> It wouldn't surprise me if more modern machines are designed more with tablets in mind than powder. Yeah in comparison ours is a high-end Bosch model that's

> It wouldn't surprise me if more modern machines are designed more with tablets in mind than powder. Yeah in comparison ours is a high-end Bosch model that's just a few years old. It has sensors which supposedly detect how dirty the water is and whatnot. Would be interesting to do a comparison. For us the main kicker was less of the troubling chemicals. We could have lived with the reduction in washing power had those metrics been inverted.