RE: Dishwasher warning

I've seen several articles that recommend putting your toothbrush in for a
good cleaning periodically to get rid of germs that accumulate.


> [Original Message]
> From: Daryl <dp2413@comcast.net>
> To: gardenchat <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 9/7/2008 8:22:00 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Dishwasher warning
>
> Just a heads up.
>
> On Tuesday morning, after running the dishwasher, I noticed that my
favorite
> knife had fallen to the bottom. I went to retrieve it and the back of my
> finger briefly touched the heating rod. To my great surprise, it was
> incredibly hot and gave me a bad 3rd degree burn - worse than that I've
had
> when touching something in the oven.
>
> It never occurred to me that the rod would be hot, since we don't use the
hot
> dry cycle and the dishwasher had shut itself off some time before.  I
suppose
> it's one of the new "get the water hot enough to kill germs" things. I've
used
> a dishwasher for more than 4 decades and never had a dishwasher bite me.
> Doggone thing still hurts and keeps me up at night.
>
> d
>
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