Yes, me too.
It's also very good for phone handset cords and extension cords and loads of other things that are dirtier or harder to wash by hand than dishes and glasses. Makes most of them look like new.
I can see that cork seals could dry out, and maybe natural rubber, by why should water keep synthetic rubber from drying out? It's not water-based!!
Extension cords! Why didn't I think of that!
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I haven't seen the science regarding this, yet.
--Winston
On Thu 03 Sep 2009 08:05:44p, Charlie told us...
I'm very sorry for your loss, Charlie... You've gotten some good advice and good suggestions, but I'll add my two bits. :-)
First, I'll second the advice that if the dishwasher is not used periodically it will deteriorate in various ways.
We're a household of two, and usually run the dishwasher at least once daily. I don't like to wash anything by hand if I can avoid it, so pots and pans, along with the dishes and silverware go in, as well as the food bowls for our five cats. When all that's included it's usually a full load. On the weekends we usually cook more, so run perhaps two loads.
Aside from the normal things, *almost* anything around the house that you can wash by hand can be washed in the dishwasher and it does a better job. Periodically I gather up all the washable decorative objects around the house (crystal, porcelains, glass, silver, brass, etc.) and everything is beautifully clean. Some things I hand dry to avoid spotting. Note: do not put pewter objects in the dishwasher. Also, do not put dishes or porcelains with gold trim in the diswasher unless it's certified dishwasher safe. It can remove the gold. I also remove the upper rack and wash and sterilize our kitchen and bathroom trash cans.
Put it to good use, Charlie, and save yourself some work.
Me too. Aside from the fact that the dishwasher does a better job than me without glasses, or with fogged up glasses.
If it is hot I'll go a step further and push the delay button so it heats up the kitchen at 2am.
Jim
Also:
He has a one person dinner. Wash the few items by hand, rinse and place them in the dish rack, and use them again the next meal.
That is true for a fried egg or hot dog and beans, but when you have four mixing bowls, utensils, pots, etc, put the stuff for couple of meals together and push the button.
It is well documented that you use less water in a full machine than doing the equivalent by hand. With two of us, the machine is full and runs usually every other day, sometimes more.
on 9/6/2009 10:47 AM (ET) Ed Pawlowski wrote the following:
How about electricity? My dishwasher runs for 40 minutes, electrically heating the water and pumping it through the sprayers. Hands don't use electricity to run.
No, but if you are on a well like I am, that pump sure does.
-- aem sends...
Hands aren't electrically powered themselves, but what about all the electricity used to prepare the food you eat?
As the OP I appreciate all of the responses and maybe we all learned a little from the post. I still find it easier for me to do the few by hand but may find other uses as suggested. At 86 I'm still active enough to not be in a nursing home but it may not be for long and I shouldn't be worried about a dishwasher. Thanks All
Well; even if it uses one kilowatt, continuously for 40 mins. which it does not, the cost here would be about 6 cents. But since that amount of electrical consumption is most unlikely one could estimate say a maximum of 3 to 4 cents, for electricity. And most likely less water usage than washing dishes by hand! My DW is run once about every 3 to 4 days; typically say twice to three times a week! So say ten cents a week, or approx. $36 - $40 per year?
Best wishes, Charlie.
--Winston
You're the second one to mention keyboards. Hard to believe. I'll have to get up nerve to wash my keyboard, but I guess I wiill. Once I stop using a keyboard, there's no point in not washing it.
I got to hamfests and buy keyboards for 1 dollar for regular, and I think it's now 2 dollars, sometiems more, for ones with extra keys.
BEcause I know the accelerator keys for browser functions, like cntl-R for Reload, and alt-left (or right) arrow for Back (or Forward) I only use the volume and mute keys, but they are much easier than clicking on the icon in the systray. So I only use these enhance keyboard now and my dirty fingers make them very dirty. And they are not so easy to find at hamfests at that price. So I guess I'll try it.
Seems like it shoudl take several years to dry but maybe not!
When I was losing my hair, that got all over the keyboards too, but I guess I was able to remove all that. I lost a lot of hair from age 50 to 56 or so, but I'm 62 and it stopped coming out a few years ago.
And I still have a full head of hair It's just about 60% (or maybe more) thinner. But my hairline is just where it was when I was 20, and my hair color is still brown. My beard has a little more grey, where the blond used to be, but it's 60 or 70 or 80% brown too.
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Keyboard washing hints- Turn the 'heat dry' feature OFF. Take them out as soon as wash cycle is over, and shake out as much water as you can. Set them to dry outside in sunlight, preferably leaned up on end against a wall, for at least a day. If too cold and rainy out, use a sunny window, and leave a fan blowing on them.
Not all of them will survive, but most will. And as you said, this is something you do to 'nothing left to lose' keyboards. My 20+ year old OmniKey 104, I'll still field-strip and wash by hand, but is is designed to be servicable, unlike modern disposable keyboards.
-- aem sends...
On Sun 06 Sep 2009 04:51:44a, HeyBub told us...
After spilling an entire glass of iced tea (no sugar) into my IBM keyboard, I tried washing it in the dishwasher. I used no detergent, and removed it before the drying cycle. I gently shook out all liquid, then left the keyboard to dry both upside down and right side up for several weeks. It never worked again.
Thanks, I think I would have thought of that, but I never ever use the heat dry feature anyhow. Extra money and I'm in no hurry. I do open the door and pull out the top rack so the door doesn't close back.
Only a day maybe. Not five years. That's good. Otherwise I would have had to start five years ago.
I don't like disposable but I finally understand it. Most people will throw things away anyhow, so they might as well not waste effort making it seviceable.
BTW, I do make an effort to keep my hands clean but two years or 3 at most still makes them dirty. And really hard to clean without a dishwasher.
BTW, I read that putting a cellphone that's gotten wet or gone underwater, into a ziploc bag with a bunch of uncooked rice will draw the water out of the phone -- I'm sure of that -- and make the phone work some times. Might work for a machine washed keyboard too, although you'd need more rice. :)
You could say that, but ten cents a week is about 5 dollars a year.
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