I was talking with someone at work about how good of a job we do in loading the dishwasher. When I do it, I think I do a reasonably good job. He probably does the dishes more frequently, but he said that he doesn't usually bother rinsing them before putting them into the dishwasher. Then he mentioned a commercial that has intrigued me in the past. He pointed out that at least in some scenarios you can wash a cake in the dishwasher, so why rinse?
I don't know if everyone remembers this but a couple of years ago Cascade started marketing a detergent called Cascade Complete. In one of the commercials they placed an entire angel food cake into a dishwasher then showed that it disappeared after going through a full wash cycle.
The commercial was effective in that I was impressed that a detergent could do that. It was ineffective in that I could never remember which detergent the commercial was for. I would expect that the packaging would say something to the effect of, "This detergent dissolves a cake!" How can you get people to buy something when they don't remember what it is?
In looking around the Internet I actually found a web page detailing how someone tried to duplicate the commercial with mixed success. Maybe it will be worth trying Cascade Complete out some time. It may have trouble actually dissolving a cake, but in our house it shouldn't need to.
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Sounds like it would might leave a huge mess in the dishwasher. I don't know if I would want to waste a good angel food cake just for this experiment.
Don't cakes belong in the oven? I think you have your appliances mixed up! :)
With my lack of rinsing, I need a good detergent.
just to clarify ... was this a discussion about an actual dishwasher that you have at work??? Or did you actually participate (by chance) in a work-place conversation about dish washing?
You could give BB some pointers on how to rinse dishes before going into the dishwasher. But I am not complaining, at least he loads and unloads the dishwasher willingly.
My wife has always been insistent on "pre-washing" and at first I resisted. But then I realized that, since we don't run the dishwasher every day (it usually takes 3 days to fill up,) failing to rinse will cause the dishwasher to smell bad by the time we need to run it.
To the earlier question: Yes, this was a workplace conversation about doing the dishes at home.
Dishwashers here require a separate filling of salt in a special compartment periodically - separate from soap or rinsing agent. I've tried to short circuit this by bying the tablets that supposedly have all 5 (5??) needed ingredients. I buy cheap ones - sometimes they are just the dissolved powder stuck to the outside of my sterilized dishes. Maybe I should spend more.
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