I think its fabulous . Great for soaking a really dirty frying pan or cleaning one glass . without a lot of excess soads

I think we had a thread on this product very recently. I use it on dishes and pots I'm not going to wash right away. When I get back to them, they're super easy to clean.

Yes, I asked the same question a few weeks ago. I use it for really dirty things, like a casserole dish, not for everyday. And yes I've been impressed.

I agree that it works on the really grimy. Not for everyday washing.

Does anyone care what these SUPER chemicals do in our water systems? Over kill it seems to me assuming its actually different and not just marketing. Regular Dawn is an awesome product al on it's own. The fancy bottle is alluring but in the end is designed for the water waster washers, which seems soooo wrong to me.

arcy, can you tell us what ingredient you find so objectionable?

Water wasting? Powerwash is designed to reduce water use? Spray on without water, (optionally let sit a few minutes) then wipe out pan, then rinse. The point is to reduce soaking and scrubbing and it sudses up by itself ... water is only used at rinse. Doesn't everyone rinse their dishes?

We use power wash on the items that generally involvemore intensive cleaning ... the grill pan from the steak, the casserole dish from the chicken thighs, and other pans from fattier cooking processes. First, we wipe/pour out as much fat as possible; then, once the pan is no longer goppy, we spray in powerwash and let sit based on how bad the pan was and how long it sat before cleaning (i.e. did it sit for five minutes or two hours), and then we wipe that out and rinse the pan. Without powerwash, the steps were: wipe out fat, scrub with non-powerwash dawn, let soak for several hours or overnight, then finish cleaning with soap and water and then rinse.

The glass casserole might be able to fit into the dishwasher after its soak, but skillets and such are all handwash for their own longevity. (Yes, I have seen the commercials where they just haphazardly scrape a dish before putting it in the dishwasher ... no thank you, the dishwasher is not a disposal; I'd rather not put food debris into the diswasher that I'll need to clean out of it later.)

Would you like to explain how you would prefer to see dishwashing done? Let's say: an average of about two handwash pots/pans (one of which could be a soaking candidate), a couple glasses, a few plates and bowls (2-5), some tongs or a spatula, and, depending on what I'm cooking, there could be about a dozen spoons in the sink.

I have two Dawn products, regular Dawn and Platinum which comes in a container that turns it into foam when you dispense it, both are excellent. I have not yet seen the 'powerwash' and wonder whether the 'platinum' powerwash is a foam dispenser.

It's the bomb on greasy/oily frying pans, but that's all I use it for right now. I've washed dishes all my life without it, so I wouldn't buy something I don't need. My DDIL bought some, I tried it, and wasn't that impressed except for skillet use. I had to buy her another bottle, because I threw away her empty bottle, not know it was refillable.

Powerwash is available both in a spray and an up-side down dispenser bottle (like some ketchup). I believe that the additional ingredient is isopropyl alcohol. Google a homemade version.

"Regular" Dawn Ultra and Dawn Platinum have denatured alcohol in them already ... they describe its purpose as stabilizing the formula. That is not the different ingredient in powerwash.

I have a hunch the Power Wash is just more concentrated - contains less water - than the regular stuff.

And what I have is the spray foam.

Refer to arcy's first reply to this topic to understand what she means. I don't think anyone here mentioned using it the way she described. Tho I know a few people who do hand wash their dishes with the water constantly running, I don't, I use 2 dishpans and use the captured rinse water on my plants outside.

I would like to comment on something, and it's likely to be unpopular... But today's dishwashers use less water, are energy efficient, and can handle bits of food on it. It saves more water than hand washing dishes.

Why not just use the dishwasher, as intended? Save the manual scrubbing for things that aren't going to come off like burnt on stuff?

Hot water, requires the hot water heater to be used. That's electricity being used. Filling up your sink or a dish tub, is using water and soap, which is a chemical. I just don't think you can get around using water and chemicals. Anything else is just based on personal feelings. Facts are facts.

That said, wash your dishes the way you want to, but don't blast everybody else for doing it a different way. More than one way to get it done!

I might be wrong, I haven't counted, but I think most people replying to this topic do use their dishwashers, and use the Power Wash for the tougher stuff.

We don't have a dishwasher. There's not even a space for one in our tiny kitchen. I actually prefer handwashing for my vintage dishes, since dishwasher detergent is really hard on some finishes.

I have a number of items, canners and large pans that will not fit in the dishwasher and must be washed by hand.

That's sort of the things I'm thinking about. I'm more than happy to use that stuff, and I'm going to try it, on my airfryer equipment, for instance. I get what you're saying.

I was really surprised that today's dishwashers can do what they can do. My child was all excited ("oh my gosh look at how clean everything gets!") when we moved to our new house a decade ago. And it's bottom of the line. I can only guess what the newer, nicer ones do?!

I do use a dishwasher, don't know what I would do without it. I still seem to have a lot of things to wash that don't go in the dishwasher.

" Hot water, requires the hot water heater to be used. That's electricity being used. "

In many regions, mine included, water is most often heated by natural gas appliances and not by electricity. Gas uses much less energy than electricity and is much cheaper to use for heating water. Other than the newer heat pump electric water heaters set to economy mode, for which it's less clearly advantageous but I believe still so.

Also, most (maybe all) dishwashers have internal water heaters. In our kitchens in houses without hot water circulating plumbing, it takes turning on the hot spigot and running some not-hot water down the drain until the hot arrives. BUT, dishwashers have heaters and do just fine if filled with coldish "hot" water. Or, do the handwashing items first and then turn on the dishwasher when done, the hot water is there.

Using the Alton Brown axiom 'just walk away'; having let it permeate for 'quite some time' and then clean, I will raise my rating from a three to a four. Perhaps we got a bad bottle ... using elbow grease doesn't bother me

My basket for my air-fryer gets a grease buildup, both inside and outside, even though it's nonstick.

My Cuisinart countertop oven has stains all inside and they're extremely difficult to get off. Same as the window, has baked on stains. Every time I use them, I think of this thread.

I'm going to have to buy a bottle and see if it helps.

I love it for cleaning the grates in the grill. It also works for getting stains out of clothing (think DGD2 eating cherries and wiping her fingers on a light colored dress). I’ve used it to clean my make-up brushes and it did a great job.

“Gas uses much less energy than electricity…”

Hmmm.

Hmmm.

Perhaps better to say cheaper. Or, gas uses less of your energy budget. A BTU is a BTU, the difference in how much is paid for it. Fuel oil vs electricity vs natural gas.

This is something I've long known but for those who like instant internet expertice , try this. Put in your own per unit energy costs.

https://www.efficiencymaine.com/at-home/water-heating-cost-comparison/

My house is all electric and I pay on average $0.10/KWH which is about a 9% increase in the last year. According to the calculator I pay about $350/year to heat my water at the default values of quantity and temperature rise. That's about $75 less than I would pay at current propane prices which is my only other option out here in the sticks.

FWIW, I find a razor blade works well on a glass oven door's baked-on spots.

My two utilities, gas starts at ~$2 for the first tier, electricity at 35c and jumps after that to ~45c. Water heating with gas just under $300 per the calculator (our cost about 1/3 less), electricity would be nearly $1200 calculated at the lower tier, which wouldn't apply if looking at the incremental cost with/without.

LoneJack you pay .10/kwh???? Our rates are time of use which is 18.2 cents/kwh during peak periods, 12.2 c/kwh mid-peak, and 8.2 off peak which is 7pm to 7am.

I bought some today, for my air fryer, because it's so greasy, but what I really loved using it for, was cleaning some jewelry?! It was good to get down in the part where the watch band meets the watch works (what is the name for that?), without too much liquid. It even polished my silver jewelry?!

I really love the way it cleaned my toaster oven door. And I have my two worst pans soaking overnight tonight. 🤞🏻

I am really putting it through its paces.

Like arcy, I do wonder about everything that goes down our drains. Not sure how DPW affects everything. I do know, that I don’t always have a way to soak something (and it will go into the drain anyway) so sometimes, not always, but sometime, DPW is the solution. Whenn it is, I use it.,

My preferred soak is in powdered dishwasher detergent and hot water. I find it the best solution. But I don’t always have the container or sink or tub to do it in.

LoneJack you pay .10/kwh????

Jasdip - on average yes. We have tiered rates. The first 800 KWH per month is 10.49c/kwh and after that it's 8.884c/kwh. My electric coop doesn't have peak/off peak pricing. The service availability charge is $1.37/day. I average somewhere around 1300/kwh per month with the peak in January.

I bought some Dawn powerwash a couple weeks ago and so far have only used it on my Air Fryer. I let it soak overnight and it seemed to do a pretty good job but I need to do another round on it.

lonejack, is your electricity from coal-powered plants?

My electric cooperative doesn't generate any electricity itself. They buy their power from a rural electric cooperative association that has multiple sources of generation including hydro, coal, natural gas, and wind.

Here in Portland, I am a big fan of gas because we get electric power outages.

Most of our electric lines are above ground. In the winter, ice storms and winds bring trees down. There, your power is out. When we first moved here, it would happen for a few hours, maybe overnight in a really bad storm. The utility got the lines fixed pretty quickly. It was kind of fun.

The outages have become more frequent, and last longer. I don’t know if the urban trees are weakened by changing weather, the utility hasn’t kept its repair capability up, or what.

Last winter at one point there were something like 70,000 homes out of power in this metro area, and most of them for multiple days, including some for a week or more. The record among my friends was 8 days. It was about 16F, snow and ice, cold wind. Camping out in your 20-30F house for a week with only candles and maybe a fireplace is no bueno. There were a lot of frozen pipes and subsequent water damage.

I bought a portable gasoline generator and rewired my forced-air gas furnace to run off an extension cord. Fortunately, I didn’t lose power.

So I inventoried our critical circuits and what it would take to keep them live. Let’s see, I’ll want to run the furnace controls and blower, the water heater thermostat and blower, the cable modem and WiFi, and have some plugs for charging phones and flashlights and laptops, and keeping the fish tank aerated. It would be nice to have the lights in the kitchen and dining room operating, those are LEDs so don’t draw much. And I’d want my outside outlets working so I can run some extension cords to my neighbors. The range burners are gas so we can cook, I’ll want the refrigerator and freezer powered. Oooo, of course we’ll “need” the espresso machine and grinder to run.

Yes, I could be cozy for a week, even multiple weeks, with those circuits powered.

Turns out, all that can be powered from a standby generator that will turn on automatically and run from my house gas line. One of the smallest ones will do. I hope to have one installed before the coming winter.

So, while I think green electricity is where we need to go, until our local grid is more reliable I’m keeping gas. It is cheaper, too. Our electricity rates have been going up 15-20%/year. Blame wildfires.

Solar/battery doesn’t solve the problem, as these ice/windstorms are in the winter, when we don’t get much solar radiation and the panels will be covered with 1” of ice.