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Technology Connections' videos are a bit long for my taste. This one and its follow up really only have a few takeaways: Dirt sensors might mean that deliberat
by 0cVlTeIATBs 3y ago
Technology Connections' videos are a bit long for my taste. This one and its follow up really only have a few takeaways:
Dirt sensors might mean that deliberately leaving crud on the dishes (rather than rinsing first in the sink) leads to longer and better washes
Run your kitchen sink hot water a little before starting to get warmer water into the dishwasher
The first cycle is just water, before the detergent tray pops open, so put detergent into the pre-wash tray or just straight into the tub to make it do more cleaning in that cycle
But don't put two pods in, i.e. one in the detergent tray, and another detergent pod into the tub because these pods are very concentrated and harsh and will damage plates. Only add a little extra powder
- ramraj07 3y agoI really don't understand why people espouse this channel. If you watch it for entertainment sure, I suppose this video is better than watching some guys video essay about Man of Steel, but if I just want to learn about something asking me to watch 30 minutes of drivel makes no sense.
- fortran77 3y agoDifferent people have different tastes. I like his videos.
- legobridge 3y agoI love his videos. They are not tutorials and so do not need to be concise and to the point. They are video essays from which I learn many things in a good amount of detail, and i have a fun time doing it because he writes entertaining scripts.
- p1necone 3y agoI almost always learn things for fun, not because I'm deliberately trying to better myself (turns out self improvement comes easily for me when I don't overthink things). I'd much rather watch a 30 minute video that's entertaining and teaches me something than skim read a document for a few minutes. He also tends to go into all sorts of interesting tangents that I probably wouldn't have even found out about if I was researching this stuff myself.
- Turskarama 3y agoMost youtube videos stop at the "what", whereas his also go into the "how" and "why". Some of us are interested in answering those questions. Learning how's and why's also gives you tools to think about future things you encounter as well. You get a greater understanding of the world.
- virtue3 3y agoI think his videos go much deeper into topics I didn't realize I cared about and I find them fascinating for it. It's not about the destination it's about the journey.
- eru 3y ago> Run your kitchen sink hot water a little before starting to get warmer water into the dishwasher Note: this only makes sense in the US (or wherever else it's common for your dishwasher not to heat its own water). > But don't put two pods in, i.e. one in the detergent tray, and another detergent pod into the tub because these pods are very concentrated and harsh and will damage plates. Only add a little extra powder I'm not sure damaging your plates is the reason to avoid the extra pod. Plates are often made of some glass-like or ceramic-like material and not that easily damaged by chemicals.
- stdbrouw 3y agoDon't know about the pods, but for a while we used DIY dishwashing powder with soda crystals as the main ingredient, and after a while you could definitely notice slight scratching of glassware, and any printing would fade pretty heavily. Not sure if that's a chemical process or simply the abrasiveness of the powder.
- eru 3y agoOh, dishwashers are definitely hard on printing on glasses. I'm not sure about scratches. I can imagine you would get scratches if your detergent (especially crystals) doesn't completely dissolve? I mean, people even sometimes use sugar as a scrubbing agent. Dissolved sugar can't scratch anything, but sugar crystals can.
- maxerickson 3y agoIt's likely chemical. https://www.maytag.com/blog/kitchen/how-to-prevent-etching-glasses-in-dishwashers.html https://www.maytag.com/blog/kitchen/how-to-prevent-etching-g...
- squokko 3y ago> this only makes sense in the US (or wherever else it's common for your dishwasher not to heat its own water). American dishwashers heat their own water too - I think this is for cases when the dishwasher has a time limit on how long it will spend heating up the water (perhaps to meet expectations on cycle length).
- ericjmorey 3y agoAlso, try using less soap. Too much soap can interfere with the cleaning or leave soap residue.
- lolinder 3y agoFWIW, his videos are long because they're not designed to convey a few practical takeaways—they're usually deep dives into the way that the tech works, and he gets into all kinds of details that aren't useful if all you want is the tl;dr "what should I do with this" information. However, those details are exactly why I follow his channel! I'm a million times more confident repairing my own appliances than I was before I found his videos, and it's not because he has videos on how to repair my specific appliances, it's because his deep dives into a wide variety of appliances have given me a good intuition for how these kinds of machines work.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoHe also shows off good features that are worth owning, making us more confident buyers as well. For instance I feel his video on smoke detectors should be required viewing to any responsible homeowner/renter. And he showcases the decline/lack of adoption of proper features in consumer appliances, i.e. all toasters should be variations of the Sunbeam T-20B IMO.
- lolinder 3y agoYes! I actually found him through his Sunbeam toaster videos after my wife and I inherited one—I wanted to better understand how it works. They're every bit as cool as he says.
- scruple 3y agoI've seen a handful of his videos but not the one on smoke detectors. I replaced our batteries this week (once one of them chirps and I hear it, I replace them all, or else they end up with drastically different states of battery power -- which is at least a little bit funny... How do they all not drain power at a similar rate?) and it got me thinking about how very little I understand about these critical devices.
- dotancohen 3y ago> How do they all not drain power at a similar rate? I do not know if each smoke detector drains power at a similar rate (maybe some are in hotter or colder locations in the house), but I do know that the total energy in each battery can vary as well.
- aeternum 3y ago>But don't put two pods in, i.e. one in the detergent tray, and another detergent pod into the tub because these pods are very concentrated and harsh and will damage plates. Only add a little extra powder This is a strange optimization choice. I'd much rather replace plates slightly more often vs. spend time each night handwashing or rinsing dishes. My philosophy is to put everything in the dishwasher regardless of 'diswasher safe'. If it breaks, I replace it with some other dish/cup brand. In a short time you are left with durable cook and glassware that the dishwasher can clean by itself.
- mtsr 3y agoThere’s also doubling the environmental impact of already pretty nasty dishwasher detergent.
- chongli 3y agoDishwasher pods are a lot worse than powder. The pods contain plastic which dissolves in the water. The powder used to contain phosphates (which caused a major disruption to aquatic ecosystems) but doesn’t anymore.
- tomatocracy 3y agoInterestingly I believe in many countries (but not the USA) phosphates were removed from laundry detergent but not dishwasher detergent.
- Propelloni 3y agoJust as a data point, in the EU phosphates in dishwasher detergents are banned since 2017. Laundry detergents are phosphate-free since 2013. All other detergents are limited to some amount, but I can't find which. As it is often the case in the EU these regulations are aimed at consumer level products. Industrial level products are regulated differently, if at all. I don't know details.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago
- bozhark 3y agogood dishwashers heat their own water
- thfuran 3y agoBut not for the pre-wash cycle.