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Did you know you can just put detergent in the main compartiment? Why do you need such cassettes? Normally diswashers have something that dispenses it at a part
by Aardwolf 6y ago
Did you know you can just put detergent in the main compartiment? Why do you need such cassettes? Normally diswashers have something that dispenses it at a particular point in the cycle though. It's a simple mechanism, no complex electronics involved in that either.
- Bancakes 6y agoAuthor states cassettes dispense measured quantities at different times of the washing procedure.
- jeroenhd 6y agoYou don't really want that though, because the water from the first cycle is washed away relatively quickly. For good results, there's two releases of detergent, one for the pre wash and one for the main cycle. Detergent pods have kind of ruined the general dual compartment dishwashing ecosystem, though.
- BillinghamJ 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04
- ajdude 6y agoI was about to post this. Highly recommend it for anyone interested in dishwasher efficiency.
- OJFord 6y agoPretty much lost me on the presentation; finally lost me on 'these things completely fly in the face of the way most dishwashers are designed to work'. Uh, what? Must be a US thing, whatever the alternative is, because that's (those detergent, salt, perfume, whatever else tablets in a water-soluble wrapper are) all I've ever known. (UK.)
- davewasthere 6y agoWorth checking your dishwasher though. Ditto, that's all I knew in UK (although I mostly hand-washed). But even here in Aus now, there's a little compartment for pre-wash/rinse detergent... but nobody is aware of it that I've come across. That youtube video was revelationary!
- OJFord 6y agoRinse aid? Yeah that goes next to the tablet under a little flap. Supermarkets sell it, usually blue. Is that what the video was about? That tablets 'fly in the face of how dishwashers are supposed to work' because you also need rinse aid? That's nonsense, how every dishwasher I've used has been supposed to work is you keep the salt topped up, the rinse aid topped up, and (supposedly optionally) use a tablet with each wash.
- jeroenhd 6y agoNo, not rinse aid. The video discusses the way dishwashers work; most of them have two distinct cycles, one spraying off most of the loose food, draining the tub, and then another, which has its water recycled. Most dishwashers are designed to have a little detergent in the first cycle and then most in the second cycle. The detergent from the first cycle becomes available to the water immediately, the detergent for the second cycle is the part that you put in the compartment. If you want to know the details, watch the rest of the video. Or, if you don't want to do that, read your dish washer's manual. Maybe yours was designed without to forego detergent in the first cycle, because people have switched to pods anyway. Maybe it wasn't, and you can get a hygiene boost by using powder instead of pods. If you use detergent pods, one of your cycles won't run with anything but water. If you put the detergent in the tub, the longer, second cycle runs without detergent. If you put the pod in the little compartment, the first cycle is much less effective than it can be. Many machines are still designed for powder or gel detergents that you put into both compartments. You can get the same dishwasher performance by using two dishwasher tablets per run (one in the tub and one in the compartment) but that'll use up way more detergent than you actually need. Rinse aid is for maintaining your dishwasher, that's something different entirely.
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- cigaser 6y agoThere are like 5 stages, each requires different amount. It is well explained here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04