There are over 43,000 products on ULINE, and dishwasher soap is one of them. But my question this morning is what is that weird little red ball called the powerball in the Finish dishwasher detergent. It fell apart when I put it in the little holder this morning.
Detergent is different than soap. If we washed dishes with soap, they would have scum on them. So what is detergent if we had to make it ourselves? Homemade versions include ingredients such as borax, essential oil, eucalyptus oil. Borax, soap, washing soda, salt, lemon essential oil, citric acid are ingredients. Lemon would not have been available until recently, so wonder what our pioneers did. They left it out.
So zooming ahead 100 years or so, our powerball is a specialized compartment with compressed detergent to provide a "concentrated boost of cleaning power."
The powerball is one of three chambers for breaking down all types of food residues. There's a chemistry lab in that tiny cube. I wonder how many chemists worked over the decades to get to that seemingly simple product.
Simple? Just type in 20 uses for dishwasher tablets and you will get more than 20 uses for it: clean the toilet, wash the washing machine to freshen it, brighten white clothes scrubs the oven, revitalize patio furniture, soak pots and pans to remove burnt food, deodorize the trash can, soak silverware... an "all-clean" set of scenarios.
A picture from the past of a steam locomotive from the past.
