17 Surprising Things You Can Put In The Dishwasher .... Uhh maybe not.

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Have put these electronic parts in a dishwasher----Patchbays--but rinse and dry them off after running thru the dishwasher.forced air cooled ceramic power tubes--the washer blasts the dirt,dust and dead cooked bugs out of the tube's radiator!Vacuum capacitors-at least smaller ones-fixed values.Gets 'em clean.If you do variable ones-you will have to relube the tuning leadscrew.
 
We wash the microwave turntable glass, ceramic toothbrush holder, water pik water reservoir all in the dishwasher. I have heard that the dishwasher is also good for washing sex toys in. Sue from "Talk Sex with Sue" always recommended that.
 
I had heard about cooking salmon in the dishwasher but I was more interested in the list of what not to put in. I've never owned a dishwasher and as the years go by the list of reasons for not having one gets longer!
 
Keyboards, Toys, refrigerator shelves, hard surface non tissue sportgears, car parts, A/c vents and also filters (warm delicate wash), kitchen brushes, window screens, dryer screens (I do that), hairbrushes, kitchen knobs, dust pan and hand held plastic broom, cabinets knobs...
OK! Always did that, all the rest just not! Caps and shoes goes in the washer.
 
I've placed keyboards, dishwashing brushes, hair-brushes (on "Heavy" cycle, equivalent to Sani as it keeps >66*C (Actually about 71*C) for more than 10 minutes), vent-hood filters and maybe my toothbrush in there.

 

If you scrub a lot of vegetable material with your brush - they can discolour quite badly. A very hot cycle with a good detergent bleaches them white as clouds with no effort on your behalf.

 

Keyboards - It works, but the keys get "crunchy" afterwards, and don't work as well. So it might be prudent to pop the keycaps and regrease them all. Allow to dry for SEVERAL days afterwards. I killed a keyboard by connecting it too soon after washing

 

One YouTube user even went so far as to put a whole computer in there - A hot cycle with harsh detergent would the only way to remove Nicotine stains from all the computer bits.

Allow plenty of drying time, of course. You don't want those capacitors going "POP!" on you :)
 
Not the dishwasher, but...

My daughter's mother once lost her new and expensive hearing aid, a then TOL Siemens 604PP. She looked everywhere... and nothing. Suddenly at 3am she wakes up screaming, "OH MY GOD!!!" and runs down to the basement.

It was in a pair of freshly laundered sweatpants. It had gone through a wash and a dry cycle in the Maytags. Not only did the hearing aid work, she claimed it actually functioned better than before. The audiologist said Siemens were well built but suggested she not try it again, lol.

Best guess is that the wash cycle cleaned out wax build-up that eludes even the most diligent home cleaning.

That was an analog hearing aid as no digitals at the time were powerful enough for her. I wonder if today's digitals could handle a wash and dry? Yes, today there ARE waterproof hearing aids, but there weren't back then. For you tech guys, I believe max gain of the 604PP was 80 dB and max output was something ridiculous like 143dB, both @ 1kHz. Compared to most hearing aids of that time, there was little distortion even at output levels approaching maximum. Subjectively it was by far the clearest hearing aid I'd ever listened to. The T-coil totally kicked ass as well.

Jim
 
Computer in the dishwasher-this is extreme!!!Please note some electronic components DO NOT have waterproof seals on their leads-the forced water in a dishwasher will wreck only havoc!!Mil Spec components are watertight.And yes,if water gets into caps-----POP!!!!!And other things go POP---too.Wouldn't recommend that.The dishwasher detergent can corrode the parts,too.
 
Computer in the dishwasher-this is extreme!!!Please note some electronic components DO NOT have waterproof seals on their leads-the forced water in a dishwasher will wreck only havoc!!Mil Spec components are watertight.And yes,if water gets into caps-----POP!!!!!And other things go POP---too.Wouldn't recommend that.The dishwasher detergent can corrode the parts,too.
 
I've actually put most of those things through the dishwasher, with the exception of shoes, caps (these go in the washing machine) and salmon. The fridge shelves, oven racks and the vent grill's from the cooker hood all go through the dishwasher faily regularly. Brings them up a treat.

I have also put my computer keyboard through the dishwasher. As long as you make sure it's bone dry before you plug it back in, it's fine.
 
Computer in the Dishwasher

Here's proof. I honestly wouldn't be bothered trying to scrub all that crap out myself. The creator of the video has advocated this process for computers that would otherwise be dead - sometimes, you can wash "ick" off the motherboard that might prevent the machine from working (Tested on a Dell Optiplex).

 

Still, here it is.



 

Keyboard in the Dishwasher: (In the identical Miele to what I used over Christmas!)

 
I've cleaned refrigerator shelves, refrigerator bins, oven knobs, exhaust fan filters, FL washer detergent drawer, microwave turntable glass, dish brushes, assorted plastic appliance parts, bathroom accessories, the rubber gasket in the garbage disposal ring collar, all without any problems.

My DW is a Bosch, without exposed heating coils, and have never had any "top rack only" issues when washing unusual items.
 
OMG....looks like his house went through a tornado!!!!! How can you live like that?
Anyway.....
There's no way I gonna do that..... Ok for scrap computer to extract nobile metals out of components without having to deal with the grime inside, but...on new or working computers? Do not really think they're going to work again...or everything like before...
I find washing a computer simply *crazy*..... well at least soooo weird.
Am not technologically skilled, but I imagine some componets being hurt badly enough from water.
Not sure about a keyboard, all I know is that once I spilled some root beer on my old Dell, plugged cord and battery out as fast as I could, well...it went crazy anyway and I had keyboard typing random series of numbers and letters when pressing single letters, didn't bother to fix it as it costed me more than what was worrh, it was old and had a new replacement one...but was sorry as it was a damn good PC ans had lot of memory, not sure if it makes any difference it was a PC and not a single keybord, anyway at work I have a silicon foldable keyoboard as I work with metals and particles always gets stuck in it...now I don't have this prob anymore and can wash it with a sponge or cloth when dirty.
Some people are uncomfortable using soft silicon keybords though....
 
Look, as a follower of this person's channel, he is not happy about people that have nothing better than to cry about the mess. Everyone has a cross to bear - and those sorts of "self-righteous" comments highlight flaws in ones character.
If you live in a small house, with 5 people, it's bound to get bad.

It's honestly not my business to decide how one should live. If you're happy and not hurting others (and actually recycling a ton of computers), then I don't see an issue.
 
I lived in a 80 sq mt apt with 4 people, with a mother during last years of her life often too tired and taken down by her illness(dilatative cardio-miopathy), and know it's not easy, but not to be a bitch, but that's not simply messy house....that's a pigsty.
I found myself at 14 years old taking care of my family, father and sister which she never touched a pan, a dishwasher or something before.....nor my father...
Let's say I was prone to house-care jobs as I loved it since I was little and did that since I was little, but think if I were not I couldn't anyway reach such a level of mess nor could my sis if she was alone....not saying am any better than him, I think I should know his background and life to really have an opinion about his person etc....
Looks like he lives with a "special" person.....also, brother? Son? It must not be easy...but not an excuse not to do a load in the Kenmore with some pans located kinda everywhere before the computer, put away the 4 or 5 soda bottle and various junks scattered around, give a clean to the tacky fryer on the stove....and gosh, that cabinet, is that a mayonnaise jar laying among only lord knows what?
Everyone's a cross to bear, everyone lacks in something, nobody's perfect, yes right, not for this a critic should not be taken as a chance to better something, a push to move on whatever your issue is, or also something to laugh about, he does that by referring to his "domestic" kitchen, like something to be proud of..well it hardly seems a kitchen to me, .that looks unhealty for his sake,well not sure like the ones you see on "How clean is your house" tv show....those people got real serious problems and need immediate help, but still an enviroiment you could do really something about to improve your life...not what social service could define healthy anyway, I think.
I could not really live like that and cannot figure how he can.....i would freak out in zero time., and cannot help to say that... Strange me or strange him? Let's speak objectively... Unusual without doubts, let's face it.
Not to judge furterly, he could do whatever he wants, even sleeping in the bathtub sorrounded by piles of dirty socks or brushing his teeth in the toilet...but really, let's be honest, you cannot shoot a video in an house like that and expect the average person used to "western" world cleaning standards would not comment or say really anything about. Well, if not adjectives like "nasty"... At least unusually exceptionally messy? Well it is...you can't really deny it is.
Then you could have all the exaplanations possible, like: "I work 10 hours a day and have 3 childrens and a special brother to take care of"... That would be kinda one, but just don't get pissed if someone comments at firstm is an objective comment that comes spontaneously, not out of evilness but simply objective.
I wonder if
Instead spending time taking the cam making videos he could shoot another day, why don't do a nice cleaning around? Would not it best objectively speaking of hygiene and average prioriities? Considerations....
Then as said he can do what he wants.......his life....His house..

Not all critics comes to harm though.....
 
I've watched the video - And you know there are far worse places than this person's kitchen. I have family that proves that (And isn't just stuff not organised. We're talking farm-yard junk here).

The other issue: Why be so utterly pedantic about a high-traffic area. Its like people who buy TOL SUV's and the like, then are afraid of getting them dirty. Its gonna get messy - so keep it clean, but if your organisation works, it works.

 

Anyway - fact of the matter is, you CAN place these parts in a dishwasher. Its a shame there wasn't an update as to whether the machine is still working.

If you're dealing with something that has 'no hope,' then this is a worthwhile investment!

 

I've managed to toast a keyboard with the dishwasher. Unfortunately, someone else plugged it in *without* my "blessing," and now it spits out jolly everything under the sun when you try to type... Sometimes its quite funny. It wasn't to begin with :P
 

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