Twitter users can’t stop raving about a viral dishwasher safety tweet.
On Sunday, Twitter user @phiamenina shared her husband’s thoughts on the dishwasher. tweets: “‘Anything is dishwasher safe if you don’t take care of it’ – my husband.”
Other Twitter users were quick to join in the conversation, finding her husband’s dishwashing routine hilarious.
“I never check if things are dishwasher safe. Everything goes in. If it breaks, then it just wasn’t strong enough to survive in this world,” one user joked.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the post had racked up over 738,000 likes and a slew of comments.
Although a dishwasher can clean a lot of things, there are still a lot of things you shouldn’t load in it—namely, blades, anything made of wood, cast iron, aluminum, and just about any metal that doesn’t have a non-stick coating.
Scores of people continued to share cataclysmic stories about putting the wrong items through the device’s steamy vortex.
“Don’t be like me, and put a cast iron pan in the dishwasher!” a person posted on Twitter alongside a picture of a very rusty pan.
Disregarding the original tweet, one person re-shared a tweet about the time she found out the hard way that plastic water bottles don’t belong in a useful kitchen appliance.
“So I didn’t realize I couldn’t put those 64oz water bottles in the dishwasher,” she tweeted, sharing photo evidence of the destroyed bottle.
Some users have even found that they have gone as far as putting food in the dishwasher.
“My school uses potatoes through the dishwasher for baked potato bar,” wrote one user. “No soap, but a really good scrub.”
“I know people who cook salmon on the top rack of their dishwasher (wrapped in aluminum foil). No joke,” another he answered.
Taking the discussion to the next level, one user admitted to intentionally placing a rubber chicken in the kitchen appliance.
“True. We wash our rubber chicken in the dishwasher. ‘Gaston le Gaulois’ used to get very dirty at rugby matches and in pubs. It took several years, maybe 30 washes, to destroy the integrity of the tire,” the person tweeted.
Another user wondered if dishwashers are necessary, especially for smaller households.
“Who needs a dishwasher with a handsome husband like that?” Seriously, why have a dishwasher. Unless you are a family of 6, eat 3 meals a day or run a restaurant,” person posted on Twitter.
Whirlpool – one of the world’s leading kitchen appliance companies – recommends that you never put cast iron, knives, thin plastic, antique china, wood, insulated glasses and silver in the dishwasher.
Click here to learn more about dishwasher safety.
