D/W Tablets

[beekeyknee]

When you use one of those pre-determined blocks or squares of detergent, you can't regulate the amount of detergent used during any particular wash cycle of your D/W. When you have a water softener you're supposed to use less detergent during a wash cycle to prevent etching and rainbow effect on your dishes from using too much detergent. How is a person supposed to accomplish this with pre-measured amounts. Don't buy it, right?
Convenience isn't for people with water softeners I guess?

 

[roscoe62]

D/W Tablets

I use them and love them but I only run a full load of dishes in the machine and have very soft water.
I guess it's manufactured with the "Full Load" premise to keep us from running our machines "Half Full", not to be sarcastic here.
Friends of mine run their machine daily, but with three children I guess it's a normal days work and they have the same water and no issues with this product.

 

[labboy]

I don't love them...

I think there should be detergent in both the prewash and main wash cycles for normal/heavily soiled loads.

With the tablets, all of the detergent gets dispensed into the main wash part of the cycle. (Unless one splits the tablets, which is a pain.) With the PowerBall tablets, there is also excessive foaming in the main wash with softened water.

Once this canister is done, I'm switching back to powder.

 

[jerrod6]

Sort of not a fan of tabs which are only placed in the main wash...however the prewash for most cycles on my DW only lasts 12 minutes and it is unheated which means the DW mostly gets cool/cold water which is not that great with detergent anyway.

If I have a smaller, lightly soiled load, want to use a tab and I cannot easily split it I put in a baggie and smash and bang it with a meat cleaver. Then put a small amount in the prewash, the rest in the main wash. Almost all of my loads are full and soiled(sitting for at least two days) so I usually just put the tab in the main wash cycle.