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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masklinn 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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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jeffbee 10 hours ago | parent [-]

One segment of this video quite clearly shows that the fancy pod does dispense its contents in stages.

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masklinn 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Not in any sort of meaningful way no. Pockets dissolving seconds later by random chance does not do anything in an hour long wash cycle.

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jeffbee 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Making part of the pod out of 3mil PVA and bonding it to another part made of 1mil PVA does not sound like unachievable technology to me. In fact, the first Google result for PVA films that I see sells them based on their various dissolution times.

	▲	ThePowerOfFuet 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You have done nothing to disprove the comment to which you replied.

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PetitPrince a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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jogu a day ago | parent | prev [-]

He has another video talking about pods specifically:

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