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Can you clean a Dish Towels in a Dishwasher?

My husband consistantly places dirty dish towels in the dishwasher to clean them.

While he is loading the dishwasher, he will place soiled dish towels on the top rack (sometimes bottom rack) to get clean. I am convinced the washing machine would be a more appropriate (you know, with a cleaning detergent for fabric like "Tide" or "Cheer"), but he maintains that this does clean the towels.

Please tell me that he is not correct. Any evidence to support you stance would be appreciated.

Answer:

It probably does clean the towels the way he does it, however there are some problems with this method.

1. It's not energy efficient and quite silly.

2. Putting towels in the dishwasher could impede water flow to the other dishes.

3. Towels don't get scrubbed in the dishwasher like they would a clothes washer, they get half @ss soaked.

4 The towel(s) could trap food particles that are washed off of dishes.

5. You can't fit anywhere near as many towels in a dishwasher as you can a clothes washer.

6. Lint fibers that come off the towels might eventually clog the pump of the dishwasher. A dishwasher has no lint filter, they have food filters and food disposers

7. Even if you washed a full load of towels in a dishwasher the average cycle times of newer dishwashers is about 90 minutes or more. Why spend that much time washing and rinsing dish towels? Conventional top loading automatic clothes washers don't take anywhere near that long.

8. Like another blogger on here said, the washing method of a dishwasher takes far longer to clean towels than it does to clean dishes, because towels are pourous and have weaves that soils can get trapped in

9. Automatic Dishwasher detergent is not formulated to clean garments. Automatic Dishwasher detergent also has tons of bleach in it. (Sodium Hypochlorite)

10. Let's not forget the heating element that comes on during the dry cycle (some dishwashers use this to heat the water to optimum level) Is there a safety risk, if cloth touches this heating element by accident?

What is your husband smoking? He's weird. A clothes washer actually scrubs your clothes and towels , a dishwasher cannot scrub garments. The most it will do is just half @ss soak them.

You could probably wash about 6 to 8 towels or so in the dishwasher compared to 40 in a clothes washer. This makes the gleaming inefficiency of the dishwasher for washing towels very clear. Like I said if he mixing items (dishes and towels) that's dumb...

What does he do stretch the towels over the tines and pin them to the upper rack so that they are stretched horizontally? Your husband's weird. What can I say?

Tell him that's why they make clothes washers, to wash towels and garments, and that he's wasting energy and more poignantly, could damage the dishwasher.

A quick washing of the towel in baking soda and hand dishwashing detergent in the sink is probably better than what he's doing.

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