To think that some things can’t go in the dishwasher?

[Notcontent]

I had a new cleaner come today. It was all mainly good and I was grateful for the help BUT she loaded the dishwasher and then I discovered all sorts of things that I never put in the dishwasher as I think they get slightly ruined - but maybe that’s just me? In particular:

• wooden spoons and other wooden implements
• my good quality chopping knives
• my glass magimix blender

Or do other people shove everything in??

@HesterLee

Why do you not put good knives in a dish washer? What happens to them that doesn't happen to ordinary knives?

The blades can go blunt or even develop tiny chips, and the handles can get damaged. The detergent is really corrosive, and being subjected to powerful jets of very hot water - it damages them. Damages cheap knives too but you might not care so much and also they might have plastic handles that can withstand the dishwasher better.

I put in everything except my silver anodised baking tins because they discolour and my chopping boards: one is bamboo strips and cost ££ and it would disintegrate and the other is olive wood. I also wouldn’t put my grandma’s china in as it was produced before dishwashers were invented. I took a plastic ketchup bottle out the other day and it had shrunk!

I thought I put everything in the dishwasher until I read the threads about posters putting their toilet seats in there

YABU to assume the cleaner could guess your rules, how are they supposed to know you keep wooden spoons and knives out of it?

Make a list.

YANBU, but everyone has their own set of rules for what can and can't go in. I'd tell her which things you don't want in the dishwasher. A list would be best.

I put everything in except delicate glasses and those insulated steel water bottles. Doesn't seem to harm our good knives (nor the ordinary ones). Most chopping boards do break eventually, but the time and effort saved by not having to hand wash them make up for it in my opinion.

No wood, it warps - I chucked away a load of spoons after doing this and realising they cracked, nothing sharp as it blunts it.
Say something to her about the thing you aren’t comfortable with going in there. Our cleaner often puts our glass vases in there and it’s always been fine but I never do in case they break with the heat. Obviously I haven’t said anything to her

YABU - I put knives in the dishwasher, if you have certain items you don’t want put in there you need to tell her

I put almost everything in except my best pans, best wine glasses and olive wood salad servers.

I’ve considered putting a man in there 😁!

Everything unless it says not dishwasher suitable on it. Sadly, DH doesn’t always remember what shouldn’t go in. My cast iron casserole dish really shouldn’t go in.

I put everything in ours. Wooden spoons particularly.

I put everything in except for sentimental glasses (engraved things that were gifts) but only because I don't want them to break so wash them by hand and put them straight away, the less time out the cupboard the better.

Perhaps do the dishes/dishwasher before the cleaner comes?
Why??

While I also don’t put kitchen knives, wooden items and certain others in the dishwasher I am surprised that a cleaner does peoples dishes. Is this not tidying up, akin to picking your clothes up off the floor or putting toys away?

Do many cleaners do this, my cleaner cleans, I don’t want her to spend that time tidying up after me?

I always put wooden spoons in, they come out fine. Also put in plastic utensils. I generally wash pans by hand and no blender bits go in. Just tell her if you don’t want certain items going in

@Montalbanosono

Perhaps do the dishes/dishwasher before the cleaner comes? Why??

I was just thinking this. What’s the point of having a cleaner and then cleaning yourself?!

I’m surprised people don’t put good knives in the dishwasher. Unless they have a wooden handle I can’t see they’d get damaged if you put them in the correct bit?

I put the blender jug in all of the time. I think the good knives are a orefe rather than a rule, I don't put mine in either but not a rule.

Where as the wooden things I'd say it is a rule. However you just need to speak to her as people sometimes don't know things.

I don't put everything in but I would have but all of those in.

Loads of stuff I wouldn't put in the dishwasher:
Wooden anything - warps, splits, allows germs into the splits.
Sharp knives - blunts them
Pots and pans - bad for the coating, fills up the dishwasher too quickly
Good glassware - could crack them and/or leave them cloudy
Cast iron - could damage
Baking trays - take up too much space and get cleaner by hand if stuff stuck to them.

I wouldn't ever leave washing up to be done by the cleaner - I try to leave the house tidy so they can actually clean.

Just tell her - I shove it all in, but am always being told it blunts knifes etc.

Presumably you load the dishwasher as you go, so you can just tell her the stuff next to the sink is for hand washing

‘I wouldn't ever leave washing up to be done by the cleaner - I try to leave the house tidy so they can actually clean.’

🙄 - Ah then you are a superior employer then...

Washing up is ‘actually cleaning’. There is nothing wrong with asking a cleaner to do it, if that’s what you want done.

@EmmaStone

Loads of stuff I wouldn't put in the dishwasher: Wooden anything - warps, splits, allows germs into the splits. Sharp knives - blunts them Pots and pans - bad for the coating, fills up the dishwasher too quickly Good glassware - could crack them and/or leave them cloudy Cast iron - could damage Baking trays - take up too much space and get cleaner by hand if stuff stuck to them.

I wouldn't ever leave washing up to be done by the cleaner - I try to leave the house tidy so they can actually clean.

🙄 washing up is cleaning. There is nothing wrong with it’s asking your cleaner to do it, if that’s what you want.

I’m a nanny for two families and both have cleaners, the cleaner never uses the dishwasher to start with but one family throws EVERYTHING in the dishwasher literally everything. So I follow their suit as that’s what they want. Most things have been fine to be fair. I’ll hand wash things up I’m not sure of sometimes.

I started with the second family afterwards and I put some plastic things in the dishwasher as I did the other house and they kindly said would I mind not putting certain things in so I never have again. Years later I notice they are casually putting more things in they didn’t used to but I’m still listening to their original instruction to be on the safe side

The only things that don't go in ours are two gilt-edged mugs (I have the same one at work which does go in the dishwasher there and is now gilt-free) and a Le Creuset style casserole. Our "good" knives aren't good enough to worry about.

Oh and plastic stuff. Someone on here did explain why it never dries so if it does go in it has to be rinsed afterwards so it will dry properly.

I'm surprised people would leave washing up for the cleaner too, why not load the dishwasher after eating and wipe your fancy knives straight after using them then you won't have a messy kitchen.