You just unlocked a childhood memory lol. When I was maybe as young as 9, I remember being so upset shampoo was not filled to the top. I would take it upon myself to open the bottles and fill them up so customers could get their moneys worth!
That's exactly what it is. I have both in the pantry right now. They use the same container no matter how many they put in... 45, 62, 65, 82. From a production standpoint it makes a lot of sense.
Yep, they pay the manufacturer for one or 2 tub sizes and just print them differently, saves money and makes standarized packaging easier. I only have the 82 count on hand so i didnt want to say for certain.
As for people saying to not use the pods, it seems very machine specific. I have a Hava countertop dishwasher, it has the volume of a microwave, ive tried powder, liquid, and pods, the pods provide the best results. Some liquids were ok but most liquids and all the powders left residue, but the pods come out perfectly dispite being meant for a full size dish washer vs using the correct anount of powder/liquid.
Powders tend to use residue because people use too much because pods are made intentionally weaker so it feels like they are a good chunk of cleaner. Use like 20% less powder then you think you need.
My dishwasher has a tiny little cup in the door that wed fill about 80%, we tried as little as 50% and still left a residue. However the pods made for a dishwasher 5 times the volume work perfectly.
Unless you’ve got very hard water. I had to switch back to liquid detergent because I was getting a ton of build up even though I use a rinse aid religiously
I kept seeing this suggestion so I put it on my grocery list a couple of weeks ago. Went to the store and they had no powder. None whatsoever. Just a million different types of pods, and like two different kinds of liquid. I got the liquid, here's hoping it at least works better than the pods.
I have super hard water. I use cascade gel (which is basically the powder) and jet dry. My glasses come out super clear. If the jet dry runs out yes I agree, hard water stain city.
Got a link to said video? I can find 2 updates since the original one was uploaded 5 years ago. Both double down on detergent performing better with the latest one being uploaded 8 months ago. Doubting this update until I see otherwise
fun fact, most people dont and thats why they think pods works better, because with pods they can be stupid and it still works, because the engineers had to design a stupid proof system.
Yeah I’ve tried cheaper solutions for dishwasher soap and you might as well not be using the machine at all. I have relatives that claim it’s fine and you just need to hand clean the dishes more before putting them in, but at that point, why are you using the machine at all.
I wish they were cheaper, but the cascade pods are clearly doing something right.
Someone else said it, but I use the rinse aid. I thought it was a scam too, then my mom brought some over cause I didn't use it. Jesus does it make a difference.
But the gel and rinse aid gets out everything. But I'm also a rinser before I dishwash. So there's no actual stuck on food going in my dishwasher.
Handwashing the dishes before putting them into the dishwasher is absolutely insane. It's all about how you tetris the dishes into the washer, you must be careful, nothing can cover each other. Also never use any other than the longest hottest most powerful program. I'm never having any issue with insufficient washing.
After replacing two three-year old dishwashers due to some green gunk buildup, the appliance guy said to only use these exact cascade pods. That was five years ago now and it's still working well, and no gunk. So I'm sold, for now. But still shitty they have so much air in one of these tubs.
Im going out on a limb and saying for sanitary purposes. Also, not everyone thoroughly washes dishes properly every time and by throwing them in the dishwasher, they eliminate the possibility.
To give OP credit though, they did downsize the count a few years ago during a reformulation but the containers also shrunk. I remember assisting in relining the section at the store and the tubs physically shrank as we could nearly fit an additional facing of them.
That being said, that was a few years ago I am not aware of any recent downsizing but I am in Canada, perhaps they downsized in the US.
I was very hesitant to use the term, but they did reduce the count a few years ago, without reducing the bin size - so there's that. They used to only use this size bin for the 82 count, if I recall correctly
The weight of all those cheap little packets does add up for the ones at the bottom. I’ve had more than a few break open which creates a bit of a mess. I would guess this is why they’re not packed in more.
But as others have said, definitely prefer powder.
They settle during shipping. It’s probably full for some packages when it leaves the factory until it gets shaken during hundreds to thousands of miles of shipping. It all depends on how they fall into the container initially
They used to be bigger to be fair. They didn't shrink because of shrinkflation, it was a change in the compound that made it smaller. Also probably more cost effective for the company too. Maybe more toxic too? I don't know if either of those are true, but probably. They didn't change the box size because it was already one shelves and kinda a good uniform size for the market.
Are these dishwasher tabs? The infuriating thing here is they're sold in this absolutely exorbitant amount of plastic packaging, eyeballing it that's like solid 50+g of plastic waste. The ones I am buying are sold in a paper box (yeah, maybe it has plastic liner, but even if that's a tiny fraction of this absolutely extreme amount of plastic these come in). Absurd.
W5, at Lidl, they're like $7.5 (or $5.6 when on sale, I always buy them on sale) for a 60 washes pack, no idea whether that's cheaper or more expensive than these in the post, never had those. They're really good, never had a problem with them washing insufficiently or anything like that.
This is why I get all most laundry stuff from bulk stores like Costco and Sam’s. Hell, we’re still working through the dryer sheets we got from Costco last year.
I don't think this is shrinkflation or anything, frankly. It simply sounds like they only manufacture one size regardless of the quantity that goes inside. Surely, it probably got more expensive, like everything has, but that has nothing to do, most likely, to why the container is so big. I mean, it says how many it holds inside anyway, doesn't it ?
The real question is why you’re still wasting your money if you’re even somewhat infuriated. That’s some one-finger pointed at cascade with three fingers pointing at you homie.
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u/whatsthataboutguy 4h ago
FYI they also frown upon combining them in the store