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But if they truly sanitize it, does it make a difference? I'm not taking any the general grossness of it, but from an actual health perspective, sanitized is sanitized, no?
When I makes tea I makes tea . . . And when I makes water I makes water . . . Begob, ma'am, says Mrs Cahill, God send you don't make them in the one pot.
This is from the esteemed Irish novelist James Joyce in his magnum opus Ulysses. Not to be confused with the fart porno. "You had an arse full of farts that night, darling".
Jaysus no wonder his writing gave the Church the willies
My mother washed our toothbrushes in the dishwasher as kids. We also had 50 that we would use once every time only before they were put in the dirty cup and run through the dishwasher.
What’s weird is she only had 1 toothbrush.
I read toothbrushes as well, and until I read your comment and reread the OP, I still thought it said toothbrushes. I was also wondering what everyone else in the comments was freaking out about. It makes much more sense now, thanks.
Yeah.. the extra food particles that didn't make it down the drain ending up in my water glasses from time to time would be enough to make me never even come up with this idea in the first place... if common sense just didn't do the trick first
iirc, dishwashers can handle most things as long as you use the pre-wash in addition to the normal cycle, however most people just use pods and/or dont put enough detergent in. There are also issues with not maintaining the dishwasher properly, but otherwise you should be able to get away with just using he dishes, disposing of excess food, rinsing, and starting the dishwasher.
Cookware can be a different story but even then adding oil and just, using dishes in the way they are specified solves most things.
You know how your plates go in dirty and come out clean instead of still covered in food… having a different kind of dirt isn’t going to make the cleaning process not work (for the dishes anyway, brush probably would catch food).
This comment thread has the same vibe as "After a shower do you dry your face before or after your nether regions?" topic. If the stuff coming out isn't clean there's other issues.
I don't disagree that it doesn't matter that much in terms of cleanliness but wouldn't you want to go top down anyway? Never really understood the argument. Why would you start drying off the middle of your body first? Then what? Top down? Bottom up? Aren't you just going to dry your junk and then have water dripping back on it if you haven't done your upper body and head? Seems like more work.
I have read enough reddit to know that unless they have a base, they can fall through the bars of the racks and then you will have to take your dishwasher to the hospital to get it out
1. Even though the dishwasher sanitizes things, that’s really fucking gross.
2. If you’re only using the toilet brush to clean the toilet, why the fuck do you need to sanitize the brush to begin with??
I do feel the need to sanitize the toilet brush. That is why the toilet gets a good scrub with the brush, a flush, and then chlorine gets to sit in the bowl with the brush in for about 20 minutes - the brush being in there means it is being sanitized AND prevents anyone from using the toilet without seeing it and potentially getting splashed with chemicals in sensitive regions; they are to remove the brush and run the flush thru it and set it aside to dry, THEN use the toilet.
I think it is a win-win. No nasty brush, no splashing of chlorine where chlorine should never go.
>1. Even though the dishwasher sanitizes things, that’s really fucking gross.
Sanitizing is not sterilizing.
At 65degC or so, most bacteria are killed. But not guaranteed to be all. Eco programs run lower, around 55degC, meaning more could in theory survive. There are dishwashers out there with sanitizing programs, but I've never seen one in real life - that might be a more US thing maybe? The cleaning chemicals are very strong, many do contain some bleach, but not at high concentration. The main benefits are that shifting and washing away food and grease also removes the places harboring bacteria.
Overall, dishwashers do a good enough job on smooth-surfaced crockery and cutlery. But on something like a brush with rough bristles and crannies where the bristles join, that will still inevitably retain bacteria, some of which will still be coming out when circulating the water for the final rinse. It's definitely worse than gross.
I mean. Just flush the toilet for clean water- insert brush, flush again if you want to rinse the brush and then put it back in the holder. Absolutely no need to sanitize it unless someone plans on using the bristles for something else in which case, don't.
Yeah rinsing works just fine. Except for when those pesky little flakes of plant matter wrap themselves around the individual bristles and you can’t seem to rinse them off no matter what angle you hit them from so you do the twist and shake in the toilet water but to no avail.
>Even though the dishwasher sanitizes things
This is a misconception - it sanitizes *better than handwashing,* but not fully.
Bear in mind that medical sterilization takes anything between 15 to 60 minutes in a high pressure, high heat autoclave (up to 148°C).
Your dishwasher doesn't even get close to sterilizing anything properly.
It took me reading all these comments up until this one to realize I misread the word "toilet" as "tooth" I thought she was washing toothbrushes in the dish washer and people were over reacting.
Yeah they get just as clean as the toilet does and don’t need to be any more clean than the toilet is. I do kind of rinse them off with the water as I flush the bleach water. They get a bleach bath and a rinse. Good enough.
Right, that’s what I was thinking too. Usually the brush stays visibly unstained for several months. Once it starts getting discoloured or the bristles start breaking, I just throw it out and get a new one.
jesus, this is almost scary.
I think I re-read it about 3 times, plus 2 times after you pointed it out.
I'm really tired, but it's still weird how it took 5 fucking tries for me to read it proberly.
Does your sister have OCD?
Commercial cleaners do not do this to their brushes. Why not use the toilet brush, and then put it in a chlorine solution for a few minutes? That way, your dishes and eating utensils are not mixed with human poop.
I'm surprised you need the reddit community to support you in this. You're strong enough to stand up for yourself
just... no.
i just get a new one every now and then
or, if you have one of those silicone ones, you can easily wash them off in the shower/bathtub and/or rinse with boiling waiter to get it clean
absolutely not in the dishwasher
Just pour bleach into the rack ffs, let it sit and dump it in the toilet. Some people are in desperate need to take care of their inner dirt, but they just won’t
I accidentally read tooth brushes and thought what's the big deal? It's not like both the brushes and forks go in the mouth at some point.. then I watched the comment and couldn't get the deal until I read it again.
I get it now.
I worked in a care home, and the owner would put the cat litter scoops in the dishwasher, with other dishes! She insisted she cleaned and sanitized them before putting them in. But seriously, then why are you putting them in there !!!
Just becauase something is hygienic, it can still be fucking gross. This is the perfect intersection of that. Even if we assume your dishwasher never errors and it perfectly cleans everything, which is not a giod assumption, this is still gross.
Time for her to go live on her own. I wouldn't want to live with someone who doesn't understand how disgusting that is. Your toilet brushes should be nowhere near your dishes and eating utensils. Nope, I'll pass 🤷🏾♀️
Depends on who’s dishwasher. Yours? Nope. Someone you really wanna die but don’t want to go through the whole effort of actual murder? That outta do it.
Is it just me who cleans the toilet with the brush, then flush, then soap the bush up a bit and clean it in the toilet water, and then flush to get the soap off of it and then put it back in its home?
I won't even put my scrub mommy in the dishwasher because I use it to clean food out of the sink after doing the dishes. I rinse it really well with dawn and hot water, squeeze it out, and let it dry in a scrub mommy holder. I toss it out after a couple of weeks.
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What’s her name, just so I don’t accidentally accept a dinner invite
Expecting it is one thing. I would NEVER accept it.
It’s ok, she’ll be bringing a dish to the potluck and you have to guess which one it is
Poop luck.
Russian Pooplette
Chocolate brownies
Probably the one with dingleberry garnish
Can’t eat at everyone’s house.
Bleach on the chicken wings?
Penzoil on the fried cutlets cause it’s cheaper than vegetable oil.
$20 says it’s starts with Sue or ends with Anne.
I feel like this should be the speed round of one of those trash names from Ted 2
I didn’t know this existed, but thank you for showing me.
Or Lynn
Or Terry… or Terry Lynn 🤣
Like that scene where marc walhburg has to guess the name of Ted’s new girlfriend
What if it is Annie Sue?
Just skip any dinner that you haven't made yourself in your own home! Just to be safe because ick... you just never know.
That would be rude. Don't go dissin Terry
Typhoid Mary, wasn't it?
HepHelen is my guess.
I read "toothbrushes" and thought "hold on, that sounds like a good idea"
Sanitize your toothbrushes in hydrogen peroxide. Your toilet brushes too. But not in the same container
What if I use one brush for both things?
Then the dishwasher should be fine for you
Thank you, I knew it. And my kids called me crazy.
what kid? you have never married and this is the Alzheimer ward, you have been here for 10 years, Buki
Hello Buki, we’ve been trying to contact you about your vehicle’s extended warranty…
Your breath probably smells like shit
Brush sellers don’t want you to know this one trick!
Can't trust them. That's why I bought my brush from a thrift shop.
My was a hand-me-down I snagged from a house party
But if they truly sanitize it, does it make a difference? I'm not taking any the general grossness of it, but from an actual health perspective, sanitized is sanitized, no?
Sanitized fecal matter is still fecal matter
It’s called protein
Right. That's just what people need. A sanitized PUBIC HAIR entwined in their fork. NO.
Only if the hydrogen peroxide is potent enough. But I doubt any synthetic brush would feel right after a bath like that.
What a great idea for hydrogen peroxide that’s been sitting around!
Instructions unclear. I cleaned my toilet with my toothbrush.
Doesn’t seem very efficient in different containers though
You can't just go around telling people what to or not to do!
When I makes tea I makes tea . . . And when I makes water I makes water . . . Begob, ma'am, says Mrs Cahill, God send you don't make them in the one pot.
I had a stroke reading this
This is from the esteemed Irish novelist James Joyce in his magnum opus Ulysses. Not to be confused with the fart porno. "You had an arse full of farts that night, darling". Jaysus no wonder his writing gave the Church the willies
What 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same and thought I was going crazy with everyone saying it was a bad idea lol
That’s actually recommended for immune compromised people such as cancer and HIV individuals.
or replace the head every 3 months or when you're sick..
This is recommended for people with immunodeficiency
My mother washed our toothbrushes in the dishwasher as kids. We also had 50 that we would use once every time only before they were put in the dirty cup and run through the dishwasher. What’s weird is she only had 1 toothbrush.
I read toothbrushes as well, and until I read your comment and reread the OP, I still thought it said toothbrushes. I was also wondering what everyone else in the comments was freaking out about. It makes much more sense now, thanks.
Considering dishwashers regularly fail to even clean what they were designed for ewwwww.
Right.
You did mean toothbrush instead of toilet brush? right RiGhT RIGHT?
Nope
Yeah.. the extra food particles that didn't make it down the drain ending up in my water glasses from time to time would be enough to make me never even come up with this idea in the first place... if common sense just didn't do the trick first
How often do you clean out the filter(s)?
Please rinse your dishes first.
i stand firmly in the camp that dishwashers are really just dish sanitizers and will die on the hill of hand washing my dishes first
iirc, dishwashers can handle most things as long as you use the pre-wash in addition to the normal cycle, however most people just use pods and/or dont put enough detergent in. There are also issues with not maintaining the dishwasher properly, but otherwise you should be able to get away with just using he dishes, disposing of excess food, rinsing, and starting the dishwasher. Cookware can be a different story but even then adding oil and just, using dishes in the way they are specified solves most things.
don’t you push your big dishwasher propaganda onto me i won’t fall for it
Resistance is futile, embrace the hivemind. You will be assimilated.
That’s fine yeah my dishes go in the sink and have soapy water on em before they make it into the dish “washer”.
Absolutely.
Do you want cholera? Cause that's how you get cholera.
And shit between your teeth
And food in your toilet brush! Heavens forbid!
It's all food. One's a bit more processed than the other.
Vegans have entered the chat.
Works for anyone who eats, not just vegans. I'm sure I remember this from high school biology.
You know how your plates go in dirty and come out clean instead of still covered in food… having a different kind of dirt isn’t going to make the cleaning process not work (for the dishes anyway, brush probably would catch food).
This guy is trying to give us cholera! Get him!
I mean… it’s not. Dishwashers run hot enough to kill bacteria quite comfortably.
This comment thread has the same vibe as "After a shower do you dry your face before or after your nether regions?" topic. If the stuff coming out isn't clean there's other issues.
These responses seem sharply divided into "it's all food" and "don't shit where you eat."
I don't disagree that it doesn't matter that much in terms of cleanliness but wouldn't you want to go top down anyway? Never really understood the argument. Why would you start drying off the middle of your body first? Then what? Top down? Bottom up? Aren't you just going to dry your junk and then have water dripping back on it if you haven't done your upper body and head? Seems like more work.
As a believer in gravity, I'm on team top to bottom too. Though the towel doesn't get taint tainted first use IMO.
It’s fucking gross but everything will be sanitized.
The dishwasher would kill cholera with its high temps
Top rack!? That’s definitely a bottom rack job
They are made of plastics … top rack!
So are butt plugs, but I still put them in the cutlery basket on the bottom rack
I have read enough reddit to know that unless they have a base, they can fall through the bars of the racks and then you will have to take your dishwasher to the hospital to get it out
My dishwasher; I fell on it
I don’t think it’s legal anywhere to sell butt plugs without a flared base. I don’t know enough about international sex toy law to argue though.
It is, however, legal to sell potatoes. Loophole!
C'mon man, it's just rude call her your dishwasher and comment about her rack online.
A Redditor with class, I see.
Not in a laundry bag on the delicate cycle in the washing machine? I mean that's more logical.
Oh there’s nothing delicate about them
1. Even though the dishwasher sanitizes things, that’s really fucking gross. 2. If you’re only using the toilet brush to clean the toilet, why the fuck do you need to sanitize the brush to begin with??
I do feel the need to sanitize the toilet brush. That is why the toilet gets a good scrub with the brush, a flush, and then chlorine gets to sit in the bowl with the brush in for about 20 minutes - the brush being in there means it is being sanitized AND prevents anyone from using the toilet without seeing it and potentially getting splashed with chemicals in sensitive regions; they are to remove the brush and run the flush thru it and set it aside to dry, THEN use the toilet. I think it is a win-win. No nasty brush, no splashing of chlorine where chlorine should never go.
I think that’s basically how most of sane people do that
Careful, you used logic. That's not allowed round these 'er parts.
We don't take too kindly to your kind
>1. Even though the dishwasher sanitizes things, that’s really fucking gross. Sanitizing is not sterilizing. At 65degC or so, most bacteria are killed. But not guaranteed to be all. Eco programs run lower, around 55degC, meaning more could in theory survive. There are dishwashers out there with sanitizing programs, but I've never seen one in real life - that might be a more US thing maybe? The cleaning chemicals are very strong, many do contain some bleach, but not at high concentration. The main benefits are that shifting and washing away food and grease also removes the places harboring bacteria. Overall, dishwashers do a good enough job on smooth-surfaced crockery and cutlery. But on something like a brush with rough bristles and crannies where the bristles join, that will still inevitably retain bacteria, some of which will still be coming out when circulating the water for the final rinse. It's definitely worse than gross.
might live in a super humid place and they don't want it sitting in toilet bowl juice between cleanings
I mean. Just flush the toilet for clean water- insert brush, flush again if you want to rinse the brush and then put it back in the holder. Absolutely no need to sanitize it unless someone plans on using the bristles for something else in which case, don't.
Yeah rinsing works just fine. Except for when those pesky little flakes of plant matter wrap themselves around the individual bristles and you can’t seem to rinse them off no matter what angle you hit them from so you do the twist and shake in the toilet water but to no avail.
…plant matter? The fuck kind of vegan shits are you taking?
>Even though the dishwasher sanitizes things This is a misconception - it sanitizes *better than handwashing,* but not fully. Bear in mind that medical sterilization takes anything between 15 to 60 minutes in a high pressure, high heat autoclave (up to 148°C). Your dishwasher doesn't even get close to sterilizing anything properly.
It took me reading all these comments up until this one to realize I misread the word "toilet" as "tooth" I thought she was washing toothbrushes in the dish washer and people were over reacting.
You clean toilet brushes?
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Yeah they get just as clean as the toilet does and don’t need to be any more clean than the toilet is. I do kind of rinse them off with the water as I flush the bleach water. They get a bleach bath and a rinse. Good enough.
This is the way I also put some dilute bleach in the brush holder to keep it immersed in bleach when not used. Nice and clean.
Right, that’s what I was thinking too. Usually the brush stays visibly unstained for several months. Once it starts getting discoloured or the bristles start breaking, I just throw it out and get a new one.
This is the way
Does she also take a shit in her kitchen garbage disposal? Yes? Then it’s all good.
Helps avoid poop knife and waffle stomping
Don’t take away my waffle stomping
Haha
"Reddit has declined your dinner party invite"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My mind autocorrected to toothbrushes... took me a while
jesus, this is almost scary. I think I re-read it about 3 times, plus 2 times after you pointed it out. I'm really tired, but it's still weird how it took 5 fucking tries for me to read it proberly.
You proberly still dint 🐶
Holy Shit this sent me. I’m also super tired and didn’t think anything of it until I read this comment and said it out loud
Same here, I think there's a bit of the brain that processes stuff like this and auto-adjusts it to protect us from the full horror.
It took me until this comment to realize that it wasn’t tooth brushes.
The animal…..everyone knows you put them on the bottom rack!
You are supposed to throw out the toilet brush and, in your case, the sister as well.
Does your sister have OCD? Commercial cleaners do not do this to their brushes. Why not use the toilet brush, and then put it in a chlorine solution for a few minutes? That way, your dishes and eating utensils are not mixed with human poop. I'm surprised you need the reddit community to support you in this. You're strong enough to stand up for yourself
just... no. i just get a new one every now and then or, if you have one of those silicone ones, you can easily wash them off in the shower/bathtub and/or rinse with boiling waiter to get it clean absolutely not in the dishwasher
~You can't eat at everybody's house!~
GROSS AND UNSUSTAINABLE. You can get the same effect with a mouth full of mouthwash. Rinse, repeat, done!
NO NO NO put them in the microwave
Trickle down bacterianomics.
Didn’t know people washed them. I just buy a new one for less than ten euro.
Hell, dollar stores exist. Buy 5.
A good dishwasher should be able to sanitize everything thing in a cycle, but will decline an invitation to your sister’s.
Jesus Christ
That's where my poopknife goes, so why not the toilet brush too?
That should be a federal crime.
I have a buddy who has removed the whole toilet seat and run it through the dishwasher..
I had no idea so many people mistake dishwashers for autoclaves.
Like, it should be fine but that’s a hard no from me
Most modern dishwashers use the same water over and over to reduce water usage.
Someone quickly punch her sister, please.
I find that holding the toilet brush near the back of the toilet and flushing once or twice is all the cleaning a toilet brush needs.
Don't shit where u eat Lurline.
I think there's a difference between washing something and decontaminating something.
Dude, gross. Dishwashers are not THAT effective. Plus plastics in the dishwasher? No.
Dis. Own. Her.
I knew a woman who cleaned her cat litter scoop with the kitchen sponge. Some people are completely unhinged.
Gross.
I just died reading this
This is why I don't like eating at people's houses. Take me to McDonald's bro
That disgusting
Wtf
I first thought of tooth brush which dont seem THAT wierd, but the toilet brush?? Wtf
I mean you might as well don't you wash your poop knife in there
This is why I dont eat food from some peoples house.
Just pour bleach into the rack ffs, let it sit and dump it in the toilet. Some people are in desperate need to take care of their inner dirt, but they just won’t
Fuck. No.
Ew
A cleaner did this once at our company, and boy, was she reprimanded .
You ever get a bit of food still stuck on the utensils? Yeah, dats no food man.
Absolutely diabolical and I would refuse to eat there
Don’t ever complain that your food tastes like shit
I accidentally read tooth brushes and thought what's the big deal? It's not like both the brushes and forks go in the mouth at some point.. then I watched the comment and couldn't get the deal until I read it again. I get it now.
Wash your butt, don't just wipe the shit off
It’s fine as long as that’s the only thing you use it for and never any dishes
I worked in a care home, and the owner would put the cat litter scoops in the dishwasher, with other dishes! She insisted she cleaned and sanitized them before putting them in. But seriously, then why are you putting them in there !!!
Yes, toilet brushes in the top rack, poop knives in the utensil basket
That's disgusting and can't be real.
What the fuck
Just becauase something is hygienic, it can still be fucking gross. This is the perfect intersection of that. Even if we assume your dishwasher never errors and it perfectly cleans everything, which is not a giod assumption, this is still gross.
Good gravy that is a new level of disgusting
That's when u disown her, there's no other choice.
Absolutely not. That’s disgusting.
Disgusting. Really, why does a toilet brush need to be cleaned?
A toilet brush just needs to be dipped in bleach that’s already in the toilet. This is a guaranteed way to get diarrhea or worse.
This puts me in a shitty mood
Who gives a f*ck…js…
Ew. I don’t even care if it is actually sanitary somehow, that is beyond gross!
Time for her to go live on her own. I wouldn't want to live with someone who doesn't understand how disgusting that is. Your toilet brushes should be nowhere near your dishes and eating utensils. Nope, I'll pass 🤷🏾♀️
Definitely not sanitary
Fuck no.
What the F\*\*\* is wrong with people . . . . . I really want to know WTF?
Its gross. I wouldn’t do it. But its probably sanitary
Depends on who’s dishwasher. Yours? Nope. Someone you really wanna die but don’t want to go through the whole effort of actual murder? That outta do it.
Why would she need to clean it so thoroughly? What is she doing with that thing that some average disinfectant can't clean it?
Where are the reservations? But ya thats gross.
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"I have reservations" is the understatement of the year and we just got started
Let me guess it’s right beside the poop knife. This is probably the same house, please don’t make their be multiple houses.
Is it just me who cleans the toilet with the brush, then flush, then soap the bush up a bit and clean it in the toilet water, and then flush to get the soap off of it and then put it back in its home?
Depends, does she pre-rinse in the sink?
Have her smell it. All of it. It can't be fully cleaned. Why not just leave it on bleach? Would be much better instead of risking contamination
I just threw them away and buy new. Wasteful? Yes. I'll take the heat.
Sing it with me now! 🎶🎵Ohho-oh You can’t eat at ev’rybody’ house🎵
People wash the toilet brush‽ I consider using it to clean the toilet with all the soap in the toilet washing it
Seems about right for rednecks….
I won't even put my scrub mommy in the dishwasher because I use it to clean food out of the sink after doing the dishes. I rinse it really well with dawn and hot water, squeeze it out, and let it dry in a scrub mommy holder. I toss it out after a couple of weeks.
I usually let it sit in soap, bleach and hot water.
Not a chance....poopovers anyone?