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Detergent packs in the US seem to be mostly gel packs. In Germany, most tabs are simply hard pressed powder. Gel packs did fail in their cleaning function and t
by mschild 4y ago
Detergent packs in the US seem to be mostly gel packs. In Germany, most tabs are simply hard pressed powder. Gel packs did fail in their cleaning function and the recommendation generally goes for either tabs or powder, where powder can save you money because you set the dosage according to how full your dishwasher is.
- lupire 4y agoFine tuning powder per wash sounds like overoptimization. Just useing powder instead of tabs will save most of the money.
- Scoundreller 4y agoBut I save time by pouring in less when less is needed.
- oezi 4y agoPrepackaged tabs with self-disolving packaging is actually the cheapest if you assign a non-zero amount of money to your own time.
- kortex 4y agoHow much extra time does it take to dump out some powder? I don't actually measure precisely and just eyeball it. The advantage is I can dump some extra in the bay to act as pre-wash. The cost is 4-10x more for the self-dissolving packs.
- sokoloff 4y agoI looked on Amazon at Cascade powder ($0.22/oz in large packages) and the same name tablets ($0.30/tablet in large packages). A load with powder is typically 0.75 oz. ($0.165/load) or about 55% the cost, not 10-25% the cost. Being able to dump in extra for pre-wash is an advantage to powder for sure.