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Question for all of the wise ones--

Flysure1

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I have wondered this before but I am asking ---how does a dishwasher get a pan clean that sets on the rack tips, wouldn't any area that is resting on the shelves trap a tiny bit of food/bacteria under it, especially a heavy glass dish?---is there enough pressure to lift the dish a tiny bit????----just wondering
 
"Flysure1" said:
I have wondered this before but I am asking ---how does a dishwasher get a pan clean that sets on the rack tips, wouldn't any area that is resting on the shelves trap a tiny bit of food/bacteria under it, especially a heavy glass dish?---is there enough pressure to lift the dish a tiny bit????----just wondering


Your question will be answered best by one of our female members. Have patience.
 
"daveSanborn" said:
Your question will be answered best by one of our female members. Have patience.

It already was

"Bite Me" said:
I would think most bacteria would be killed by the heat and soap more so than the water or pressure

:lol :lol :lol :nta
 
"Epperstang" said:
From a woman...
My dishwasher never stacks dirty pans.
He scrubs every surface.
Mike - get back to the sink!

LOL!
J.

I think that's got to be the funniest thing I've heard from Joyce in 5 years. That was a good one! :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
 
"beach pony" said:
I think that's got to be the funniest thing I've heard from Joyce in 5 years. That was a good one! :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Shuddup and dry! :lol :lol
 
"Flysure1" said:
I have wondered this before but I am asking ---how does a dishwasher get a pan clean that sets on the rack tips, wouldn't any area that is resting on the shelves trap a tiny bit of food/bacteria under it, especially a heavy glass dish?---is there enough pressure to lift the dish a tiny bit????----just wondering

OK...a serious answer. You notice how loud dishwashers are? Yeah, and they vibrate quite a bit. It's possible that a tiny piece of material trapped between a pot or pan and the rack tips may not be washed off, but usually, dishes, pots, and pans move a slight amount in the dishwasher. The pressure spray from the washer itself is probably enough to vibrate the pots around ever so slightly.
 
Randy I was thinking water pressure, I never thought about vibration, I figured the heat would kill most bacteria, but there could be an almost microscopic bit left if something didn't move them during the process of washing and rinsing---thanks
 
I'm surprised you guys overlooked this, but I'm sure that the size of the rack on your dishwasher would have to be taken into consideration!
 
I can't believe so called "men" are even discussing washing dishes :ga
 
"70_Fastback" said:
I was not referring to the appliance.

Who says racks aren't appliances? They:

Perform a necessary function;
Come in a variety of styles;
Make your life better; And
Can be rented, leased or bought.
 
There's another issue at work here, as well...Prepare to be disturbed.

"Clean" is not an absolute term. It's certainly not the same as "sterile" which is why they tell you not to wash baby bottles in the dishwasher, because dish washing (be it mechanical or manual) is not a sterilizing process.

There is bacteria all over the place all the time. Very very rarely do we eliminate it entirely, and usually only for medical purposes (including the attempt to reduce bacterial contact for newborns)

The area of the human body from the belly button down past the thighs (maybe about what a pair of male boxers would cover) is TEEMING, just TEEMING with bacteria. Even as you step out of the shower, your lower body is absolutely covered in bacteria. NASTY bacteria as well. This is why it's a good idea to wash up even if you're just taking a leak. "I didn't pee on my hands" TRUE, but you did touch a very nasty part of the human body.

However, let's examine another truth...guys have been known, from time to time, to allow a certain part of that very bacterial area to enter the mouth of a willing partner, generally female, but hey, whatever gets you off. Now between longterm partners a sort of "equalization" occurs where both partners essentially have the same bacterial fauna, and a person is very unlikely to become sick due to their own bacterial infestation (because these bacteria all come from our intestinal tract, and our immune system has figured out how to protect us from them), so with a longterm partner, the "giver's" chances at becoming ill from this fellative activity are very low, HOWEVER, as we all know (some more than others) it's also very common for this activity to occur between people who are NOT longterm partners. Hell that's what makes a good first date into a great first date, IMHO.

And yet this sort of activity very very rarely results in the kind of horrible gut-wrenching illness that COULD occur from such activity. Why?

Because your body is able to destroy bacterial infestations quickly and using many, multiple layers of defense. You eat bacteria ALL THE TIME. You eat a lot of it. the large large overwhelming percentage of the time, nothing happens. EVERY once in a while, you get a strain that's JUST a little different than your body is used to, or one that's particularly nasty, or the luck of the draw runs out and your immune system fails to do it's job to perfection, or you're stressed out at work and your immune system isn't working at 100%, whatever, SOMETIMES one or two of the bacteria that you eat are able to make you sick, but the giant percentage of the time, they just die in your digestion tract, OR make a clean move from appetite to exit sign, never "infecting" you.

So your question about the one little spot under the rack is sort of missing the forrest for the trees...the forrest of billions of bacteria, climing all over everything you touch, see, put in your mouth, or even breathe!! That little spot under the rack doesn't matter.

Remember hundreds of years ago they had NO CONCEPT of cleanliness being a health implication. Wiping the food bits off the plate with your hand, maybe a toss of water was considered "Clean enough." and those people lived to the ripe old age of 45. ANd yeah a lot of them died because their cleanliness wasn't as high as we have today...but even still, most of them ended up killed by something else.
 
Thanks for that very logical dissertation, AtlantaSpock....
 
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