The druggies were using it to cook some wild form of speed from it. I heard the formula included Cascade, Anhydrous Ammonia fertilizer and drain cleaner.
My wife has been using a little vinegar at the right point in the washing cycle to make the glasses come out clean.
i gave up trying to get tsp because they removed the phosphates.
The white film on the dishes are bad, but the real award winner was back in the late 80’s when the EPA forced everyone to buy 1.6 gallon toilets without grand-fathering for older homes with older plumbing pipes.
The suggested “fix” for the problem (always after the facts, and giving new definition to the term “hind-sight”), was purchasing another toilet that contained a Sloan valve. Remember the loud, roaring flush of those commercial/industrial toilets in high school???- That was a Slone valve toilet.
So, those engineering geniuses at the EPA made sure you had a choice- Your toilet bowl would either runnethed over (and it wasn’t with love), or, you had the 10:32 freight train locomotive running through your bathroom whenever someone flushed.
THANKS for this topic. I have been using Electrosol for years. Never had a problem. Recently (january 2014) supermarket stopped selling Electrosol and only offered Cascade. Within two uses of the Cascade, the inside of my dishwasher had a terrible white film all over the stainless steel, on my pans, cutlery and a powdery film on everything else. I am SO UPSET. I felt like crying. You would not believe the mess of my dishes and cookware. I cannot get this film off my stainless and my dishwasher always sparkled is now ruined from the Cascade. I used both the powder cascade and another time the tablets which left black streaks on my animal stainless dishes. SO UPSET. I wrote to Cascade and complained at the supermarket. I found one place that sells Electrosol so i ordered more and plan on keeping a lot in hand. I will also try the TSP that you have suggested. When i found this thread, i never realized this problem has been going on since 2011.