Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan stood on the House floor Tuesday and bemoaned his plight to the American people, avowing "I do load and unload the dishwasher." In consequence, he was immediately and resoundingly mocked. The South Carolina lawmaker made this heartfelt admission of personal suffering duri...
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    448·
    2 months ago

    “I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, that many times I have opened the dishwasher, loaded properly, with the right amount of dishwashing liquid or pod put in, that all the dishes aren’t clean,” the orator declared.

    Hmm.

    Not really the point of the article, but that’s not really using the dishwasher in the intended fashion. Those normally use powder. Normally, liquid detergent is for hand dishwashing and pods don’t do an ideal job because they don’t dissolve and release their detergent until after the rinse cycle, whereas normally dishwashers do have a spot for putting powder used during the rinse cycle.

    Technology Connections did a video on this a while back.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04

    • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
      321·
      2 months ago

      They make liquid detergent (It’s a gel) for dishwashers. Perhaps that’s what he was talking about.

      I’m not defending the guy, I’m just saying that I’ve been using the stuff for a couple of decades. It’s made by Cascade.

      • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 months ago

        What people forget is their own water hardness. It determines how much detergent you should actually use.

      • GissaMittJobb
        4·
        2 months ago

        I believe TC made a video calling out the inadequacy of liquid dishwasher detergent, and having made the switch to powder I have to say that I agree. I used to get discoloration building up on coffee mugs with the liquid stuff, this went away right away when switching to powder.

    • qantravon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      After that video, I did try switching from pods to powder, and for my dishwasher it sucked. The powder didn’t fully dissolve, and would end up settling all over everything, requiring me to hand wash or wash them again.

      • idiomaddict@feddit.de
        5·
        2 months ago

        That’s too much powder, which can happen if your water’s not hard and you fill the space up.

        • qantravon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I tried varying amounts, no matter how little I put in it always happened. I think it’s probably an issue with our dishwasher, it’s an old, crappy apartment model and probably doesn’t work 100% correctly.

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      Also if you’re having to wash multiple times, there’s a good chance your mistake it’s not running the water until hot at the tap before running the dishwasher. First cycle is a just hot water rinse which actually does a pretty decent percentage of the debris removal. But that step works best with hot water when there is any grease or caked on food. The first cycle just uses a bit of water from the hot water line connected to it, no heater. So if your hot water line is still cold at the tap, it’s cold in the dishwasher too.

    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 months ago

      He uses liquid detergent in his extensive example and regularly has the bottle feature alongside a box of powder.

      The big difference between liquid and powder is powder allows for two different cleaning agents whereas if they both are in a liquid, they react with each other. He doesn’t bring this up in the video, but I think he mentions it in another one.

      • GissaMittJobb
        5·
        2 months ago

        Pods leave the first cycle without any detergent. Having powder allows you to provide detergent for both cycles - as intended - your dishwasher will work even better.

    • Wrench@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      Doubt liquid dishwasher detergent is the problem. He’s probably not pre-rinsing before loading them in.

      Had a dumbass roommate that had steak and fries every dinner, and would leave the grease and a massive pool of ketchup on the plate every time, then run the dishwasher days later after everything was dry. All it did was bake it onto the plates and require some heavy scrubbing to get off.