Run the dishwasher in sanitize with like nothing else in it? Might at least make it acceptable in your mind
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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I think you’re right. I’ll do that thank you. Maybe extra detergent.
You can get dishwasher cleaner, to be used monthly on a hot cycle while empty.
Also, your wife should not do disgusting things. My dad put sandals in once and we shamed him for years.
Also take the filter out and wash it in the sink (unless yours is the filter-less kind)
Lol at all the people who want to throw out the whole appliance. Wait until they find out how much former piss is in all sources of water, what allowances there are for gross things in prepared food, and what's on every surface in human environments. Earth is one big mixing pot.
Give it a steralise cycle and it'll be cleaner than the counters around it, by any objective measure.
I am curious about the almost nothing else bit. What got put in the poo-poo cycle?
Edit: Psychology is another thing, and that's valid I guess, but man I can't imagine having disposable dishwasher kind of money.
what's on every surface in human environments. Earth is one big mixing pot.
Of poop. It's gonna be poop.
Human, other vertebrates and insect. Secretions and shed tissues from humans, other vertebrates and insects. Fungal spores and natural surface bacteria, mostly harmless unless you're immune-compromised, both dead and alive. Other microorganisms, dead and alive. Mineral dust and microplastics, if you find either gross. Pathogens carried with the human secretions, hopefully all dead.
Unless you work in semiconductor manufacturing, there's no such thing as perfectly clean. Even if you do it's mostly theoretical. For most practical purposes the standard used is something like:
The contaminants are too small and too few to be visible. All pathogenic contaminants are dead.
And I think that's entirely reasonable. We don't really have a choice, right?
Some sex toys are dishwasher safe, it's not a big deal.
(I'm talking about the shitpusher, not about the croc. No idea why you included a dirty toilet in the pic tho.)
I don't think that's equivalent.
Many people happily lick the areas where sex toys are used.
Far less people would do so where toilet plungers tend to be applied.
areas where sex toys are used
where toilet plungers tend to be applied
I'm implying those are the same areas.
I've never ever used a plunger on a toilet.
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Similar to the blood-brain barrier, we have a kitchen-bathroom barrier policy. Tools for each space should never cross, even cleaning tools. So even brushes for the sinks are separate.
Your dishwasher uses soap and hot water to clean everything in it and the washer itself.
This is no big deal.
Trust me chances are nastier stuff than your plunger has been in the washer.
Well sometimes stuff gets trapped in behind the door seal, and mold will grow etc. You could harbour bacteria in the door seal. It needs a sanitize cycle and a good wipe around the seals .. Probably needs that anyway, mist people don't bother until the dishwasher starts smelling must after it has finishes a wash and dry
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It's important that you know this: That's a shit puller, not a shit pusher.
I mean, it always seems like it is pulling water into the cup and pushing it down the pipe at great speed to unclog it, but maybe I’ve been using a plunger wrong. I don’t really get enough of a seal around the edge to create a pulling force.
You don't have to get a seal. You just push it in. Then quickly pull it out, push it in, pull it out, push it in, ... until the water drains freely again. The pushing-pulling iteration creates enough negative pressure to get the job done quickly without a seal. But don't wear your best clothes.
I always did it wrong, until a plumber showed me how to do it.
(Side note, this is for a european/german toilet. Might be different in the US, US toilets are just insane.)
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See, this is one of those inconvenient situations where us Atheists really lack appropriate and proportional ways to express our feelings about things.
"oh your fucking god" works wonders
...That's genius. Thanks!
yeah, after a while i just started worshiping an obviously made up joke god just so's i could get good blasphemy back in my life
For all that it is in truth far more terrifying, I freely admit that expressions like "Oh, in the name of False Vacuum Decay" just doesn't land the same. It's s shame, really. Modern scientific curses like "may all your Li-Ion batteries grow centimeter long dendrites in seconds" are much more fearsome than they immediately appear.
I mean, "may your tap water turn to dioxygen difluoride while you're taking a shower" would make even Satan go, "okay, stop, just... Jesus, stop."
Yeah if I start cursing people with foof showers I'll get put on worse lists
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Um. What would you do? Sorry if it seemed like I was bragging.
Where’s my Lemmy Gold when I need it
Fake your death
Grow a beard
Change your name
Move to Brazil
Etc
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Lol came to say the same thing
A few years ago I discovered that my girlfriend takes monster shits. She only poops once every 3 or 4 days. When I say "horse turd", I'm not kidding, just looking at one of these makes my ass hurt. Anyway, apparently this sort of thing isn't unheard of. I stumbled on a Reddit post about something called a "poop knife". I repurposed my shittiest chef's knife (pun intended) for this task, which has cut down on the number of times I have to plunge the toilet. We wash it off every time with tile cleaner, so it never goes in the dish washer. I've blunted the edge since it doesn't need to be sharp, and my girlfriend is a complete klutz. I can easily imagine her dropping it and cutting off a toe. Imagine having to explain to an ER doc cutting your toe off with a poop knife.
Wow, after all those years, poop knife is still a thing, huh?
almost nothing else...? Cmon OP, you've gotta elaborate there. What ended up taking a swim with the turd stick?
- why call it a shit pusher? It doesn’t push shit
- why post online instead of just talking to her? Unless you’re doing both
- why did she not just rinse it off? What’s the point in deep cleaning a plunger when it’s going back into a toilet eventually anyways?
I’m a little fucking skeevee to buy it
- maybe it’s just me, but I can’t figure out what this means. You’re too skeeved out to buy the fact that it was ok to do?
Skeeved by the idea that the plunger that had poop in/on it was in his dish washer, where his dishes go, where his food goes before its in his mouth.
Skeeved by it, got it, thanks! My pedantry for spelling was overriding my reading comprehension skills 😆
It's actually not a big deal.
Run it with vinegar. Full a bowl with vinegar and place it on the top rack and run it with the hottest steam setting. 100% sterile inside afterward.
If she ran it with a very hot heated dry setting with the plunger, it's possible it's all disinfected anyway. Lots of people used the dish washer to sterilize jars for canning. The steam from the drying cycle is hot enough and last long enough to pasteurize everything.
dish washer to sterilize jars for canning
Household Dishwashers do not sterilise, they only sanitise at best (with a 65° (150°F)). For sterilisation of all microorganisms including spores they would need to heat up to 120°C (250°F) for several minutes.
That being said you most likely breath in your own poop particles all the time, so sanitation may be enough.
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For me personally it's the "almost nothing else" that went into the dishwasher with the plunger that truly pushed the narrative into holy shit territory.
Thank you for my morning laugh (literally out loud at that)
Make her watch something absolutely disgusting that no one should ever watch without knowing what they are getting themselves into >!2 girls 1 cup!< and ask her if she would ever use that glass again to eat out of.
And that now that's all you can't think about when you use anything that comes out if the dishwasher
Great title.
dishwashers are fireproof, right? you know what, only one way to find out
I would have used the opportunity to clean my toothbrush
Divorce her
I tried to imagine loving someone enough to forgive this and failed.
Forever unclean!
Well... my former roommate put the hair sieve from the shower into the full dishwasher. Like wtf. Sterilised anything by liquid fire afterwards.
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I personally would throw the dishwasher away, and before that, permanently damage it to make sure no poor soul picks it up from the trash thinking they scored a free dishwasher without knowing it was once used to wash literal shit.
I would never be able to ever eat anything from any dish every washed on that machine, but again, that's me and my personal emotional reaction to it. I understand that if it reaches 90C it technically kills all bacteria or something. But I would still refuse.
For that same reason I never buy used kitchen utensils, because I have no way to know what has be used for before.
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