I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it | Technology Connections
I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it | Technology Connections
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The price of the eco-friendly detergent they're advertising is way too high to justify (17x the cost of my store brand). It's cool to know that a more powerful powder is possible, though.
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Have to agree, it's cool that they donate 100% of their profits, but I can't really justify the cost of that stuff compared to bog standard cascade powder.
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They put the ingredients on the box. You can just mix your own. That's what I'm doing.
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I was so disappointed to see how expensive it is. I want to buy, I was prepared for it to be more expensive, and supporting charity is great. But they can't make it only say 3x the cost of competitors and still donate some profits to charity?
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As someone who doesn't watch this guy, what's the TL;DR?
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Purging cold water from the pipes to your dishwasher with hot water before using it (by running the kitchen faucet on hot) can dramatically increase cleaning efficiency (Edit: though depending on if your dishwasher preheats the pre-rinse water with the heating element, may be a waste of water).
Powder detergent is better than pods because it allows you to put detergent in the pre-rinse cycle, and avoids adding microplastics to the water supply (the pods are contained in a dissolveable plastic).
The different modes on a washer can dramatically change its behavior and effectiveness (but seems to use a lot more water to do so).
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I really wish powder detergent worked with the fucking rock hard water we have here, but it creates a godawful crust on everything on the first wash. I just use an enzyme based liquid detergent instead, and it works perfectly well if I otherwise follow the same steps he recommends.
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I knew the pods were sus. It's dissolveable plastic around them? Fucking excellent idea, right after leaded gas!
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He pinned a comment in the Connextras video pointing out that if you’ve have a decent dishwasher (yeah, I know he says any dishwasher works, but I’m an appliance elitist), running the water beforehand is probably a waste of resources as they have heaters in them. He alludes to this in the Connextras video too, noting that the water temp was rising.
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Yeah but pods are delicious.
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Thanks ProdigalFrog! Good to know. I switched to pods a while back since they seemed to work better, but going on the conversation I may have to try the vinegar method.
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This man does not understand the meaning of "no effort".
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"No effort", adjective, 1. A state of ease, i.e. a thing not requiring effort. 2. Alt., the state of spending months researching, testing, and involving lab work from dozens of people confirming an earlier niche hypothesis and to develop a new product, wiring "blinkin lights", running multiple experiments and make a 40 minute video showcasing all of this, i.e. a thing requiring more effort than is remotely reasonable.
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Oh my god the legend dropped another 45 minute long dishwasher video. Unironically stoked.
two 46 min videos. check connextras.
sir, a second dishwasher pod video has hit the channel
I was just informed on another thread there are 5 dishwasher related ones.
Babe, 90 minutes of Alex just dropped!