On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:32:06 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 11/27/2015 1:23 AM, sf wrote:
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>> There are people here who actually wash their pots & pans
>> in the dishwasher. That's what I consider beyond ridiculous.
>>
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>
>Why? If there is room, I put them in. They come out nice and shiny,
>just like new. I don't always put them in because they take up a lot of
>space and if you just boiled pasta, it takes seconds to clean. OTOH, if
>you simmered sauce for a few hours, the machine does an excellent job.

I don't think so... nothing cleans a SS pot like tomato sauce, of
course if you burnt the pot you also burnt the sauce. I've never
washed any pot in a dishwasher... pots are either too large for a
dishwasher or they too small to not wash by hand. I ran my dishwasher
yesterday for the first time in about three months, all plastic
storage containers with lids that have accumulated over time, a few
plastic cutting boards, and the rack from roasting the turkey. In a
typical day there aren't enough dishes to run the dishwasher, so few
that I wash them by hand along with the silverware and a pot or two
plus some cat food bowls in ten minutes. Even when there's company I
wash by hand because then the dinnerware and glassware is too good to
go into the dishwasher. I use one glass a day, in the evening and it
goes in the sink before retiring for the night, gets washed by hand in
the morning with my coffee mug and a few cat food bowls. I've been
washing by hand all my life, I honestly can live without a
dishwasher... if I run it six times a year that's a lot. The reason I
amass all those plastic containers is because they are for storing
meat drippings from roasts in the fridge to mix with the outside cat's
food... all the turkey dripping are in the fridge now, enough for like
3-4 days. I don't like washing plastic containers by hand as meat fat
seems to leave a coating on plastic no matter how hot the water and
how much liquid soap... even the dishwasher misses some as no matter
how carefully I load them some flip over... out of about thirty
containers three are back for rewashing, and one went in the trash as
it was too mishapen from the heat and I don't run the dry cycle with
plastic so they come out all wet, I have to shake the water off each
one and arrange them on towels to air dry. There have been many times
I've saved up half a load of dishes and then two/three days later
removed them to hand wash just because I had the hot water up and was
hand washing pots anyway. Lee Valley has the best rubber gloves, have
two pair I've been using for twenty years and are still like new
(great for car washing too), and not made in China, made in Mexico:
http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/pag...99&cat=1,42207