On 11/22/2013 7:03 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
> On Friday, November 22, 2013 1:07:09 PM UTC-8, Kalmia wrote:
>
>
>> Same here. I buy the house brand and the dishes seem pretty darn clean to me.

> I think it all depends on how you load your dishwasher. I mean do you pre wash
>the dishes before you put them in ? If so, then you don't need a
heavy duty
> detergent. If you just do a quick scrape or rinse and there is
still food
>smears left on the dishes you need a better dishwashing detergent.
>
> I tend to just do a quick scrape and maybe a rinse if it's egg yolk but most of
>the time I just scrape and put dishes in the washer and run it when it
gets full.
>That's about once or maybe twice in a 7 day period, so food has time
to really
>dry on there.
>
> With the Cascade Complete they are sparkling clean and no residue in the
>catch basin either.

I use some Cascade tablets (whatever they're called). They do a fine
job, as did the Finish tabs I've used. I don't rinse dishes at all, and
they machine runs every 2 to 3 days. If there is ever a dirty item,
it's because maybe it wasn't loaded correctly, or it was blocked.

I hardly ever have to give anything extra attention, never the glasses
or the plates.

However, I do think that Cascade made a mistake taking the phosphates
out of the powder I used to use and pretending it still worked. One
day, dishes were coming out all cruddy and I didn't know why. My
brother's dishes were even worse, he's got hard water and his whole
machine and dishes were coated with white powder. Until I bought him
a bunch of Finish tabs, they didn't know what was going on.

nancy