On Saturday, 18 July 2015 22:11:41 UTC+1, Lobster wrote:
On 18 Jul 2015, Tim Streater grunted:
In article , Lobster
wrote:

So - what does the team think about low temperature washes in a
dishwasher?

Ours has three settings - 55C 'standard'; 65C 'standard' and 65C 'for
really, really dirty pans'. When I switch it on, I use the 55C every
time; SWMBO[1] goes for the top-end 65C one. The results of both
washes are of course completely indistinguishable, but she won't have
it. Nearly drives me insane; probably the biggest single cause of
marital disharmony in our house!

[1] Of course everyone knows that no women know how to load a
dishwasher properly anyway; but that's a whole different discussion...

In ours she loads the crocks and I load the cuttles. Same is true for
unloading so we're both happy.

Ah, but handles up or down?

I put everything handles down so the business ends get cleaned, except for
sharp stuff like kitchen knives, obviously. She puts everything handles up
FFS. "But someone might fall over and get impaled on a spoon!"

People do get killed by falling onto cutlery in a dishwasher, 2 a year I vaguely half remember. With 65 million people, that 1 in 30 million event happens.

But far more people are killed by food poisoning, so its pointy bits up here. The sharpest knives can go at the back.


NT