Method Power Dish Packs
Jase
6 years ago
I know many here are a fan of the now hard to find Smarty Dish tablets. Has anyone tried the Method Power Dish Packs? They advertise that they are 30% more powerful than the Smarty Dish. Enzymes include amylase and protease. Available in Free + Clear and Lemon Mint.
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enduring
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How about these canning methods? (((cringe)))
Comments (8)I tend to go overboard in this kind of situation so for me the challenge is not turning the person off to the conversation. But I would tell him that botulism is the only food-borne illness that scares me, and try to convince him to at least add lemon juice to the jars. Then again, if he's not heat processing, he would need a lot more lemon juice. I guess I would tell him not to give his tomatoes to people with weak immune systems, but then again pretty much everyone is weak when it comes to botulism (as opposed to say eggs...I don't serve partially-cooked egg dishes to pregnant women or people with weakened immune systems). Tough one Elaine...at least you gave him some info. The bigger question is, what do you do if you know he gives canned tomatoes to other people at work? That would be a good question to send in to Randy Cohen, the ethicist who answers questions in the New York Times and on NPR. Melissa...See MorePaper Towel Method/ Byron's Tea Method?
Comments (28)Hi Chris. Ya i hope it all pans out and me starting the peppers will make my yields a lot greater. I seem to make a lot of hot sauce. Tabasco peppers are my pepper of choice for this especially last year since my cayenne peppers weren't really that hot. I really didn't understand it. They are supposed to be on the same heat level as tabasco but mine were id say about as hot as my jalapeno. Everything in my garden was fire hot including my habaneros. I can't really contribute it to anything i was doing because they were close to all the other peppers and got the same treatment. Ive never heard people having trouble with long slim cayennes being hot though ( i have heard this with jalapenos). I got the cayennes locally at the only place that sells them. Maybe it was the seeds they used. I don't know so i decided to grow my own this year. But anyways yes i had tabasco pretty early but most of them were green. A lot of them started turning red in the middle of October which was about two weeks before the first frost. I remember being out there when it was wet and 35 out and trying to get peppers so i could have enough to make hot sauce. It pretty much sucked. I plan to start most of my (hard to start) chiles March 1 (Chiltepin/tepin, habanero, ect). The rest of my hot chiles i will start march 15. Sweet Chiles (red & yellow bells) along with tomatoes and herbs will be started April 1 for a planed planting day of around the middle of May. I learned last year even if you have days in the 80's you don't want to get excited and plant because you will have really cold days most likely. I learned my leason last year when i waisted about $100 planting stuff early. ncage...See Moredoes anyone still handwash their dishes
Comments (35)vacuumfreak, sounds like you have a great system working for you. I always find it helpful to run some hot water in the sink while I'm cooking. Not a full sink but some and any utensils I'm using can start to soak immediately. This helps me keep up with the dishes. I really have a problem with washing dishes immediately after a meal. I like to be able to enjoy the meal, relax, maybe have dessert later and not rush into doing the dishes. I like to have them soak and that way they're ready to quickly swish, rinse and dry in the rack. BTW, for the one who gets a flavor from the Direct Foam, I'm sure you're just not rinsing them right. Or you're using too much soap. I've always found Dawn & Joy to be the best for rinsing off easily. Sunlite is pretty good. Generics are the worst, Palmolive is pretty bad. Water makes a difference. Find what works best for you. A couple tips: It's a good idea to give brushes, sponges, etc an occasional bleach soaking to kill off the crud. I like having a small, cheap flexible plastic putty knife handy for cleaning things on the counter or on dishes. BTW, I'm not sure the advantage of having a dishpan in the sink. I just put less water in the sink. If you have only one sink, of course it's a benefit, but I don't understand the need. I have the drainer out of the sink. Have thought about leaving it in there and rinsing, but I often have more dishes so it would pile up over so I have the drain tray divert the water to the sink and use one sink for washing and the other for rinsing. Sometimes plug the sink to hold the water for rinsing. But if there's a lot, then you have to change the water or you'll leave soap on the dishes and get the taste. Don't want that! :)...See MoreHow do you wash the dishes?
Comments (25)Pam, like you, I have a single basin sink and I don't like it. i don't have a sprayer either... I try to put most things in the dishwasher... non-stick cookware and straight edge knives usually don't go in the dishwasher, but sometimes they do. Sometimes I'll "soak" a pot for a week just to put off washing it as long as possible :O) Some things like the juicer or halogen oven can't go in the dishwasher and I dread washing them. I will hand wash if I'm in a hurry and don't want to wait, but by the time I'm done, the floor is soaked, I'm soaked, and the lamp and candles on the counter behind the sink are floating off the counter in a cascade of water... I'm even messy when I clean :o) I used to fill the sink with soapy water and rinse in a dish pan of vinegar water and then let things air dry in the drainer (I think dish towels can hold bacteria, so I don't want to wipe dishes that I've just washed with a dish towel that may or may not have bacteria all over it). Now, I wash one dish at a time under running water and just rinse it and put it in the drainer... I just stopped filling the sink and using the dish pan to rinse. I never clean as I go and I have a friend who chastises me for it constantly, but I'm not likely to change... when I'm cooking, that's what I'm doing... after I'm done and when I feel like it, I'll clean everything in one fell swoop....See Moreenduring
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MiMi
6 years agoJase
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Joel H.
6 years agojulieboulangerie
6 years ago
rococogurl
6 years agoI have the Method. Old DW and the are a bit too fat for the detergent cup. OK performance but no nice fragrance like the Smarties (I found a bag and grabbed it yesterday. I cut them with a scissors and keep them in a jar.)
I also got a bag of these LemiShine tabs which I think do a nicer job than even the Method. Nice surprise. Anyone use them?
Do find the Method ok for small/light loads.
larsi_gw
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