Six unconventional uses for it. What’s particularly amusing is that, because it’s the Internet, the comments section almost immediately degenerates into a political flame war.
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Six unconventional uses for it. What’s particularly amusing is that, because it’s the Internet, the comments section almost immediately degenerates into a political flame war.
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I’d heard all those uses before. But can anyone explain how that deteriorated so quickly into political idiocy of that level?
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Thanks wodun.
(how did you get past the “comment too short” filter?)
I’d say it started with a couple of people who only see things in a certain way. Apparently, a tool used in a non-approved manner is always a waste. Think of all the water you’re wasting when you could buy an expensive fish steamer, and waste slightly less water. Maybe. Now the conversation has veered into an absurd degree of conservatism.
Then add a zillion people who find the article over time as well as those choice bits of absurdity in comments. It’s fuel for a grand fire in the ephemeral traditions of our time.
Ever since “they” took phosphates out of Cascade dishwasher detergent, I’ll tell you another unconventional use for a dishwasher . . . cleaning dishes ! (bah-doom boom)
Do any of you guys (hey, what ever happened to Andrea?) have similar problems getting the dishwasher to clean anything? And the reason I say “guys” is I know all you guys around here are compulsive dishwasher stackers, figuring the optimum loading arrangements of cups, bowls, and plates as this is such a geek guy thing.
But it is a female thing to complain about the state of stuff coming out of the dishwasher (Has a guy ever worried about food residue left after a dishwashing cycle. It is sterilized because the dishwasher puts electric current through the dryer coils as a hot temperature booster. So as to guys worrying about a dishwasher not cleaning, I don’t think so.)
And because it is male thing to load the dishwasher and a female thing to give the Drill Instructor inspection scrutiny to stuff leaving the dishwasher, this government-mandated reformulation of the detergent has put strain on many domestic partnerships, no?
For me it’s not so much the lack of cleaning ability that the loss of phosphates has produced, it’s the damage that the replacements they’re using produces. We no longer put our Faberware sauce pans through because the bakelite handles get destroyed.
As for the loss of cleaning ability, the solution was noted by Tim Allen quite a while ago. (click to 4:20)
Paul,
thank you. I thought I was the only one suffering from the dreaded, ‘..WhyTF can’t you people fiil this &#$U* dish washer so it will take more than ONE plate, ONE fork and a ^*&E$*&^ single coffee cup!” syndrome. It’s a spatial relationship thing, most guys got it, most women don’t.
Oddly, my younger son has it, his brother does not. If he wasn’t married, or if he was a career sub sailor instead of a surface type, I might think he was batting for the other team!!!
Personally I feel that if it stood up to the hot water, the anti-bacterial soap, the rinse cycle and the drying cycle, and it’ll pick off with a knife r spoon…it’s clean!
And the ‘new and de-proved’ soap draws a vacuum!
I’ve read Internet accounts of people using dishwashers to clean guns.
I knew someone who washed computer keyboards in the dishwasher.