"H. W. Hans Kuntze" wrote:


Because, if they have an airline (conveyor) type Hobart, it messes up
their water, Chuck.

That's the kind I used! Horrible object! If I remember aright, they
use industrial strength liquid detergent too (ours, I think, ran on
stuff called T-Pol), rather than the caustic stuff of the domestic
dishwasher.

Especially for the glasses.

I used to save them up and run them through separately, at the end.
Took less time than washing them by hand, they came out fine with
freshly de-bunged filters and clean water, and I just rinsed them off a
bit more with the hot water spray and they dried off fine without the
need for polishing. Got lipstick off the glasses a treat!

And the pots are much dirtier than they would get at home.

OH, BOY, YES! Urk! Burnt on stuff half an inch thick!

The cycle is much shorter too, no adequate pre-soak.
Bout 15 minutes, I seem to remember... Gave me time to load the next
basket of 50 plates...

But there is no reason, otherwise, not to run the lightly soiled pots
through the dishwasher, if there is capacity.

I do that all the time. I run loads of nothing but pots sometimes, if
there's been lots of us, or I've been cooking with lots of saucepans!

Plus, they need the dishwasher for their dishes and the pearldivers need
to be kept busy.

Loading the bugger kept me quite busy enough! My brother washed the
pots, and nothing but the pots! AND told the cook off for burning them!

My pots&pans go in the dishwasher at home (MC&Copper Classics), provided
there is room.

See above!

No problems so far since the early eighties, although the Cuisinart are
recent.

Some of my pots have been dishwashered almost daily for 15 years and
show no adverse symptoms.

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