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Try turning off the "dry" cycle and letting them air dry in the dishwasher. Heaven Forbid people should actually have to resort to the barbaric method of doing dishes by hand.
The dry heat kills bacteria and germs Maggie.
We've been oversold on household bacteria, in my opinion. I own a diswasher that I run once a week; the rest of the time I do up what few dirty dishes I accumulate daily and let them air dry on the countertop, just as I've done for several decades. And I'm still alive, rarely even catching a cold, even.
Ravi, Zoom-boing's problem has nothing to do with Phosphates.
You should be happy the little red dots are gone...they were full of lead.Agriculture uses it in abundance, without regard to environmental consequence.
Why of course they do. No harm there, is there.
In the meantime, my glasses that used to look like this:
Now look like this:
Bloody freakin' HELL!
After researching I found that you can buy TSP (the real stuff, not the phosphate-free stuff) at the hardware store and just add a bit to your dish washing detergent and things will be as they were.
Enviro-nazis.
Ravi, Zoom-boing's problem has nothing to do with Phosphates.
Uh, yeah it does. They took it out last summer and the dishes have been coming out of the dishwasher cloudy, not as clean (yes, I rinse them first always have. Shouldn't have to as that's what a dishwasher is for . . . ) and generally crappy.
You should be happy the little red dots are gone...they were full of lead.Why of course they do. No harm there, is there.
In the meantime, my glasses that used to look like this:
Now look like this:
Bloody freakin' HELL!
After researching I found that you can buy TSP (the real stuff, not the phosphate-free stuff) at the hardware store and just add a bit to your dish washing detergent and things will be as they were.
Enviro-nazis.
If you were being sarcastic . . . heh.
If not? You do realize they are two different glasses, right? The first one is new and has only been washed by hand. The second one used to look as clear and clean as the first but this is what all of our stuff looks like now, after six months of phosphate-free dishwashing detergent.
I call bullshit on banning it before a fix was found.
So.... Hand washing uses more energy than a dish washer. And my time isn't worth shit to uncle so I won't even bother mentioning that.
Government, putting the cart before the horse . . . again.
So.... Hand washing uses more energy than a dish washer. And my time isn't worth shit to uncle so I won't even bother mentioning that.
Government, putting the cart before the horse . . . again.
You really need to consider having a slave......sure they're expensive, and somewhat difficult to train, but I've found that with enough beatings, by the age of 3 they can wash dishes.
You should be happy the little red dots are gone...they were full of lead.
If you were being sarcastic . . . heh.
If not? You do realize they are two different glasses, right? The first one is new and has only been washed by hand. The second one used to look as clear and clean as the first but this is what all of our stuff looks like now, after six months of phosphate-free dishwashing detergent.
I call bullshit on banning it before a fix was found.
What exactly are you drinking out of your glasses ?
Try turning off the "dry" cycle and letting them air dry in the dishwasher. Heaven Forbid people should actually have to resort to the barbaric method of doing dishes by hand.
Well...the hippies have been complaining about phosphates in detergent since the beginning of time and obviously the detergent companies didn't care since it required a mandate for them to do something about it.You should be happy the little red dots are gone...they were full of lead.Why of course they do. No harm there, is there.
In the meantime, my glasses that used to look like this:
Now look like this:
Bloody freakin' HELL!
After researching I found that you can buy TSP (the real stuff, not the phosphate-free stuff) at the hardware store and just add a bit to your dish washing detergent and things will be as they were.
Enviro-nazis.
If you were being sarcastic . . . heh.
If not? You do realize they are two different glasses, right? The first one is new and has only been washed by hand. The second one used to look as clear and clean as the first but this is what all of our stuff looks like now, after six months of phosphate-free dishwashing detergent.
I call bullshit on banning it before a fix was found.
Try turning off the "dry" cycle and letting them air dry in the dishwasher. Heaven Forbid people should actually have to resort to the barbaric method of doing dishes by hand.
Doing dishes by hand uses considerably more water and energy than using a dishwasher. I noticed this issue a few months ago, too, and thought I'd need to replace my dishwasher. What I've found is that if I rinse the dishes better AND use double soap, they come out pretty clean.
Ravi, Zoom-boing's problem has nothing to do with Phosphates.
Uh, yeah it does. They took it out last summer and the dishes have been coming out of the dishwasher cloudy, not as clean (yes, I rinse them first always have. Shouldn't have to as that's what a dishwasher is for . . . ) and generally crappy.
Sounds like hard water and calcium deposits.
You should be happy the little red dots are gone...they were full of lead.Agriculture uses it in abundance, without regard to environmental consequence.
Why of course they do. No harm there, is there.
In the meantime, my glasses that used to look like this:
Now look like this:
Bloody freakin' HELL!
After researching I found that you can buy TSP (the real stuff, not the phosphate-free stuff) at the hardware store and just add a bit to your dish washing detergent and things will be as they were.
Enviro-nazis.
Ravi, Zoom-boing's problem has nothing to do with Phosphates.
Ravi, Zoom-boing's problem has nothing to do with Phosphates.
Huh?
So six months or so ago I forgot to fill up the rinse agent dispenser in the dishwasher. It was empty for about a week when I realized it. Things weren't getting as clean but the glasses in particular looked like crap. A white coating of something on them that hand washing wasn't removing. I've been making sure that damn little dispenser thingy has been topped up full for the past six months and guess what? The dishes still look and feel like crap. So I thought that maybe the dishwasher was breaking and I started looking stuff up online.
My dishwasher is just peachy but the greenies have done it again, as uncle has banned phosphate in dish detergents. Well color me in the dark on this one. Phosphate was the main cleaning ingredient in dish washing soap. They banned it from laundry detergents back in the 90's. I always thought it was my machine putting little holes in the clothes. Think again.
Now I'm all for keeping pollution down to as little impact on the environment as possible. BUT . . . why did they ban it when there is no substitute for it? I'm now using more energy and water to clean my dishes because now things will have to be wash and/or rewashed in vinegar/hot water/dish soap to try and get the film off. Hand washing uses more energy than a dish washer. And my time isn't worth shit to uncle so I won't even bother mentioning that.
Government, putting the cart before the horse . . . again.
I'm sure if I read through this thread, someone will have already told you that only certain states ban phosphates (and for good reason). You may miss the phosphates in your laundry or dishwasher cycles, but what if you had no clean water? Which would you miss the most?
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All 50 states have taken it out of dishwashing detergent.
So the water that drains and go back to the treatment plant, gets treated, nearly all of the water comes out the other end clean, but they ban it.
Agriculture uses it in fertilizer . . . is it banned there? No. Does it go through any treatment after they use it? No. Does it leech through the ground into lakes/streams, etc. ? Yep.
That they want to keep the small amount that may remain after treatment out of water ways is terrific. But they banned it before any good, usable fix was found. Typical.
You should be happy the little red dots are gone...they were full of lead.Why of course they do. No harm there, is there.
In the meantime, my glasses that used to look like this:
Now look like this:
Bloody freakin' HELL!
After researching I found that you can buy TSP (the real stuff, not the phosphate-free stuff) at the hardware store and just add a bit to your dish washing detergent and things will be as they were.
Enviro-nazis.
Living in an area where there's an annual infestation of ladybugs, if I had picked up that glass, it would have crashed to the floor in horror! (No offense intended, Zoom.)
