Can you shave some of it off with a vegetable peeler or is it crumbly and likely to crumble if you try that.

Jerrod. I'm not sure. Its very heavy and kinda looks like a solid hunk of deer salt. But I think it goes into some type of dispenser. I even wonder if there's a liquid inside it. I just don't know. I haven't removed the clear plastic overwrap. I was going to ask over on automatwasher.org but it won't accept my pass word and I'm waiting for a new one. Lol

It is used in the long, belt type dishwasher at say a college campus or nursing home. The blocks are put into a chamber, and as the machine calls for detergent, hot water is sprayed over it until the concentration is met. It is very concentrated, and is meant for quick work. It is also always used in stainless steel machines, not plastic. If it was me, I would use it in the prewash portion, maybe. It is short, cooler water, and will still do the job. Shaving it off with a potato peeler would be ideal. I mean like a 1/4-1/2 teaspoon. Most are enzyme laden versus bleach. You could always use it as a pre-soaker for really crusty stuff before putting it in the dishwasher.

Of course I'm not going to use this stuff. Wont even open it. To bad its not just a huge hunk of compressed Cascade since it is loaded in phosphates. Wonder if I could find a place with a commercial machine that I could donate all this to. I do see Amazon sells it for 225.00 each. Only place I can even think that would use this around here is hospitals and I doubt they would accept it from me.

MamaP I would try to sell it on EBay.

I suppose I could try to figure out how to do EBay. Lol. I do want to get rid of this stuff. I shouldn't have accepted it to begin with. I refuse to send chemicals like this to a landfill so I'll have to figure something out...

Thank You HCBM for the idea.

It's not hard to do and if they sell for $225 you can ask for less and make some money.

I’ve worked in restaurants the last 22 years. Those seem to be the higher end dishwasher machine detergent. A lot of places don’t spend that much for detergent even though it’s super concentrated. Finding a place locally that used that particular brand will be difficult since most use liquid concentrate detergent. I agree the eBay route is the best. Could sell it for 100 each and someone with that machine would snatch it up.

Most dish machines are given free (or very reduced rate) if the company buys their soap exclusively from the specific distributor. Ecolab is very expensive stuff. Good find, I bet you can make someone very happy with those. i wouldn’t use in a home machine. Ours at work take less than a min to wash rinse and sanitize. Of course our homemade machine takes an hour or longer and not all stainless steel.

$225 for a case of 6 on Amazon so less than $40 each, FYI, if you go the eBay route.

It's chlorinated. Suggested dilution is 0.13-0.26%.

Category 1 and 1A Hazard (don't know if that limits your shipping options??)

Lantro...thank you...I guess I should learn to read...lol