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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of them work very well anymore because of the lack of phosphates. Try cascade fryer boil out or bubble bandit detergent. Both are on Amazon and work great! [/quote]

This. Everyone thinks their dishwashers are broken, but it’s the lack of phosphates in the detergent. Lemishine or other citrus products help, but if you really want to see a difference, get a tub of trisodium phosphate (tsp) from the hardware store and put a tiny amount (1/4 tsp) in with your soap.  Also works in the laundry (I don’t use it with everything, but I couldn’t figure out why my white sheets were so yellow despite soaking in oxyclean, etc, and finally tried washing with a bit of tsp. Solved the problem.)

Don’t get me started on the phosphate thing — the amount of phosphate in the detergent was tiny, and the real source of the phosphate problem in river and streams is run off from farms. But Washington State found it was easier to ban it in detergent and pretend you were doing something. Detergent with phosphates isn’t illegal everywhere, but the manufacturers don’t want to make different products for different states, so here we are. [/quote]

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