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Originally Posted by Uptown Girl
I had a lot of (rust?) spots on any metal stuff when using Cascade in a dishwasher having a stainless steel interior. Cascade began to leave streaks on the walls of the washer as well. (which I removed with WD40)
After doing some online research, I found that Cascade's formula isn't the best for that environment. I changed to Finish brand and the results were improved.
Our dishwasher here does not have a stainless steel interior. I bought Cascade gel packs and have noticed one or two spots happening occasionally, on my older pieces. I use a little SOS on the spots and they're gone.
I'll switch back to Finish brand with my next round of shopping.
Hope that helps you!
As for 'body spots'..... I guess we just have to embrace THEM!!!!
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I agree about Cascade and silverware in the dishwasher, especially if the silverware is a fairly recent purchase (within the last decade), and the dw interior is s/s. It used to be that stainless was made from steel manufactured in the US. It was high-quality steel. Now most stainless is made with poorer quality steel from other countries (Poland, Thailand, Vietnam are some.) It's cheaper and therefore the flatwell is cheaper to buy, but the result is spotting. I've thrown out a whole set of Oneida due to rust spots. Even if I could get the spots off, I would have to hand-wash the silverware to keep it from re-spotting.
Cascade definitely caused spotting and pitting in my s/s interior dw in MI. Here our interior is not stainless, and I've switched to Finish power ball tabs. I also bought stainless made in Italy from Sur la Table. So far no pitting or spotting. Hope that helps.