Comments by "MacAdvisor" (@MacAdvisor) on "Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)" video.

  1. Having a Bosch dishwasher, I looked and, yep, there didn't seem to be a pre-rinse location for soap. Then I noticed a small grill that connected to the soap container. From what I can tell, without tearing out my dishwasher and installing a window, water, during the pre-rinse cycle, enters through the grill, travels through a short, molded tube into the soap compartment, and carries away some of the soap. I checked this theory by powering down the dishwasher after the pre-rinse cycle and opening the soap compartment. Even with the dreaded tablet, the outer coating had broken down and that implied water had enter the compartment and also left (as there wasn't water in there when I opened it). If I my be permitted to theorize, I suggest Bosch has figured out people aren't putting soap in the pre-rinse soap compartment and many people use the tablets, so have an engineered a system to work anyway in spite of people not doing as instructed. Just as Pierre de Fermat had a solution for his Last Theorem, but the margin of the book was too narrow to contain it, I believe the proof of my theory is too difficult to fit into my kitchen. I leave it to you, my esteemed teacher.
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  2. I am on the order of three time your age and grew up with dishwashers. My grandmother had one in her GE All Electric Kitchen that really was a tub and was loaded from the top. From a wee age, I was taught to wash the dished clean before putting them into the dishwasher. There simply aren't any food particles of any kind on the dishes I put in. The whole point of the dishwasher isn't to pre-clean, but simply to sanitize. I am shocked, shocked like Captain Renault at Cafe American over gambling that one would use a dishwasher to wash dishes alone.
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