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I thought that the multi-solution pods - they're usually have differently-colored, for I presume marketing reasons - have pockets with different dissolve rates, so that the solutions are dispensed in sequence. I've not tested that, though.


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masklinn11/05/2025

Alec actually looked at that in a previous video of the dishwasher series. There is no "different dissolve rate" or "dispensed in sequence".

https://youtu.be/Ll6-eGDpimU?t=718

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PetitPrince11/05/2025

It would be probably very difficult to engineer a good dissolution rate that takes into account the different length and water temperature of the pre-wash cycle of the many many different dishwashers out there. So no, as the video in the sibling comment shows, it's just fancy marketing.

jogu11/05/2025

He has another video talking about pods specifically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04