Washing Cucumbers

[supersurgilator]

Have you ever seen anything like this? LOL

 

[toggleswitch2]

Mother always said keep the cucumbers scrupulouly clean. After all they will end up in the mouth!

Nice! Let me put bloody,urine soaked feces-laden underwear and swat sained tshirts in there and then place my food in there.

No thanks.

 

[perc-o-prince]

"Let me put bloody,urine soaked feces-laden underwear and swat sained tshirts"...OH MY! You do see a lot of action

Rich

 

[toggleswitch2]

*SMACK* LOL LOL LOL

 

[appnut]

Oh brother. That was agitating at gentle speed. If she put it on regular speed, they'd get automatically sliced, diced,a nd shredded.

 

[toggleswitch2]

R U Kidding? I'm 'married' 3.5 years!

After 5 years what is the difference between a job and a spouse?

After five years the job still sucks.

 

[nmassman44]

I am sooooo glad that Rich said that and not me...I was thinking it though. I will have to remember when I meet Toggles to bring him an English Cucumber since he is such a size queen....

 

[toggleswitch2]

I am?

Bigger is better only when it applies to one's savings account and 'heart'!

 

[yogitunes]

OUTSTANDING!....

my mother had a contraption that went on her wringer washers agitator, you would lay mason jars in the slots, and turn on the agitation, and it would churn butter...

multi-tasking-appliances

WHATS NEXT?......washing my socks in the blender....can you say SHREDMORE?

come on, you gus have to have a few tricks up your sleeves?

microwave your skivvies dry...can you say STEAM DRYER?...don't laugh, this is probably where they got the idea from, and now their making millions off it!

 

[yogitunes]

one more..................SALAD SPINNER!

And we won't touch any ideas for the vacuum!....you know who you are!!!lol

 

[nmassman44]

I know Toggles thats your story and your sticking to it....lol.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Can't wait till we meet in person.

You're either gonna get a big hug...or a smack upside your head! LOL

The jury is still out.

uhm why haven't you been to R&C's Mass. gatherings? Huh? HUH? HUH? If I can get there from lower New York State, what's YOUR excuse?

 

[sudsman]

You're either gonna get a big hug...or a smack upside yo

he might like both be careful!

 

[rp2813]

My mom made dill pickles too, and always used the washer tub but only as a holding tank. The cukes still got scrubbed with a brush. Maybe this was because we had the '67 Signature/Norge that didn't know the meaning of gentle. It sure could hold a lot of cucumbers, though, which is the only good thing I can say about that machine.

 

[mielabor]

Cucumbers? Look more like gherkins to me...

 

[sikiguya]

All I can say is E Coli........so nasty!!!!!!!!

 

[mtn1584]

Clothes washer

There is a reason why it's called a "clothes washer" because you're supposed to wash clothes in it, Other wise it would be called a Whirlpool Super Capacity Plus Three Speed Combination CUCUMBER Washer!!!!! WHY? WHY? WHY?
Mike

 

[frigilux]

Didn't realize people still did this in the age of (your fave bacterial pariah here).

My mom was coerced into trying this once, circa '73, when she and our next door neighbor (who also had a 1960 Kenmore; the alphabet model) made a huge batch of pickles together at our house. Blanche (the neighbor) used this method all the time and insisted they do it, much to my mom's horror.

I remember her running a Rinse & Spin cycle with a little liquid chlorine bleach before putting the cucumbers in for their wash-up. I also recall them adding a couple of flour-sack dish towels to help pull off dirt and spines from the cukes.

She never did it again. But she did have to admit it worked well and saved them a lot of scrubbing time.

I'm with the general consensus: Washing machines are for clothes.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Mammy's Shanty restaurant above Atlanta used a modified front loader to wash "greens" because front loaders excelled at sand removal. I ran a bleach rinse through a friend's Kenmore before using it to rinse and spin spinach for the salad for a huge party. Nobody got sick or died.

 

[lordkenmore]

If the woman in this video is making real pickles (that is, sealed in jar via a boiling water bath), I'd have to assume that any washing machine germs would get killed. Still, I don't think I could see myself doing this...germs killed or not, I find it a little creepy.

 

[mtn1584]

IT IS A "C L O T H E S - W A S H E R," a machine to wash your laundry/dirty clothes in. I AM SORRY I DON'T GET IT. My grand parents were form Italy, had vegetable gardens, etc. The only thing that went in to the machine was clothes.
MIKE

 

[strongenough78]

Ok I can see doing that, if you bought a brand new machine, like bottom of the line, and used it ONLY for that. The thought of putting food where dirty underwear, socks, and other clothes have been kind of grosses me out. I MIGHT feel better knowing that the machine was bleached and rinsed thoroughly first, but yeah....I doubt it.

 

[iheartmaytag]

At my Nephew's graduation party, my sister used her washer as a big ice chest.

She filled the big Mongtomery-Norge up with ice and pop. When the party was over and the ice melted she just did a quick spin and was ready for the table cloths.

Didn't appear to be much germ transfer, most everyone at the party is still alive.

 

[thomasortega]

I'm not sure If I had or hadn't posted it before...
just in case, here it goes...

Would you drink this "caipirinha" made in a washing machine?

 

[thomasortega]

... or maybe this one, made in a concrete mixer...

(at least this version was made by the concrete mixer manufacturer using a never used concrete mixer.

 

[iheartmaytag]

When My sister used her washer as an Ice Chest

The pop was in cans. No contact with the outside world.

 

[hunter]

it's not the germs....it's the SOAP!

How many of us have some caked on soap SOMEWHERE in the washer? I daresay almost everyone...

I don't worry about the germs so much (though honestly they are an issue I think) but soap in your pickles?

No thanks.

I've done whole bushels of pickles and it really isn't that big of a deal to scrub them - just soak them for a bit FIRST and the dirt loosens.

Hunter (who would love the 'problem' of butchering an elk this year)

 

[tolivac]

GROSS!!Now if you set the washer to fast agitate speed-will we get pickel relish?

 

[runematic]

Unless this machine was purchased to just do this, I wouldn't want any of those cukes. Here is a shot of what 95% of the direct drive machines we take apart to clean look like. I don't care how clean you are or think you are, buildups of "stuff" happens. A simple rinse will not get rid of this "goodness."