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Toggle, you are going to have to recuse yourself from this thread.

I've washed garbage cans, poached a salmon(badly), bath mats, refrigerator shelves, old washer parts(agitators, lint filters, boots, flumes), rhubarb for pies(gets the dirt off in 10 seconds! blanches them a little too!), and I use my Maytag to proof bread dough in the winter almost every week.

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Actually I won't have to. The maternal unit is a germ-freak, so my DW usage is pretty (*COUGH*) convervative........

How is bread proofed, in the "Dry" segment of the cycle/programme?
 
I too proof my bread in the dishwasher. You quickly unload it after a cycle, and the warm moist environment is perfect for bread.

I wash the kid's toys (top rack) no germeys left there. Those that can't be washed I bleach the hell out of.

Oh, I also do the dog's toys just in case the kid gets hold of them. and visa-versey. Don't want the doge to catch anything.
 
The hub-caps from my Dads 66 Pontiac 2+2- it was a bit difficult in the GE spacesaver, I could only do one at a time- this one was also about 1967, in shaded coppertone, & had the blue racks- Like the avacado unit in my Moms apartment, ( that one was full size ) it was very noisey! This one also would not suck the Det.Disp. door closed- why did they stop doing that?
 
use to wash my retainer and yes my cup (not the drinking one) from football in my mom old kitchenaid

But not in the same load.
 
I hate to admit this, but I put a bath mat that had been marinating in backed up drain water for a week while I had been away into my 1965 Viking top-loader (it was the 80's...) It de-slimed the bath mat nicely, though!
 
When my Mother

still smoked, she would put her empty, but still nasty ash trays in the dishwasher, until I pitched a major hissy about it. So far, to me, nothing mentioned above, can equal that in "ick."

Even though that was back in the day of Cascade with chlorine in it, and 150F water......

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
GE Mobile Maid

I would give almost anything to have that Mobile Maid in the first post. Did they do a good job? Ours did not have any buttons & if loaded right would do a fantastic job. Just think of the things I could have put in there with the pots & pans button. Mike
 
If We Don't...

...Prepare food with it, or eat off it, it does not repeat not repeat NOT go in my dishwasher. Ick ick double ick.

Took a fair spell of Husband Training, too, let me tell you.
 
This is why I like to have an old dishwasher in the basement, for things like dog bowls, auto parts (works pretty good) and it is helpful when painting when you can put switch plates and air registers and get them really clean.
 
Cascade and auto parts!

Have to say that the Cascade Powder with "advanced power" really does a number on my oil drain pan and funnel. Really eats the left over oil (of which there is actually very little as I use synthetic oil exclusively in my vehicles and let the old oil drain out of the pan for a few hours to boot)off the pan and parts without leaving any residue inside the tank at all. Now I have the even newer Cascade poweder with "Extra Action" that has the Dawn in it and am anxious to see what it does. I did some really greasy tools the other night and they came out great with the Advanced power as well.

BTW, I cannot believe the difference in our daily driver with the advanced power Cascade too. All the silverware is spotless with no food left on it and that's using the Low energy cycle on the KDS20. Two 5 min washes and two rinses and everything cleaned and spotless.
 
I remember when I worked at Dunkin Donuts, they had a Hobart dishwasher like the one Robert made a window for, but all stainless steel. It was used mostly to wash the coffee cups, but when I would clean the store and it was not busy, I would wash all the utensils in the back kitchen and sometimes, even the paddle for the mixer. Nothing else could get those parts clean as well as the Hobart and the women appreciated me doing that. Also washed the light fixture glass and the napkin dispensers too, made them shine!
 
Wavetech was a company that would solder pc poards for this place that I worked for, & the final procedure was to place these boards in dishwashers- they were kitchenaides, as I recall, & this was 1981- I think they were...15's..?
 
a little newer than 15's

I will stand corrected on this one but I think the 21's if not the 20's were the first of the Selectra models Hobart made. As we all know, heat water vapor and solid state devices rarely get along and the first ones were problematic and carried a longer warranty on them. I think maybe Andrew could help us here with the history of these.

But definitely not the 15,16,17 18 or 19's. They were straight electromechanical units.
 

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