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I think that this advice from Technology Connections is bad advice. I was having huge problems getting my dishes clean in early-mid 2020. I thought my dishwashe
by pottertheotter 3y ago
I think that this advice from Technology Connections is bad advice. I was having huge problems getting my dishes clean in early-mid 2020. I thought my dishwasher was broken and needed to be repaired, and then it started working again.
What made it stop washing? I had switched to powdered detergent because I couldn't find pods due to COVID shortages. When I found pods again, I bought them. I've never had problems since.
- wwweston 3y agoThis doesn’t make a lot of sense to me if it’s true that pods are just water-soluble wrappers around the same detergent. Is there a case that they’re something else?
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI don’t know if this happened here, but sometimes if the soap door is time released water infiltrated the chamber and it cakes up and doesn’t release properly. My observation is this happens less often with pods likely because they don’t dissolve rapidly enough.
- exmadscientist 3y agoThe colorful liquids (or equivalent) in the pods are surfactants and other fun things that are not practical to formulate as powders. So they really do clean differently. Of course, there are other ways to formulate things, but they all have tradeoffs.
- InSteady 3y agoDishwashing powder 100% has surfactants in it.
- Izkata 3y agoI can't find any pods that are just water-soluble wrappers of the powdered detergent. All of them have additional compartments in the pods for other chemicals, and all the pods do clean a hell of a lot better than just powdered detergent. I had switched earlier this year after seeing the Technology Connections video, and I'm ready to switch back. The pods are just better.