Dan Espen wrote:
dgk writes:

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:32:02 -0600, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Doc wrote:
Have a Hotpoint dishwasher from 1988. Still seems to run fine but
does a hit and miss job of cleaning. Leaves a noticeable film on
glasses on the top rack, is hit and miss on plates. Doesn't seem
to matter what detergent I use.

As far as I can tell there's still a strong jet of water getting
sprayed, gets plenty hot but it clearly seems to be less effective.
Any insights as to why this is?


In the past year or so, dishwasher detergent manufacturers, in
obeisance to the green gomers, stopped making detergent with
phosphate. This condition can be easily remedied by adding
phosphates to your detergent (it's like adding two fresh eggs to a
cake mix).


And they did this terrible thing because they wanted dirtier dishes?
Perhaps it was because shoving phosphates into the sewer causes
problems elsewhere, but selfish ****heads don't care about the
problems they create for someone else as long as their dishes shine.

Don't you get it?

If you can ridicule a group ("green gomers"), then that group
is automatically wrong. No need to worry about consequences.

You make a good point. Still, in this one case, the fools need to be held up
to the contempt and ridicule they so richly deserve. This was not an ad
hominem attack, merely a descriptive adjective. The post went on with
substantive information.