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I did my dishes by hand for a month and than used dishwasher for a month . My water bill was cheaper with rhe dishwasher.

Tawra, thank you! I appreciate the time you have taken to do all these different comparisons of laundry soaps, dishwashing soaps. Maybe you could donate some of the extra supplies to different agencies, like homeless shelters or something. By the way, I don’t care how you pronounce something. I’m just thankful for what you do

We used them all. Our favorite by far is walmarts Great value powdered detergent. Cost savings, completly clean dishes, no horrific odor or fumes. We hate pod anything whether laundry or dishes, coffee. A real waste not being able to control the amount you want to use.

I use the dollar tree brand. 10/1.25. I use a rinse aid. They work really well.

We use the Dollar Tree dishwasher pods! Works great! 👏👏👏👍💞

The dishwasher pods have 3 different agents in them- detergent, rinse aid, and additives . I prefer the gel dishwasher detergent, but I also buy a rinse agent. With the gel, I can put a drop on top of the dish soap dispenser, and it gives the pre- rinse a boost. I had to go online to read the instructions for my dishwasher, as these machines don’t seem to come with instructions anymore.🌺

@pamrymanowicz293

Ай бұрын

I don't by rinse aid. I use vinegar in a upright cup on top shelf. It makes them sparkle too

I have that same dishwasher. It does an amazing job. I want to try a load with no soap. I don’t even rinse dishes. I just scrape off food. Comes out perfect almost every time.

@SirWtfcharles

Ай бұрын

That's how they suggest you do it so your dishes don't get etched

The last time I had to have the plumber come and clean out my pipes, he told me to not use those pods they clog up pipes. And he proved it when he got to the clog in my pipes, it was clogged with the pod residue. He said to only use powdered dishwasher detergent. The pods don''t completely dissolve.

@pamelaspencer6507

27 күн бұрын

Didn't know that, thanks !💗

I love these videos Tawra! So far the lesson Ive learned is that we Americans spend way to much time and money on brand names cleaning supplies. There may be differences, but for the most part the differences are slight.

If people pre rinsed and kept good maintenance on dish washer the basic dishwasher soap works!!!!!

We had the pods w Dawn in them, left dishes dirty. Watched vids on what to use and learned different machines need different products. Found the CHEAP GV liquid works great! Scrape, load, everything clean and shiny, unless baked on casserole stuff on dish left out all night. Must remember to run hot water before turning on the machine.

@DabblelyDiddly

8 күн бұрын

that walmart liquid works so well for the dirt cheap price. been using it for years

I've used a dishpan my entire life. I only run the water to rinse. I knew that was bunk. Thanks for proving it.

People are washing dishes by hand differently now. They don't fill the sink and wash, put it on the rack and rinse a bunch. They now wash and rinse each dish letting the water run the whole time. What a wasteful way to do it.

@Zorro-5515

Ай бұрын

🇨🇦I've really noticed that a lot. I figured it must just be in USA. Our water bill would be huge. It's already over 100.00/month.

@vintagebeliever5023

Ай бұрын

I notice that... i could never. Our water bill would be crazy.

@nance8885

Ай бұрын

I had no idea.

@stacymontero6172

6 күн бұрын

I do all the hand washing. If I let my husband do it, we'd be broke. He runs the water the whole time and washes one dish at a time.

It’s hard to test these because it depends on your water hardness. You need something more concentrated like Cascade Platinum or Finish Quantum for harder water conditions I’ve learned over the years. But for soft water plus using rinse aid, less is more!! The Cascade Complete is almost just as good as their higher end Platinum series, just a few less chemicals they use in it is all. Awesome video!!

@moneystrategiesforlife

Ай бұрын

Absolutely right. How hard your water is makes a huge difference in what detergent works best.

@emmelia-6068

Ай бұрын

Yes. We have very hard water and need to use Cascade Platinum and a rinse aid. It really does make a difference. Maybe like how some cars run better with better gas..?

Thank you Tawra for these videos. I love them. I remember that as a kid, the back of the Tide box gave instructions on how much laundry detergent to use for washing dishes. I remember using it when we ran out of dish soap.

Runny egg yolk is the hardest thing to get off in the dishwasher.

Cascade tends to discolor my aluminum pans. I use finish power. But I think I'm going to try the homemade. Thanks for doing these!

Thank you for doing this comparison!

Good to know! Also, thanks for the homemade recipe!

I don't have a dishwasher, so I do handwash all my dishes. I do turn my water off, or down to a trickle, as I wash things & try to rinse more than one item at a time. Even if I did have a dishwasher, a lot of my dishes are antiques, vintage, depression, or crystal which I would not run through one. I have not had or used a dishwasher in over 30 years & the one we had was a portable one that ended up being used as an additional cupboard & countertop cutting board surface. My current kitchen does not have the floor space for one as it is a galley kitchen.

I always wash my dishes by hand, even though we have a dishwasher. I just prefer to do my dishes by hand.

@stst77

Ай бұрын

Same here. I even lived in an apartment with free utilities and a dishwasher but I just preferred washing by hand. However not all people feel that way. My sister is repulsed by hand washing because she feels it doesn’t sanitize the dishes enough. She will eat off a paper plate before eating off a plate washed by hand. I’ve heard others share the same sentiments so just be aware not everyone will want to drink out of your cups if they find out you wash by hand.

I love your cleaning comparison’s on everything you try. Yes the prices are ridiculous. I’ve started using the homemade and always use the rinse aid. Otherwise my dishes and my dishwasher look like there is a residue on everything. Have a wonderful weekend.

Great video! I've never had a dishwasher and I'm 55. I did enjoy the video though. I use dawn and wash the dishes as my sink fills up. Then I use that water to wash the counters, appliances, etc.

Tawra, that was too funny using the laundry pods.😂

@LivingOnADime

Ай бұрын

Oh man...I just kept thinking....I'm never using this one it stinks to high heaven!

How well your dishwasher works and the temperature of your water are bigger factors than soap in my experience. We have had three different dishwashers and our current one is so good we can put the dirtiest dried on dishes in there with any detergent and the dishes come out great every time. Previous dishwasher (more expensive too), needed the hot water to be turned up so high and only cleaned well with certian detergents.

Thanks for another helpful video. I sometimes wash dishes by hand. I have a double sink so I run a partial sink of hot soapy water to wash the dishes in. I use very little cold water in the other side of the sink to rinse the dishes afterwards. Like you, I use very little water to wash & rinse dishes.

Great video, Tawra. We are downsizing and designing a new kitchen... I'm not going to have a dishwasher. Actually, I'm looking forward to washing all dishes by hand. At the moment we don't use our dishwasher very much . I just wash up breakfast dishes lunch etc after each meal. In our country we dont pay extra for water but i am careful with how much we use. consume

Great video! We’ve done the Aldi dishwasher packs to be as good as Cascade for much less, and we also have hard water.

Tawra I was wondering what brand of dishwasher do you have? Thank you for all the videos you do!

Thank you for doing all of this work. I feel like I never stop doing dishes with our family so I'm very interested in this video. I have become so annoyed that I mostly can only find tabs and pods, I much more prefer powder and can customize use depending on how dirty the dishes are and can really get more bang for my buck.

Good for you ❤❤❤😊🎉😮

Can you come up with homemade rinse aid ? I’m loving these videos.

Who on Earth would leave the water running while they wash dishes?!

loved seeing the shininess! I'm hella basic. I just like to soap my dishes up with a soapy sponge, put them in the dishwasher, and put a liquid dab of Cascade in there. I've lived in my current apartment 2.5 years and still have the full heavy liquid Cascade. I run the dishwasher on one load a day or every few days. When my spouse washes dishes, the faucet is running the whole time and there's always dirt that i find. I just like putting them in the machine and that my spouse takes them out.

I have very hard water here in Las Vegas. I used the cascade platinum. I do notice a difference when i don't use it. I know it cost more but its one of the rare times its worth it. I stock up on them when they are on sale.

When there are really good deals on pods, I stock up but I like liquid dishwasher detergent too. Over a year ago I was able to over 20 packs of 18 count finish tabs for about $5 out of pocket. Been using those up

My Bosch says to use Finish but we prefer the cascade platinum with lemon scent. I wanted to try the Kirkland brand but they get bad reviews online. lol @ the oops with the laundry soap. 😂

Your dishes were all clean though. You have to think if you had greasy pots and more dirty soiled dishes you would have had to taken more time and water to get them clean also.

Cascade used to make a platinum plus bleach pod that I loved because it got rid of coffee/tea stains in mugs and other types of stains. I was so disappointed when they stopped a couple of years ago.

Great value powder always worked good for me. I tried dollar tree powder but after a few loads they were gross so I switched back. I did find a mega box of Finish hard tablets for a good price at Ollie's. Those work well too, especially with teens doing the dishes.

Actually, something like Nutella will easily melt off the plate due to the hot water. The one thing that I have found that none of them seem to be able to get off of a plate is DRIED egg yolks.

@crystalh1402

Ай бұрын

Oh that’s so true about egg yolks

I use Costco dishwasher pods and vinegar as a rinse aid and my dishes are spotless every time

That was so funny about the laundry pacs in there!! They make the font so small! For others, don’t ever use laundry pacs in the dishwasher because they are designed to get sudsy, and it will oversuds the dishwasher which puts a lot of strain on the motor. I use the Cascade Platinum Plus for my horrible city water, best thing that helps keeps the spotting away that I’ve found and the scent is incredible.

I think it’s the dishwasher and hot water (plus the over 3-hour wash time) more than the detergent. I got a new Kitchenaid dishwasher a year ago to replace the same brand that died after 18 years (wouldn’t heat water, so gave an error message). I’ve only used Kroger cheapo pods and every load has come out spotless with one exception (peanut butter is the only thing that defeated it by leaving slight streaks on knives used to spread it). I only remove stuck-on egg yolk and mash potato remains and won’t purposely leave grease.

I have a very deep left side to my twin sink. When I do dishes by hand I use a very large Tupperware bowl to wash and stack in the right side to rinse off at a trickle. By no means do I use a lot of water this way.

Might be true regarding the water IF you leave water on instead of turning off when rinsing. Could be less if you wash & rinse all at once, or fill sink & dip to rinse. Kind of depends on how you rinse I would think

I wash dishes like your mom did in your how to hand wash dishes.

If you have a newer dish washer almost any dish washer detergent works. We have noticed if you have an older dish washer the cascade plus drops work better or replacing your dish washer.

I use some eco brand. But it's because my mom got it for me. Free is great. 😂 i have never noticed a difference in the cleaning power of the dish detergents. It didn't really matter if I tried the expensive or store brands. If the cascade is on sale and I have an ibotta deal, I'll get it. Otherwise, I go store brand

I opted out on a dishwasher and chose to put in a cabinet instead. How about an update video on things like how to store water from the tap or filtered water….if toilets won’t flush if things get THAT bad what to do?

Some of your first few tests showed streaks or fogging on the clear glassware...

I fear some of these that are so strong will eventually remove the glaze from the dishes. Maybe save them for special cases?

You using a laundry pod in the dishwasher made me laugh as this is something I would totally do ( I’m very easily distracted). The only reason I avoid incidences like this is because I keep similar things completely separate. My vitamins and medicine upstairs and our pet medicine downstairs (don’t ask why I started doing this 😂), dishwasher tabs in kitchen and dishwashing pods in laundry room, bleach in basement and vinegar/water mixture in bathroom, salt in a specific well-labelled small container in the kitchen cupboard and sugar in the basement pantry in a much larger container… everything similar is well separated at my house, lol.

You have to include RINSING of the dishes to the water consumed. The dishwasher rinses and so you must too.

@LivingOnADime

Ай бұрын

I did rinse them.

@pam9426

Ай бұрын

Watch video again she did.

I have problems with anything red. If I do not completely rinse off tomato sauces, my white dishes will have a red stain after washing. I will have to scrub by hand to remove. I've used various brands. Also, i can't leave any trace of food on silverware, they will come out with brown stains. So, bottom line, i need to do a lot of pre rinsing by hand before i use my dishwasher. 🙁

@verawyatt3595

Ай бұрын

@@Jean.A.squirrel Yep, just like I mentioned above. Doing dishes is like doing the laundry. Lots of pretreating, no matter what the product claims it can do.

I have never understood why people when they are hand washing their dishes leave the tap running. And for the person who corrects the way Tawra says wash, don’t move to Indiana, where we worsh our deeshes in the zinc!

@diannthomas7849

Ай бұрын

Im such a terrible offender. I guess I'll try to get better.

@M.L.E.85

Ай бұрын

@@diannthomas7849 I think we’ve all done things that with time and wisdom. When we learn better, we do better. I happen to live in a part of the United States that is facing a water shortage because the water we are owed contractually is being held hostage by Mexico. I know what it is to be under water restriction, so I try to be as conservative as I can, but I think for most Americans, we have really never lived in a time of want like those who were in the great depression did. There probably are a handful of people who were of age during the great depression alive today who truly get it, and I think that we, as a nation, are going to be in for a very rude awakening with shortages, rationing and prices that are outrageously outrageous.

@SusannB

Ай бұрын

While looking over yonder out the winda. Hoosier all the way😂

@M.L.E.85

Ай бұрын

@@SusannB and if we-uns is really hard up, we worsh 'em in the crick! 🤗❤️ Howdaya like them damatas? 😉

It's a toss up between Cascade and Dollar General brand. How's mom!

You need dried on tomato sauce

Another thing I do is a wash bucket, then rinse water running. So...that would be less water for sure. So big lie on there I think.

Thank I knew it was a lie

"Warsh"? Really? 🤨😇

@LivingOnADime

Ай бұрын

You must not get out much.

The Walmart cleans well,but always leaves a white residue on my dishes. Maybe you can’t see that because you have white plates.

@LivingOnADime

Ай бұрын

It doesn't leave it on my nonwhite stuff. Probably your water isn't hot enough.

It's very expensive, but Cascade was the best

Worsh 😂

It's not wersh but wash, and it's not handwershing and dishwershing...

@user-ym9il3np9z

Ай бұрын

It depends on what part of the country you’re from

@noname-nr4iy

Ай бұрын

wow... My mother lived in a rural part of the country where everyone said that...

@Cecilia24645

Ай бұрын

Is it really that big of a deal?

@LivingOnADime

Ай бұрын

really? Might I suggest you get out more.

@diannthomas7849

Ай бұрын

Wow, such a rude comment.

Worsh 😂