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I think that indicated that it had continuous clean innards...can just imagine the stench. Had a cousin with one of those--it decided to clean/oxidize right as the turkey was in the oven one Christmas...made the house absolutely reek.

My mom did that when she left a pair of my brother's shoes in the oven once...dripping sole all over the place. The kicker was that the house was on the market/had just come under contract and the stove (GE Spacemaker 24" from the 50s) was the keystone to the entire kitchen and couldn't be...

yeah, between Detroit Edison's incentivizing electric cooking and GM's presence in SE Michigan they will be able to unearth something from a basement around here.

Because they are taking on the curation of a historic home from Selma, AL which was the font of a huge amount of civil rights activity. The Jacksons were a prominent local Black family whose house was really a crossroads for the Civil Rights movement in the 50s and 60s. The daughter (who was...

#85---not sure I realized Monsanto brought out Dishwasher All (thought it was a post-Lever Brothers line extension). #87...those brought back memories....my mom always had one on the kitchen sink. In the 70s they were avocado green. She didn't have (or want) a sprayer hose--those worked fine...

I am confident that the organization that Sarah speaks of working with would be able to reach out appropriately to Ecolab (and may well be told go away) but they are in the business of selling hygiene and cleaning chemicals to businesses small and large.

This would actually be a good solution to call either Economics Labs or a local cleaning supply company for professional-level advice. They would be able to help with dosing, temperature, etc etc for the type machines you have now. P&G Professional might be a good line which the volunteers...

During COVID I did a rabbit-trail around home canning customs worldwide (I think I'd come upon an old Ball Blue Book from the 40s or so). There is amazing divergence in what gets canned, when and how. If you're getting serious about canning in the US, you need to invest in a recent (last...

silicone personal lubricant may also be used to tamp down suds in a dishwasher.

Apparently Ollie's is having a laundry products sale/buyout----presumably P&G as they seem well plugged into their supply chain. Was there a few weeks ago and found some Dreft Pure (scent-free Dreft....from ingredients equal to Gain--triple enzyme) for $2.99 a bottle.

Quite likely as Detergents, Inc (which was the original name of the developer of All---absorbed by Monsanto) was in Dayton, OH just down the road from Mansfield (HQ of Westinghouse Appliances). My grandfather worked for them in Dayton for a time in the 1946-1948 timeframe (they lived down in...

Looks vaguely American Kitchens/D&M. Cabinets are Geneva. Faucet is American Standard, I think (definitely neither Moen nor Delta)

And the top is a lovely huge slab of laminated maple, nicely braced on the underside and the handle is a nice towel rack. I nabbed the one from my grandmothers build-in of hers (back in 1970!) and have designs to use it in the kitchen when and if I remodel.

TYVM for the ideas. A gallon of ammonia is quite cheap in the US (we like our cheap aqueous solutions, dontcha know...Chlorine bleach as well). The really strong stuff (25% as mentioned above) is actually used (or was used) to develop blueprints. I inherited a partially used gallon of that...

yes, Corelle fits beautifully in my 10 y.o. Bosch...side plates/saucers seem impossibly closely racked (literally only about 5/8 of an inch between tines) but Corelle fits perfectly and comes out clean. Dinner plates--about 1 inch between tines--ditto.

Very timely...I have some well-loved Schiek weightlifting gloves which are starting to get just a bit stinky as well as some Vibram Five-Fingers which I use at the gym. Tried a spot clean on the Five Fingers with some 3% hydrogen peroxide---foamed up and let them dry after blotting. Will...

yeah, with the filtering system not a bad machine. Even Consumer Reports didn't hate them. Great bottom rack.

Funny you bring that up--I was noticing that there was warm air under my DD washing machine when a cycle was complete---a little bit of a warm draft (noticeable in contrast to the cool concrete floor.

Been perfectly happy with the cheapy Ascenta (plastic bottom) Bosch we got about 10 years ago. The pump is slightly more audible than it seems it used to be, could be on it's way out, but then again the KA Superba side by side refrigerator clunks when the compressor shuts off and has done it...

We've got a very small (14 sqft) 40 year old Kenmore (WP built) refrigerator/freezer in a condo we own. It was provided at the time the condo was built (as was the stove which is also in place). Looks like the fan was replaced about 20 years ago, but am noticing that the defrost timer is...