Premature Sudsulation

[petek]

I've never experienced any excess sudsing in our dishwasher and I've used different Cascade tabs, Finish tabs of one type and another and Kirklands too.

Our city water comes straight out of Lake Huron as does Detroits, and Flints. I don't know what the hardness level is. But pretty much any city or town within 60 miles of any Great Lake should have the same water.. Interesting to see what others in the Great Lakes Basin have to say on it.

 

[easy]

Maytag dispenser

As I said earlier, I have been using Finish Powerball tabs with great results. I didn't know the dispenser allowed some water in during the initial pre rinse.

I have been in the kitchen when the dispenser opens for the main wash. I've heard the hard tab hit the bottom of the tub so I guess not much of it had been already dissolved. I think this is probably more of an issue with the Cascade pods since they are soft to begin with.

David

 

[lovestowash]

Finish

David, that's good to know, and makes sense. I bought the Powerballs and will try them tonight. When I opened the machine after about 5 minutes using Cascade, still in the pre-rinse, there were suds, and I opened the dispenser. The pod had essentially dissolved, so I suspect in the main wash, the dispenser opens, and presents nothing but water.

 

[lovestowash]

update

Running the Maytag on the "Auto" cycle, "High Temp" option, with a Powerball...no suds, and the initial rinse lasted 8-10 minutes...drained, then filled for the main wash...
heard the dispenser open, and the Powerball dropped (opened to ensure)...main wash lasted 5-6 minutes, less than the initial rinse...cycle is continuing on the "Auto" with "High Temp" option...
interesting that each rinse is longer than the main wash...oh well, at least no suds...

 

[easy]

Maytag dishwasher

"Auto wash" with the "High Temp" option is the same cycle I've used for every load.
Everything perfectly clean. I don't know if the longer rinse times are due to water heating. Compared to all my previous dishwashers, this one seems to take an absurd amount of time to complete a cycle but I've read that all new dishwashers take much longer due to the extremely low water usage.

I'll get used to the time it takes. It's not as if I'm standing in front of the machine yelling HURRY UP!

 

[askolover]

With my 1994 KUDI23 I have aborted using tabs or pods due to foaming with our softened water.  The hard Finish powerball tabs get used occasionally with crystal and work ok but I prefer chlorine based detergents since my DW was designed to work with them at the time it was built.  I use premiere powder or Palmolive eco gel...zero foam!

 

[rolls_rapide]

"but I do believe that P&G needs to get their act together."

Quite. I can't understand their thinking either. I often wonder whether the liquid portions of their pods contain bog-standard manual washing-up liquid? There's something in them which foams. And it doesn't matter how dirty the load is - it still suds up.