Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forum"Not dishwasher safe"
Today I put the mandolin Ive been hand washing for 20 years into the dishwasher. It was fine. If it hadnt been fine, I would have bought another that was dishwasher safe. I was just so tired of carefully washing around all those blades. Getting old and lazy, I am.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Over time, it'll dull out.
Handwashing blades helps keep them sharp, and sharp is safer (and easier) than dull.
hlthe2b
(101,699 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)is letting them bump into things while being washed. Steak knives in the flatwear holder is a NO NO. But I see no issue with a mandoline or blender blade put in it's own slot and not in contact with other hard surfaces to bump into.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)All helps to dull blades.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Your time will be better spent doing something you like to do rather than a chore you dislike when you've got a perfectly good machine to do the disliked chore for you.
Sneederbunk
(14,207 posts)demigoddess
(6,640 posts)little shelf that would normally hold a line of glasses or cups.
randr
(12,408 posts)Just hard to get all the water out
flotsam
(3,268 posts)and has one shortened finger, I vote for the dishwasher or anything else that would lessen my exposure to that disfigurement device...
spinbaby
(15,073 posts)I think Alton Brown recommended them. I feel safer using the thing than hand washing it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)One day long ago I just decided to be permanently lazy, although I remember it as the day I gave away the wine glasses that had to be hand washed, along with everything else I turned out of my drawers and cabinets. Only exceptions 3 cast iron skillets and a wok, plus special, seldom-used serving dishes that are stored in the basement.
Since then, the rule is everything else in my kitchen goes in the dishwasher, including knives, mandolin and processor blades laid where nothing strikes them.