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Not dishwasher safe?

glitchc 1y ago
These commercial tools are often odd-shaped (this one is a foot and a half tall) and not dishwasher friendly. Even if you found a way to somehow fit it into the dishwasher, the jets may not reach the blades.
b112 1y ago
I have a knife I use only to cut veggies, I never wash it with soap, just rinse it off and put it back in the block. Veggies aren't meat. This is the same for my frying pans. Just rinse them. When was the last time you saw someone use soap to clean a bbq?
- malfist 1y ago
  This is why you're way more likely to get food poisoning at home. Or at least at this guys home
  - account42 1y ago
    This is absurd. Do you also worry about particulates in the ear you're breathing all the time?
  - b112 1y ago
    You'll never get food poisoning from a frying pan, because you don't use soap. Or have you heard of people getting food poisoning, from not washing their bbq with soap? Note I didn't say pots. Boiling isn't anywhere near as hot as frying. The knife? The horrors! I do rinse it and remove all biological matter. Yes, there's still some there. I assure you the wooden block people use, is teeming with bacteria, so do you wash the knife before using it? I wonder. I often pick fruit from trees, sometimes spit on it and then brush it off on my shirt. Do you do the same? When you get home from the grocery store, do you wash all your veggies with soap? Or do you just use water? What about your fruit? All washed with soap? If not, I assure you the fruit and vegetables are far worse than the knife, rinsed off. And yes, I do wash my hands before preparing food -- and just before eating it. Veggies just aren't meat. If they were, you'd never see someone eating an apple right from the store, a tree, or not washing them with soap first. I mean honestly, the grocery store apple has often traveled thousands of miles in a crate on a ship, been handled by people putting the food out, been handled by other customers, you, been in a bag that isn't sterilized. I wonder again, how many use soap on that apple? Of course when I eat an apple all that's left is the stem, so people are picky anyhow.
    - NicuCalcea 1y ago
      Wood chopping boards are actually not teeming with bacteria. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X22020920?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X2...
      - b112 1y ago
        Wood blocks, you put knives in like this: https://boutiquedelabalayeuse.com/products/bloc-a-couteaux-pivotant-en-bois-naturel-13-fentes-victodrinox?variant=42253727924374 https://boutiquedelabalayeuse.com/products/bloc-a-couteaux-p... They're exceptionally popular in many places. It's not like people wash the holes, some are decades old. And at no point did I say they were 'teeming' with bacteria, I used it as an example of a thing not cleaned. It's not like stainless is teeming with bacteria either, espcially when you rinse a knife off. It's far less porous and craggily than those wooden blocks after a decade of use. The logic is simple; compare these things to other actions. Otherwise it's all show and theatre to make one feel good, like the TSA.
        NicuCalcea 1y ago
        It's not about cleaning, wood has antibacterial properties, it sucks the moisture out of bacteria and kills them. That's true for both wood chopping boards and blocks. There is plenty of literature about it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000741 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266676572... > And at no point did I say they were 'teeming' with bacteria Is this not a direct quote from your previous comment: "I assure you the wooden block people use, is teeming with bacteria"?
        b112 1y ago
        Apparently so, re: teeming. But the problem isn't just wood, it's also long term dirt accumulation. And this study is absolutely not validation of your point, stating "Despite the many investigations on the topic, the antibacterial activity of wood is far from fully understood", while also saying different species, and hard vs softwood all have different tested effectiveness. This is also about dry wood, yet I've seen countless people put their knifes away wet/damp. Some of these blocks rarely have time to dry. I've also seen mould growing on soap, damp debris, and these are things which end up in the block's slots... never washed or cleaned. I'm not saying don't use them, I'm saying it's silly to wash frying pans with soap, or vegetables only use knives with soap. Not needed.

These commercial tools are often odd-shaped (this one is a foot and a half tall) and not dishwasher friendly. Even if you found a way to somehow fit it into the dishwasher, the jets may not reach the blades.

b112 1y ago

I have a knife I use only to cut veggies, I never wash it with soap, just rinse it off and put it back in the block. Veggies aren't meat. This is the same for my frying pans. Just rinse them. When was the last time you saw someone use soap to clean a bbq?

malfist 1y ago
This is why you're way more likely to get food poisoning at home. Or at least at this guys home
- account42 1y ago
  This is absurd. Do you also worry about particulates in the ear you're breathing all the time?
- b112 1y ago
  You'll never get food poisoning from a frying pan, because you don't use soap. Or have you heard of people getting food poisoning, from not washing their bbq with soap? Note I didn't say pots. Boiling isn't anywhere near as hot as frying. The knife? The horrors! I do rinse it and remove all biological matter. Yes, there's still some there. I assure you the wooden block people use, is teeming with bacteria, so do you wash the knife before using it? I wonder. I often pick fruit from trees, sometimes spit on it and then brush it off on my shirt. Do you do the same? When you get home from the grocery store, do you wash all your veggies with soap? Or do you just use water? What about your fruit? All washed with soap? If not, I assure you the fruit and vegetables are far worse than the knife, rinsed off. And yes, I do wash my hands before preparing food -- and just before eating it. Veggies just aren't meat. If they were, you'd never see someone eating an apple right from the store, a tree, or not washing them with soap first. I mean honestly, the grocery store apple has often traveled thousands of miles in a crate on a ship, been handled by people putting the food out, been handled by other customers, you, been in a bag that isn't sterilized. I wonder again, how many use soap on that apple? Of course when I eat an apple all that's left is the stem, so people are picky anyhow.
  - NicuCalcea 1y ago
    Wood chopping boards are actually not teeming with bacteria. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X22020920?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X2...
    - b112 1y ago
      Wood blocks, you put knives in like this: https://boutiquedelabalayeuse.com/products/bloc-a-couteaux-pivotant-en-bois-naturel-13-fentes-victodrinox?variant=42253727924374 https://boutiquedelabalayeuse.com/products/bloc-a-couteaux-p... They're exceptionally popular in many places. It's not like people wash the holes, some are decades old. And at no point did I say they were 'teeming' with bacteria, I used it as an example of a thing not cleaned. It's not like stainless is teeming with bacteria either, espcially when you rinse a knife off. It's far less porous and craggily than those wooden blocks after a decade of use. The logic is simple; compare these things to other actions. Otherwise it's all show and theatre to make one feel good, like the TSA.
      - NicuCalcea 1y ago
        It's not about cleaning, wood has antibacterial properties, it sucks the moisture out of bacteria and kills them. That's true for both wood chopping boards and blocks. There is plenty of literature about it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000741 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266676572... > And at no point did I say they were 'teeming' with bacteria Is this not a direct quote from your previous comment: "I assure you the wooden block people use, is teeming with bacteria"?
        b112 1y ago
        Apparently so, re: teeming. But the problem isn't just wood, it's also long term dirt accumulation. And this study is absolutely not validation of your point, stating "Despite the many investigations on the topic, the antibacterial activity of wood is far from fully understood", while also saying different species, and hard vs softwood all have different tested effectiveness. This is also about dry wood, yet I've seen countless people put their knifes away wet/damp. Some of these blocks rarely have time to dry. I've also seen mould growing on soap, damp debris, and these are things which end up in the block's slots... never washed or cleaned. I'm not saying don't use them, I'm saying it's silly to wash frying pans with soap, or vegetables only use knives with soap. Not needed.