From Cascade fan to Finish Convert...

[gelaundry4ever]

finish ultimate

I'd gladly take the finish ultimate and its perfume smell. It freshens up my kitchen, and it doesn't leave my Tupperware smelling like detergent. Maybe mine is fully rinsed. I associate strong scents like I said with cleanliness.

 

[DADoES]

 
You've been taken by the marketing push of overly scented products.

 

[foraloysius]

Overly scented products are in reality often covering up that things are not clean. Like strong scented detergent that covers up the smell of mold in a washing machine.

 

[panasonicvac]

I don't need dishwasher detergent that smells good, I only want something that just cleans. So the Ultimate kind would be out me, I'm concerned that'll leave a very strong scent behind. The Power seems similar to the Cascade Complete so I'll probably give that one a shot. I also wouldn't mind testing out the Classic, seems to be close to the Kirkland kind but I think that's the one I didn't had real good experiences with before. I can't remember. The gel is also out because I don't want either the lemon or the orange scent. And it appears that the powder is discontinued so I won't bother about those, I know I've used the powder before but I seem to recall it wasn't the best either.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

scented products

Well, maybe I've grown up on super scented products that to elimate odors. I remember Bravo came in original scent and super scented country breeze laundry detergent. Yes, it did make the clothes smell clean. Same with the Cascade complete citrus breeze. It made the house smell fresh as well as the dishwasher.

 

[retro-man]

I have been using Finish gel with citrus scent. Truthfully I have never noticed any scent to it when the dishwasher is running or after it has completed the cycle. No smell on plastics or glasses. Does a good job on cleaning off everything.

Jon

 

[DADoES]

 
Had another plastic whipped topping bowl in a load early this afternoon.  1 tsp Cascade Complete powder (supply is almost gone) for prewash, 3 tsp Fryer Boil Out for main wash.  The bowl is perfect and proper with no scent.

The other bowl is almost clear of the Finish scent, after airing for six days.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

Finish Ultimate Scent

Well, my dishwasher is left with the fresh smell of Finish Ultimate detergent, especially after a heavy load.

 

[DADoES]

 
I found Cascade Complete powder at the nearest Target (hour distance).  Twelve 75 oz/4.68 lbs boxes in stock.  I bought six.  That oughta cover 20 years or so.

 

[combo52]

20 years worth of powdered dishwasher detergent

Hi Glenn, be sure to keep it good and dry, I had about four boxes of phosphate, powdered dishwasher detergent in the West Virginia house, and the stuff got so stale that it just doesn’t clean with the darn anymore even with a water softener.

I was starting to wonder if there was something wrong with the dishwashers, I have a KDS 16 up there and a whirlpool DU8000 just like the two that I have at home and they just weren’t producing clean dishes anymore.

I went out and bought some Kirkland pods and Aldi‘s liquid and it works beautifully, I brought all the old stale detergent back home Broke up all the lumps put it in containers and I use it for the pre-wash in the dishwashers here but I use a good pod in the main cup and it works fine.

 

[panasonicvac]

When my Cascade Complete pods run out, I'd love to try out the CC powder and see the differences. I did notice the other day at Costco that Finish had a sale for the Quantum pods which were a better value than either of the Cascade pods (Complete and Platinum) but Kirkland still had the best deal. Those are my most favorite and by far the best pods I've ever used for my KitchenAid. But once I use up those Kirkland pods, I'll go ahead and give Finish a shot.

 

[panasonicvac]

I went to Target today and founded a thing of Finish Quantum that was already opened so I gave it a sniff. WAY too much scent for my taste. I did happen to grab a sample pack of Cascade Platinum to try out and I like the smell of those pods better. Only question is how well it will handle against the smoker racks this weekend.

 

[panasonicvac]

I finally got around to it

I didn't think I was going to buy the Finish Quantum tabs after that Target experience but my aunt happened to have some already so I decided to give it a shot in my KitchenAid as it didn't costed me anything to try out. I even went to the extreme of having my dishes as dirty as they possibly can and still put it on the lightest setting since that's what we would normally do. Overall, I think it's safe to say that I founded new respect for Finish. But I do have some comments. First of all, I made the mistake of running the dishwasher while there's already some rinse aid inside as I wanted to see if it was leaving any water marks behind and of course it didn't. We have some old Cascade Complete Gel that I'm certain already expired so we had to use it up. It was leaving water marks behind even by cutting back on the detergent. So we bought some Finish Jet-Dry to try out and it was excellent. I bet that was my problem the whole time with Finish in the past. But I did noticed that it was just slightly more expensive than Cascade and supposedly should do the same job. I also noticed that some of the Quantum pods had some leaks around unlike Cascade where they don't, at least we never had that problem before. And I was very pleased that it didn't leave a scent behind, I was concerned about that part. But I didn't liked the smell of the detergent when the dishwasher was running, one of the things that I do like about better with both Cascade and Kirkland. Would I recommend Finish now? Yes. Will I switch over to Finish? Honestly, no. I'll continue to use both Cascade Complete and Kirkland, they're still my favorite to use. Speaking of Cascade Complete, I did use the Platinum pods (actually they were Platinum Plus) and I really couldn't find the difference between that and the Complete pods. Unless if I find them at a really good deal at Costco, I don't think they're worth the extra price cause we really don't need them honestly.

 

[appnut]

Not sure how I missed this thread, but I have been using Finish since I got my Bosch dishwasher May 2021. I use both Finiish Classic and Finish Quantum-for the filthiest/grimiest and it's far superior to any Cascade varieties I used. Although I think the dishwasher has somehting to do wit the far suuperior cleaning compared to my previous two Kenmore Elite dishwashers.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

to appnut

I suspect that Finish is European like Bosch.

 

[DADoES]

 
Finish is a product of Reckitt Benckiser Group, which is a British-based company with German origins.  Finish dishwasher detergent originated as Electrasol.

 

[appnut]

There were times back in 1960s where my mom bought Electrasol because it was less expensive than Cascade.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

cascade vs finish

I have found that Cascade worked best in most American dishwashers, while Finish worked best in foreign ones. Also like Cascade, it looks like Finish moved to multi-chamber designs.

 

[appnut]

I've only noticed Finish Quantum (and similar product) has multi-chamber design. The rest are on single large pod. I only use Quantum for the heaviest soiled loads. Regular Finish does an outstanding job.

 

[nmassman44]

I have been using Somat Gold in my LG dishwasher with excellent results. Our water here in FL is a tad hard and the Somat works quite well in the conditions I have here. Finish Ultimate I find has one annoying issue , at least in the pouch I bought was one of the chambers burst and as a result created this gooey mess in the bottom of the pouch…had to throw away 6 pods since they clumped together. I have used Cascade Platinum Plus and my gawd those suds up and cause cavitation in my machine in the wash cycle. It does well cleaning but hearing the pump driving the foam all over the load is concerning at times. When I say foam …I opened the door and was surprised to see the everything in the dishwasher was covered in it. Somat does not foam up and it does an excellent job cleaning and there is zero scent left behind.