Disclosure: I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Cascade. I received a product sample to facilitate my review and a promotional item as a thank you for participating.
Some people love to clean. I am not one of those people. While I like the results that come from cleaning the house, I find tasks like laundry, dishes and cleaning bathrooms mundane and boring and worst of all...ENDLESS!! I can clean the whole kitchen, walk away for 3 minutes and come back to a plate, a knife with jelly on it and a half a glass of milk sitting in the sink that I just emptied! AAUUGGHHH!! Thank freaking GOSH for dishwashers!
When I moved into this rental house, the dishwasher that was here looked like one of the first models ever made and sounded like a Mack Truck was driving around our kitchen every night. I would load it with dirty plates and start it up, then cross my fingers that it would actually clean them. The results were a crap shoot. Some days I won, some days I lost.
Then one day that beastly dishwasher died and I rejoiced aloud about the new replacement that arrived a week later! It was shiny and new and I was sure I would never see a dirty dish come out of that dishwasher after running a clean cycle again.
I was wrong. On more than one occasion I have opened my new dishwasher after a two hour cycle to find my plates covered with "washed food
particles or my drinking glasses covered with a hazy residue. So...I concluded it must be a detergent problem and not an appliance problem and started experimenting with dish washing soaps and tabs.
As luck would have it, I was asked to review new Cascade Platinum Pacs
this month! I know! The timing could not have been better. Now that
my kids are taking more responsibility with the dishes, I sometimes find
that in their desire to speed through the chore of loading the
dishwasher, the rinsing of dirty dishes doesn't always happen like it
should. Ok, fine. I never rinse the dishes either. But at least I
knock off the big chunks. Cascade Platinum Pacs are our new best
friend, as they are specially formulated with an increased enzyme power
that eats through food particles better than anything I have tried so
far. There was not one speck of food left on anything in that
dishwasher when we emptied it after using the Platinum Pacs. Not. One.
Yay!!
The
other thing we noticed immediately after using the Cascade Platinum
Pacs is that our dishes come out sparkling and shiny! Platinum Pacs
contain surfectants and chelant/polymer systems that prevent hard water
spots or hazy film on glasses or silverware. My dishes look almost
new again! I love not having to apologize to my guests while I wipe the
spots off the drinkware before serving them a beverage! How
unappetizing is that?!
Gail Simmons, Top Chef judge and editor of Food-Wine
Magazine, agrees that perfect presentation is an important part of
entertaining and she has partnered with Cascade to share her thoughts
and ideas on how to beautifully present your culinary creations.
I love Gail's comment about impressing with a Platinum Presentation, because it's something I kind of struggle with:
“The easiest recipes pop with unexpected, gourmet presentations. Drizzle bright sauces on sparkling white plates or layer desserts in crystal-clean glassware. Keep your presentation sparkling with Cascade Platinum, which keeps dishes perfect for anytime entertaining and impromptu guests.”
Cascade "My Platinum" Contest
With the advent of social media, everyone can post great photos of their best kitchen efforts these days. Food photography is everywhere! To celebrate the launch of their newest product, Cascade is holding a 4 week Instagram contest encouraging fans to upload photos related to the weekly contest themes listed below for a chance to win a $10,000 Kitchenaid Kitchen Makeover! I know, right? $10,000 could do a lot for my poor little kitchen!
Week 1: (Week 1 is over) My Platinum Plate (Entry Period: 6/3-6/9) - Show us your best dish styled from the sparkling plate up!
Week 2: My Platinum Bite (Entry Period: 6/10-6/16) – Show us your best bite and most creative use of sparkling silverware!
Week 3: My Platinum Clink (Entry: 6/17-6/23) – Show us how you serve up creative concoctions in sparkling glasses. Cheers!
Week 4: My Platinum Table (Entry Period: 6/24-6/30) – Show us your sparkling tablescape for your most special celebrations!
You do need to register before you enter, but it just takes a few minutes to that. And you will need to upload the photos to Instgram and use the hashtag #MyPlatinum” as well as tag @MyCascade. More information about the contest can be found on the contest’s official page.
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