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You could always wear a mask when you grate the soap to prevent inhaling the dust, just about everyone has a mask somewhere since the Pandemic.   I would be careful though in regularly using a homemade “detergent” made with soap in a modern automatic washer.  It could cause a build up of soap...

My cookie sheets are Nordic Ware and are aluminum. Aluminum heats more evenly than SS and bakes better cookies. I wouldn’t put a good quality aluminum cookie sheet in the DW. Of course SS wouldn’t be harmed in a DW. Eddie

Hell no, cookie sheets don't go in the dishwasher!) I completely agree with you on this Ken. Putting a good quality cookie sheet in the DW is a great way to ruin it. Eddie

Re:#13 When you cover a container of food with wax paper and then microwave it the wax stays on the wax paper, it doesn’t drip onto the food. It’s perfectly safe, unlike covering food to be nuked with plastic wrap. Wax paper is by far the safer choice. Eddie

OK, I didn’t realize that you were grating the bars yourself. In that case I’d suggest adding some washing soda and Borax along with the grated Fels Naphtha. If you do a Google search for using grated Fels Naphtha for doing laundry you’ll find several hits for both recipes that use the grated...

I didn’t know that you could buy the “grated” version of Fels Naphtha anymore. Back in 1972 when I bought my vert first washing machine, a used Maytag Model J wringer I used Fels Naphtha powder and it was wonderful! Since it’s a soap, not a detergent it left the laundry very soft and with a...

Two more great uses for wax paper are: 1. Lining the bottoms of layer cake pans, just fold a square of wax paper in half, then in half again into a triangle and then once more into a triangle, turn the pan over and place the point of the triangle in the center of the pan and then mark the edge...

I still always have wax paper on hand and use it all the time. I personally think that it’s better for wrapping sandwiches because if you wrap them properly the sandwich holds together better because it’s a closer, tighter wrap. A sandwich wrapped in a Baggie has all kinds of room to toss...

I’m old enough to remember when sliced bread was packaged and sold in wax paper wrappers, before cellophane, which was an improvement over the wax paper. Some of the kids that I went to school with even used to have their lunch box sandwiches wrapped in the wax paper bread wrappers sometimes if...

Lawrence, i don’t keep up on Horror films too well, LOL. Eddie

Freddy Kruger is in the kitchen getting ready for guests. Plus lots of black accents for Halloween. Where’ the dish of candy corn? Eddie

Ryne, Here is a You Tube video that is similar to how I wash and rinse my dishes by hand. I don’t use a dishpan like the lady in the video does, it otherwise her method is pretty much like mine. If you have a large kitchen sink like hers in the video and have a plastic dish pan you could wash...

Thanks Ryne for the validation! And yes, my washer works just like yours during the fill part of the wash cycles. Eddie

Ryne, Even though we have a twin sink I only use the left hand sink for washing and rinsing. By adding a minimal amount of hottest water to begin and allowing the hot rinse water to go into the wash water by rinsing OVER the wash water I don’t waste water. I use a very fine stream of water to...

Re:17 “Having worked in this field a long time we see mistakes all the time that manufacturers make many people on this site, including you, Eddie, know more than many manufacturers.” Well John, I just looked at the owners manual for your beloved Speed Queen TL’s and it says explicitly to...

The owners manual from the last three TL’s that I’ve owned ALL say to put the detergent in the BOTTOM of the tub before adding the laundry, NOT on top of the clothing. I can follow directions. I believe this advice is because newer TL’s have flow restrictors that don’t allow the fill water...

Ryne, I knew it would only be a matter of time before your DW started to leak when you last relayed your report about how the door wasn’t latching but the DW would still run. I rediscovered my preference for washing the dishes by hand when our DW stopped working in April 2018 and I had to...

Shutoff Valves John, Yes, everything eventually wears out. But so far in well over 10 years of use the 1/4 turn brass shutoff valves on my washing machine shutoff valves aren’t leaking. If they do, then I’ll replace them. In my mind it’s far better to assure that I won’t have a flood in my...

Turning Of Water Valves We live in a two story townhouse and the washer and dryer are on the second floor. Right after we moved in 30 years ago the next door neighbors fire alarm went off. There was no fire. Turns out one of the fill hoses on their washer failed and burst sending water down...

Re:#6 Ryne, My machine is essentially the same as yours. When I use powder or liquid detergent I always add it to the bottom of the tub first, then add the laundry to be washed on top of it. I’ve been using Ariel 2X power powdered detergent for the last 3 mo or so and I LOVE it! Doesn’t...