Is it weird that I giggle every time I have to load or unload the dishwasher? Not at all. Not when I have never had a dishwasher before, so this is beyond exciting for me! We have been doing some kitchen updates, so now, I finally like my kitchen! Now that I have a dishwasher, I was excited when I was approached to check out the latest product from FINISH (the new name for Electrasol) that no household should be without! FINISH Quantum is an automatic, pre-measured, and wrapper free dishwashing detergent with 3 powerful active ingredients and innovative technology that delivers amazing shine and brilliant results.
When I first tried it, it really didn’t work for me. Well, I think I probably didn’t use it correctly and the detergent door didn’t open for some reason. Hey, I am a ‘first timer’ using a dishwasher. 
Well, I tried it again and it worked like a charm! My dishes came out sparkly clean!
It was really neat having to use this, instead of toting out the dishwashing liquid, pour, close lid, put the liquid back under the sink – then to repeat over the next time. FINISH Quantum is literally a one step process.
I also got to check out JET-DRY Turbo Dry. This is truly a MIRACLE product, I tell ya! This dries dishes right out of the dishwasher, so no more towel-drying! I tried a few loads of dishes without JET-DRY and I was surprised once I did use it. It was so cool! My dishes came out dry. Completely dry!
By using the right dishwashing product and following these simple tips, consumers can save on water, energy and dishwashing product, while still getting perfect results the first time they wash.
- Don’t Wash by Hand: It is more expensive to wash dishes by hand than to properly run them in a dishwasher. Also, a dishwasher’s water temperature generally reaches over 120º, which is best for removing grease and stuck-on food.
- Run Tap Water First: For sparkling clean dishes, run your kitchen’s hot water tap before starting the dishwasher to make sure the water entering the machine has reached its highest temperature.
- Scrape, Don’t Rinse: Scrape your dishes because the enzymes in your detergent that soften burnt-on food need to cling to protein/starch, such as egg and oatmeal, in order to work properly.
- Load Properly: Cups, glasses and less soiled items should be placed on the top rack. Generally, larger and dirtier items are best on the bottom rack.
- Select the Right Detergent: Detergent is typically made with two main ingredients, bleach and enzymes. Bleach and enzymes lessen the effectiveness of each other but FINISH Quantum’s technology keeps them separated and releases them when needed in the dishwashing cycle for a superior clean.
- Avoid Wet Dishes: The #1 complaint concerning dishwashers is that dishes do not come out dry. Use a drying agent in your dishwasher’s rinse aid dispenser, such as JET-DRY TURBO DRY™, to solve that problem and unload the dishwasher faster.
For more information, visit www.FinishDishwashing.com
How would you like to win a package of FINISH Quantum and JET-DRY TURBO DRY to try yourself?
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO!
- Post to me your dishes routine. In my house, I cook and hubby usually cleans up, but he doesn’t seem to know how to load a dishwasher.
For extra entries:
- Twitter the giveaway (leave link on comment entry)
- Blog about this giveaway (leave link on comment entry)
Just the little tidbits about entries and what not 
- Please be sure to leave your email address so I can contact the winner.
- Winner will be chosen at RANDOM and backed up by post content.
- TWO (2) winners will each receive a package of FINISH Quantum and JET-DRY TURBO DRY
- Winner will be contacted via Email. If no response in 48 hours, another winner will be drawn
Contest will end on June 1, 2009 at 11:59 pm ; central time
About Tanya
I cook and do the dishes
I do the majority of the cooking and try to tidy up as I go. It is then mother’s job to rinse and put them into the dishwasher. We both unload and put dishes away. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this fun giveaway!
I am the dishwasher loader. Sometimes I can get my daughter to unload the clean dishes.
donna444444@yahoo.com
My husband and I share the cooking, but I do most of the cleaning up. I like to get it done right after we eat, if possible, and I don’t mind loading or unloading the dishwasher but hand washing the pots and pans is not much fun.
tweeted @ http://twitter.com/kellygrant1977
My hubby says we have a dishwasher, I say yeah, me. But we really do have a dishwahser
I do the dishes (in the past couple of years hubby has forgotten where the dishwasher is!) I generally have a load or more a day, so I’m constantly doing dishes!
Thanks for the giveaway…I have been permanently assigned by my wife to handle the post meal clean up duties** (dishes, pots/pans, & general wipe down of the kitchen) in our home, thus my entry into this contest !!!!
** We do however switch jobs when I am tasked to cook outside on the grill.
Our dishes routine is usually he loads and I unload. There’s no set schedule, just whenever the sink gets full!
I do all the dishes in my house because I get a satisfaction from cleaning. I just put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher and run it when it’s full. Anything that doesn’t go in the dishwasher is washed and put away immediately because I hate seeing stuff piling up in the sink.
i load the dishwasher because my teenagers just put the plates or whatever in with whatever is on it…clog clog clog..what they think there is a built in garbage disposal..geeeeeeeeeeeeez
i have a divided sink; one I fill with dishwasher-able dishes, the other I fill with dishes I have to wash by hand. When one side starts to get full, I take the chance to fill the dishwasher and do some hand dishwashing if needed.
I cook and do the cleaning. My grandson lives with me and always promises to do the dishes but somehow it never happens.
I load and my spouse unloads, and then it starts all over again
My children and I take turn s cooking and doing the dishes. Everyone helps out, so mom is not so overwhelmed!
I cook, my daughter puts up leftovers and loads the dishwasher. When the dishes are washed, I put them up.
Our kids take turns cleaning off the dishes after meals, loading the dishwasher and unloading it.
I tend to do the dishes immediately after eating because it will drive me nuts to see them stacked on the counter. Also, my husband eats when he gets home from work at night so I have to get right at his dishes in the morning when I wake up before I have a melt down. (No amount of grumbling and nagging seems to get him to load his own dishes in the dishwasher. What’s up with that?)
I don’t have a fave dish detergent yet because I haven’t found that perfect solution. Perhaps this is it?
The kitchen is mine. I do it all from start to finish, dishes included.
Here is my tweet: http://twitter.com/justicecw/status/1985368297
Hubby almost always does the dishes because he knows I hate it! Thanks for the chance!
I do all the cooking and my husband and I take turns loading the dishwasher!
Unfortunately, I cook AND load the dishwasher. Occasionally I am lucky and someone else unloads it. Every once in a while I have to go on strike and threaten not to cook unless I get more cleanup help.
We’re both good about rinsing dishes and placing them into the dishwasher. Neither of us like dishes piled in the sink and it makes no sense. He’s better than me about going ahead and running the dishwasher. I keep thinking I can cram one more thing in there!
I hate hate hate to do dishes! I would rather scrub toilets than do the dishes. So Normally I just do them really quick or who ever is dining with me does them!
ilovebabynoah707@yahoo.com
I do it all, cook and clean up. Occasionally my husband does some of the cooking and he’s in charge of grilling.
braaisjo at gmail dot com
I cook, husband loads dishwasher and does large items in sink, both of us unload.
My wife is of the belief that if there’s any daylight left in the dishwasher, there’s room for more dishes. This sounds like a job for “Quantum tabs & their sidekick Turbo Dry”!
I clean, rinse the dishes off.
Trying to get everyone, including two teenagers to rinse and put thier own dishes in the dishwasher. I am not sure why they can throw something in the sink but cannot put it in the dishwasher that is right next to the sink.
Husband grills, I do indoor cooking; he cleans up outdoors, I clean up indoors; we both set the table and clear afterwards. I just tried Quantum for the first time and it was great!
I wash as I cook and end up saving alot of time that way- all of the meal dishes and small pots/pans go in the dishwasher.
I do the dishes every night. Sometimes I cook too but usually that’s my wife’s favorite task. I will admit that when we first got married she used to reload the dishwasher after I loaded it every time!
I always do all of the cooking,cleaning up and wash the dishes but my children wash their own dishes and put the placemats away.
tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com
I cook, cleanup, and load the dishwasher. My son unloads the washer and puts the dishes away. Thanks for the giveaway!
i do it all.my husband can’t even open the dishwasher but he cuts the grass very well so it evens out.
i cook and rinse dishes/load and unload dishwasher 95% of time
i have your button at blogmania
http://twitter.com/misaacmom/status/1914268305 tweet
we share – I try to have the husband and kids help out but end up reloading or putting things back where they belong…
I can’t stand to see dishes sitting in the sink unless they are soaking before cleaning/or being put in the dishwasher. If I am making a big meal and using a lot of dishes and utensils I clean/put them in the dishwasher when I am done with the item. After eating all dishes, utensils, flatware are rinsed and put in the dishwasher. I only do full loads of dishes, so the dishwasher runs 1-2 times a week.
tweeted.
http://twitter.com/1amypugmire/status/1912532840
kinda a bummer but i cook and clean! my husband has crappy hours and most the time we eat without him.
i do the dishes, no one else can seem to handle it
Our dishes routine goes like this..
Katherine unload the dishwasher (x3)
Now Katherine load the dishwasher (x2)
Me go in and redo what she loaded.
TWEETED
http://twitter.com/katmagick/statuses/1904825569
I do it all, hubby would help, but I prefer to do it myself. He never loads the dishwasher right anyway.
I cook & I do the dishes.
Thanks for the giveaway >^..^<
My husband and I are supposed to split the duties, one cooking the other doing the dishes but it seems like i end up doing the cooking and the dishes the majority of the time.
We all help load the dishwasher after dinner. I wash whatever cannot go in the dishwasher. My sons unload the dishwasher.
I do all the cooking and the cleaning in the kitchen! Bah! At least my hubby cuts the grass, does all the ironing and all the vacuuming/mopping! Can’t complain!
I blogged http://ljsin2win.blogspot.com/2009/05/enter-to-win-finish-quantum-and-turbo.html
I tweeted
http://twitter.com/ljshores/status/1889335752
Because we only run the dishwasher about once a week, no more than 3 times in two weeks, we do lightly rinse first. We both usually cook and clean.
We take turns, if I cook he cleans. If he cooks, I clean up.
I tweeted @ http://twitter.com/Naddez
I would cook and my teens or myself will load the dishwasher and clean the kitchen.
My Mom is a total care so I cook,clean up and wash the dished with a touch of bleach before putting them in the dish washer
At home I wash the dishes ,my babe works so hard outside in the garden that I feel I want to do as much as I can in the house so he can relax when he come in
Thanks
matternu@aol.com
I cook, I clean the kitchen, I load the dishwasher, but my teens do unload the dishwasher for me. I HATE unloading the dishwasher. Thanks.
I’m generally the one who loads and unloads the dishwasher. My husband has good intentions, but the dishes usually don’t get put in the dishwasher, or rinsed! Thanks!
I load the dishwasher, run it, and hubby puts the clean stuff away.
the one who doesn’t cook usually cleans up. but it’s a tag team kind of job!
i do all the work
imjessica(at)mail(dot)com
MY DH usually does the dishes! Old food makes me throw up!
Thanks for entering me! Great Contest!
Janna Johnson
janna@FeedYourPigBlog.com
jannajanna@hotmail.com
http://www.FeedYourPigBlog.com
I do the cooking, picking everything up and putting away and doing all the dishes. Sometimes someone else does the cooking but I still have to do the dishes. Thank goodness we have a dishwasher!
twittered
http://twitter.com/twinpowells/status/1846682787
member(dot)thao(at)gmail.com
Tweeted for you
http://twitter.com/sleatham1/status/1853379801
Hubby usually cooks and I clean. He never loads the dishwasher correctly, so just better for me to do it! Thanks
bleatham(at)gmail.com
I our house,if you cook you don’t do dishes. The only exception is when I cook I do dishes.
LeslieVeg left a TWEET
https://twitter.com/LeslieVeg/status/1851143349
Many thanks for the Chance to win this GREAT Giveaway!!!
Love it!
Leslie
hahahha.. I think I just Peeed my pants.. Our dish routine.. hahahah
How ’bout, I cook, I set the tableI clean up, I load the dishwasher, I unload the dishwaher, I put the dishes away, I wipe up the table I even PUSH THE BUTTON on the dish washer! hahahahah
HOWEVER, I am thankful I have a dishwasher and My HUBBY is a Blessing! He works very very hard, and IF I asked him to, he would Help…
On the other hand… My daughter is very lazy and I have to nag her to do SQUAT!!!
So in a NUTSHELL.. that is my dish routine.. short of spinning them on sticks, that is what I do!
hahahh
Leslie
I like to unload the dishwasher in the morning so every dirty dish goes into it as it’s used.
Yep, I cook, and we both clean up the table, counters, and stove, wash off the dishes, and may stack the dishwasher that night or the next morning! Thanks for the GREAT giveaway!
clemensrhonda@hotmail.com
I try not to dirty up a lot of dishes, so I don’t run the dishwasher except about every third day when it’s really full.
I cook and my kids do the dishes.
Every time that there is a dirty dish, I rinse it immediately and put it in the dishwasher. I learned this from my grandmother, whose kitchen was always clean, and it inspired me. I am the only one who does dishes because I am a stay-at-home mom and the domestic work is my job, and my husband supports the family which is his job. Having said that, I have been blessed with a husband who doesn’t care if the house is clean or not, so I could let things pile up for days if I wanted to with no worries.
I cook, but we share all other household responsibilities.
Usually hubby cooks and I clean up – but sometimtes he does both!
Blogged about it here:
http://freebies4meandu.blogspot.com/2009/05/win-finish-quantum-jet-dry-turbo-dry.html
Tweeted this contest http://twitter.com/bridget3420
My husband and I rinse all the dishes out right after using them and load them into the dishwasher. Then once it’s full, we run it. It’s a lot easier than having to scrub and it leaves our sink free.
I subscribe
I cook then hubby put the dishes in the dishwasher… and he never turns it on, not sure why! Thanks.
The routine is simple. When the children/grandchildren are over, they pick up their own dishes and put them in the dishwasher (or stack them in the sink if the dishwasher is either full or running). I unload and clean up the counters, etc. Occasionally one of them wants to cook something, so they are then responsible for cleaning up after themselves. Doesn’t alway work right, but at least they are getting the idea!
The plan is always fro everyone to load their own, but I always have to redo it. Unloading always seems to be my job too- GRRR!
I usually unload my dishwasher in the morning and then load it as the day goes on, running it in the evening.
We share the duties…sometimes I cook and clean up, sometimes he does. Ok, I seem to do it more, but he helps. And sometimes we leave the dishes and he does them the next day while I am at work. Good man!
thanks!
I do it myself. Thanks for the chance.
Our dishwashing routine is whoever gets tired of dishes in the sink first loads the washer. IF it is me then hubby goes behind me and reaaranges everything. Then I wash all the baby bottles.
member(dot)thao(at)gmail.com
I cook and do the dishes
Well, since I’m the chief cook and bottle washer, it falls to me to wash the dishes and to streamline the whole stupid thing lol – I usually rinse and stack the dishes while I’m cooking so hopefully all I’ll have to do when supper is over is turn on the washer and wipe down the stove and counters!
our routine is i cook all day and load the dish washer right afterwards. At night as we go to bed, i start it (i love the sound as we are sleeping). in the morning as the kiddo is waking up, i empty it! that is it everyday!!
Dishwashing is basically my job. Hubby may clear some dishes. If son is visiting he will clear table, put food away, and take out garbage.
Sad to say that I still mostly do it all, but my son does know how to unload the dishwasher when asked and my husband does put dishes in the dishwasher on occasion.
i do it all…i can be pretty lazy about it though
Oh – I have a good deal with the dishes! My oldest son does them M,W,F – my second son does them on T,Th – my third son takes Sat – my husband on Sun. I do them when everyone’s at school or work, but if I’ve worked it out right then all of the men in my life should have taken care of the dishes for me!
s.mickelson at gmail dot com
My husband clear, rinses and loads the dishes
I cook and clean up right after..then after eating, put all the dirty dishes in the dishwasher so I don’t have to worry about dishes piling up. Thanks.
kport207 at gmail dot com
I just twittered about your giveaway. Thanks!
http://twitter.com/alas3lads/status/1839029517
I do the majority of the cooking (husband does all the grilling). My kids have to clear their own plates and rinse them and place in the sink. I’m a little embarrassed to admit, but, I won’t usually let anyone but myself load the dishwasher. I like them loaded a certain way and prefer to do it myself. I would really love to try the turbo dry Jet Dry; wet dishes coming out of the dishwasher are a problem for me. I usually have to towel dry everything before putting away. Thanks!
Since I live alone, I run the dishwasher twice a week (Sunday and Thursday) and shove dirty dishes in there the other days of the week!
Tweeted http://twitter.com/cdziuba/status/1838760656
I do the dishes with my son, because my husband clears the table and takes cares of yard work. It’s the least I can do!
it varies. some nights dh cooks and i cleanup and other nights, i cook and cleanup. on the weekends i have my stepdaugther one of her chores is to load and unload the dishwasher.
can I say I do it all usually- and for some reason they do not know where the dishes go so they cannot unload