5 Tips for Getting Immaculately Clean Dishes in Your Dishwasher + Giveaway
This review was made possible by Double Duty Divas and Cascade. I was provided the featured product free of charge to facilitate my review, but all opinions are 100% mine.
With our family of 8, we make a LOT of dirty dishes! Thanks to Double Duty Divas and Cascade, I had the opportunity to invite some of my family and friends for a Dishwashing Party! Ok, let me explain a little more. I didn’t actually have our guests wash dishes, but rather I showed them the washing power of Cascade Platinum detergent and rinse aid. In the first party, the Cascade products did an amazing job with our dirty dishes from brownies and macaroni and cheese. In our second party, it didn’t an awesome job cleaning our dirty dishes from brownies (again) and french toast with syrup (so sticky!!!).
I love how easy Cascade Platinum Pacs are to use and how clean the dishes get! Plus, when I use the Cascade Platinum Rinse Aid, my dishes come out spotless. Now, I’ll be honest and admit that I am not typically one who puts dishes dirty in the dishwasher. I pretty much wash them before I put them in the dishwasher and then use the dishwasher to sanitize them. However, with these two parties, I had to put dirty dishes in and was amazed both times at how clean and shiny they came out! Let me share with you 5 Tips For Getting Immaculately Clean Dishes in the Dishwasher.
5 Tips For Getting Immaculately Clean Dishes in the Dishwasher
1 – Use Cascade Platinum detergent and rinse aid.
2 – Skip the pre-wash. Why skip the pre-wash? Cascade Platinum works best when food soil is left on the dishes because its special enzymes latch onto that food, breaking it down so it can wash away. If there is no food soil, there is nothing for the enzymes to attach to and your detergent won’t work it’s hardest for you.
3 – In lieu of any pre-washing, simply toss the large bits of food into the trash or garbage disposal and then stop there. There is no need to run anything under water. Simply load the dishes into the dishwasher. This is a major time-saving tip!
4 – Don’t worry about food left on your dishes damaging your machine or pipes. Not very many people know that there is a garbage disposal built into the bottom of almost all dishwashers – but there is (I have to admit that I didn’t even know that)!! That disposal works exactly like the disposal in your sink.
5 – Follow the tips in my first post on Cascade when it comes to loading your dishwasher.
About Cascade Platinum Pacs
Cascade Platinum Pacs deliver the premium, advanced triple action formula that helps prevent residue on dishes and filming in the dishwasher. These Pacs have the Grease Fighting Power of Dawn and scrub away tough 24-hour stuck-on food. When you use the Cascade Platinum Pacs, there is no need to pre-wash your dishes. Pretty awesome, right?
About Cascade Platinum Rinse Aid
Cascade Platinum Rinse Aid provides outstanding spot and film protection. It helps to rinse away food particles and residues that can cause spots on dishes. It also provides great drying action. Etch protection helps prevent further damage to dishes. It does a great job on dishes.
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1 lucky reader on The Mommy-Files 1 pack of Cascade Platinum, 1 Bottle of Cascade Rinse Aid, Whisk, Spatula, Wine Topper and Sugar Sifter!!!
Have you used Cascade Platinum before?
What was the dirtiest dish you’ve put in your dishwasher?
This review was made possible by Double Duty Divas and Cascade. I was provided the featured product free of charge to facilitate my review, but all opinions are 100% mine.
Anything with melted cheese
Spaghetti sauce and I use regular cascade all the time but I have never used the platinum
Lasagna would be one of the hardest things to clean since the cheese melts or burns on!
Three. Cheese Lasagna
Not only is there the tough baked on sticky cheese, but the tomato sauce and grease from meat.
Definitely anything cheese and lasagna!!
baked on lasagna is my worst nightmare!
spaghetti with marinara sauce
They are small, but spatulas always give me trouble. Usually because they have melted cheese attached to them.
I think Ricotta Mozzarella Manicotti is the hardest to get cleaned out!
Apple and Cinnamon crumble is impossible for me to clean off.
I have used Cascade before and it works well for me. My turkey lasagna and vegetable pan is hard to get clean. Thanks for the giveaway.
Lasagna for sure would be the hardest to get off for me.
my meatloaf pan is the hardest to clean
Any baked pasta dish!
my Mexican lasagna is toughest to clean
lasagna all the way!!
Potatoes Gratin is always a challenge to clean!
My cheesy chicken, broccoli and rice casserole in my glass casserole dish is my hardest dish to clean. I usually don’t bother to try and just use a disposable aluminum foil pan.
The frying pan that I fried chicken in, is the hardest dish to get clean.
My worst dishwashing nightmare is baked on lasagna.
Baked on Mac and Cheese is difficult to get clean for me.
No, I haven’t.
Usually baked lasagna or macaroni and cheese.
The hardest is anything with cheese baked on in the microwave.
my toughest dished to get clean are the ones from when i make sauce. The sauce gets dried and crusty on the dishes.
My meatloaf pan is the hardest to clean.
I have a hard time getting peanut butter off my knives and dried egg off plates.
my toughest is spaghetti dishes when they forget to rinse them.
I make a mean pudding but it sometimes gets really sticky on the pan…caramel sticky bun pans are also a pain to clean
Scalloped potatoes are the worst to clean up!
The toughest for me is lasagna.
Baked Macaroni and Cheese is the hardest for me to get the pan clean.
Baked Macaroni and Cheese is always a real bear.
The toughest for me is baked on taco casserole.
The pan from my cheesy potatoes can be very hard to get clean!
Baked 4 cheese mac and cheese and sausage lasagna are the worst dishes ever to clean
The toughest is pasta– my famous baked ziti.
Blackberry Cobbler
Blackberry cobbler is tough for me to clean.
Baked on lasagna is the worst nightmare to clean.
Any time I cook cheese grits it makes a HUGE stuck-on mess. You don’t want grits to dry on your dishes…it’s like cement!
Our toughest dish is from cooking Broccoli Casserole.
Baked on spaghetti!
I have a hard time getting lasagna dishes to come clean!
Tuna noodle Cassarole is very cheesy and bakes the cheese on which makes it stick like glue!
my mothers lasagna recipe. it tastes amazing but i think an ingredient is super glue….
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My Chicken Spinach Parmesan recipe really sticks to the pan. The baked spinach and cheese are really difficult to remove.
The veggie lasagna is hard to clean.
Caked on pasta is my toughest.
Lasagna is my toughest cleaning job, especially on the pan.
Our biggest issue would have to be dried tomato sauce!
Lasagna pan is a huge pain to clean
Any sort of pasta that includes a lot of cheese, mainly the lasagna that i tend to make… It’s a horribly tough job attempting to scratch off that burnt cheese…
The toughest dishes are from my baked ziti.
burnt on lasagna pan is the worst. i usually buy a disposable pan 🙂
Lasagna has to be the hardest to clean.
My messiest dish is from baked lasagna!
I have a very difficult time getting my 9×13 pan clean after lasagne!
My Vegetarian Enchilada Casserole is the hardest to clean because it has baked on tomato and cheese.
My homemade Three Cheese Lasagna is the hardest to clean as no matter how much I spray the pan before cooking the cheese always seems to stick to the baking pan.
Baked ziti pasta or lasagna is the worst!
Lasagna is the worst.
Baked on lasagna is my nightmare.
My lasagna pan is tough to get clean
Lasagna is the hardest
The toughest is always the pasta dishes.
The messiest for me is the goulash dishes.
Thanks for the giveaway… we make a Turkey-Vegetable Hash Brown Quiche recipe whose baking dish is always tough to clean !
Lasagna! It’s the reason we make it very rarely