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Our water is only about 120º (tempered). I know the solar water heater can go upwards of 160º on a good, sunny day!

 

However, the difference is our machines do heat water. Being alone for a week, the machine wasn't used until the day before "normal" household of 3-4 persons resumed. First night, had guests and made Apple Pie - which was the perfect recipe for 'concrete' after 4-5 days. Then the usual contingent of plates, coffee cups and glasses. 

Machine ran and every came clean in one hour, without rinsing. 

 

Guess it goes to show how things can be when the low usage is put to good use :)
 
"...and declared the body so vile that it should only be undressed for bathing once or twice in a lifetime. Jews of course, continued bathing, did not get sick and were then killed for causing Christians to become ill."

Interesting.

1.In Poland the plague rates were rather lower than other comparably sized cities.

2. Large Jewish population because of religious freedom laws that were less oppressive than most other countries.

3. Roman Catholicism was chosen for political reasons after Muslim and Orthodox emissaries were turned down around 950AD.

4. There's a cultural avoidance of washing/bathing in or drinking from non-moving water. Not an aversion... more like it just isn't on the radar for some reason.

I wonder if any of the above had any role in the fact that death rates from the plague were lower in Polish cities than in other comparably sized ones in Europe.

There's a confounding factor: That particular type of wheat (can't remember name) to make the white bread that was the rage in Europe in the 1300's never quite caught on as much. Barley and rye were still staples. As a result, when the plague hit, the % of the population that was malnourished was rather lower than in most of Europe. IIRC, most of the Baltic cities had lower consumption of that wheat and also had lower death rates. Connections?

Jim
 
Pre-rinsing

It can take several days to fill the GE MM and one does not pre-rinse yet everything comes out totally clean. No wait, I tell a lie. Do rinse out coffee or tea cups and wine glasses. Otherwise the "drips" stain that Plastisol lining. Other than not, no pre-rinsing period.

Maytag had a television commercial for their dishwashers years ago. It featured a young mother pre-washing/rinsing dishes before placing them into the DW while her young daughter watched.

Daughter - Mom, what are you doing?
Mother - I'm washing the dishes.
Daughter - I thought the dishwasher washed the dishes....
Mother - It does sweety... as she continues doing what she was doing...

Voice over - It does if it is a Maytag....

Never understood then nor now why I should stand over a sink of dishes and rinse them before going into an appliance supposedly purchased to relive one of that task. If am gong to stand there and rinse dishes might as well get out a bottle of washing up liquid and be done with things.
 
Anything with salt is rinsed off anything metal, whether it is flatware or cookware if they are not going to be washed immediately, not that the soil won't come off, but to prevent pitting of the metal. When things were different and the dishwashers were run daily, it was not so much of a concern, but now I don't want to damage the Oneida Paul Revere knives used to spread mustards, mayo or hummous or the few pieces of cookware that go in the dishwasher. If the sterling is not hand washed immediately after use, it is similarly rinsed to prevent damage. I am not running a cleaning contest with my dishwashers which are very good. I am merely taking proper care of precious household furnishings, as I was taught to do while growing up.
 
Blossom would have been a fabulous neighbor, but her new Thunderbird wouldn't have fit through the driveway....

(thanks, haven't heard that song before!)
 
I apologize for my ramblings in #20

Clearly I was more asleep than awake when I wrote it. My intent was to express agreement with Tom in #16 and to add that the cities that had the higher death rates tended to share the following characteristics:
1. The Church ruled.
2. No bathing because the body is vile.
3. Population favored white bread and the what it came from, often to the exclusion of other grains. Not a good plan for the Little Ice Age....
4. "blame the jews" mentality

Cities that had lower death rates tended not to have those characteristics. Oh, wow. Cities with a lower % of filthy, malnourished people had a lower death rate. What a surprise.

I'll stick with warm and hot water, thank you.

Jim
 
But Jim, you must remember that rationality and evidence-derived conclusions that in later centuries would be called the scientific theory were and still are anathema to most religions, especially to the people that run them and their most deluded, I mean dedicated or just brain-dead followers. When the faithful come clamoring about their plight to the leaders of the church, the easiest thing to do is to deflect the rage onto another group. Just like today, all kinds of yet to happen disasters have already been pinned on the LGBT community because of perceived political and numerical weakness, much like the Jewish community of old. You let that shit start today and I will be at the head of the line applying for an open carry permit. I am not an accurate shot, but I can scare the shit out of multitudes with my inaccuracy. If I have to die, I am damn sure taking enough with me to get the group rate wherever we are headed.
 
Dishwashers that actually use HOT WATER and phosphated deteregent ( Bubble Bandit comes to mind}.

Washing machines that actually use water and lots of it! WARM WATER with cold rinses.
Gallons of water! If you live somewhere where water is a problem, get a wringer machine and wash several loads in the same water. It saves water and detergent and gets your clothes CLEAN. My ranting is done, sorry! Gary

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