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jmcquown

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May 24, 2018, 1:15:09 PM5/24/18
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Got some major thunderstorms rolling through here so grilling outside is
not an option. I do have a grill pan so I'll cook this hot Italian
sausage on the stovetop.

I've got six sausages, might add a couple of them to some seasoned
tomato sauce to serve over pasta.

I do hope the power doesn't go out.

Jill

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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May 24, 2018, 1:19:37 PM5/24/18
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Sounds good to me!

I hope you've got one of those spatter screens to go on top of your
pan. That's the only thing I hate about frying some things; that
grease can pop and land everywhere.

jmcquown

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May 24, 2018, 2:04:52 PM5/24/18
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I do have a couple of spatter screens but they're not really necessary.
I slash the Italian sausages crosswise so the fat leaches out into the
grill pan. Also so they don't curl up when cooking. I don't cook them
on high heat, cook them low and slow. There's not much spatter.

Jill

Dave Smith

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May 24, 2018, 3:57:10 PM5/24/18
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On 2018-05-24 2:04 PM, jmcquown wrote:

>
> I do have a couple of spatter screens but they're not really necessary.
> I slash the Italian sausages crosswise so the fat leaches out into the
> grill pan.  Also so they don't curl up when cooking.  I don't cook them
> on high heat, cook them low and slow.  There's not much spatter.

I don't slash them. I just poke a bunch of holes in them to let the fat out.

jmcquown

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May 24, 2018, 4:11:37 PM5/24/18
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Whatever works. I don't get a lot of grease or spatter from these
sausages. Joan was talking about needing a spatter screen. I do own a
couple but I don't use them very often.

Jill

Hank Rogers

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May 24, 2018, 6:21:31 PM5/24/18
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Those screens are a neat idea, but they are almost as much trouble to
clean as simply cleaning up the spatters. Sometimes I use them for
frying hamburgers, but never had much problems cooking Italian sausages
without a screen.



lucreti...@fl.it

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May 24, 2018, 7:01:38 PM5/24/18
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On Thu, 24 May 2018 17:21:24 -0500, Hank Rogers <nos...@invalid.net>
wrote:
Shove it in the dishwasher, easy.

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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May 24, 2018, 7:21:21 PM5/24/18
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On Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 6:01:38 PM UTC-5, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2018 17:21:24 -0500, Hank Rogers <nos...@invalid.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Those screens are a neat idea, but they are almost as much trouble to
> >clean as simply cleaning up the spatters.
> >
> >
> Shove it in the dishwasher, easy.
>
>
The only dishwasher I have are hanging off the ends of my arms.

tert in seattle

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May 24, 2018, 7:40:05 PM5/24/18
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adavid...@sympatico.ca writes:
>On 2018-05-24 2:04 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>>
>> I do have a couple of spatter screens but they're not really necessary.
>> I slash the Italian sausages crosswise so the fat leaches out into the
>> grill pan.A Also so they don't curl up when cooking.A I don't cook them
>> on high heat, cook them low and slow.A There's not much spatter.
>
>I don't slash them. I just poke a bunch of holes in them to let the fat out.

jeeze! how would you like it if a sausage did that to you ??



Hank Rogers

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May 24, 2018, 8:32:53 PM5/24/18
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Yeah, good idea. But with just two of us, I usually just wash everything
by hand.

Wayne Boatwright

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May 24, 2018, 8:34:38 PM5/24/18
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On Thu 24 May 2018 12:57:05p, Dave Smith told us...
You must be thinking of Oprah.

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Cindy Hamilton

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May 25, 2018, 6:20:35 AM5/25/18
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Dishwasher. It cleans them up a treat.

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton

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May 25, 2018, 6:21:29 AM5/25/18
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With just the two of us, I run the dishwasher every day. Twice, sometimes,
on the weekend.

Cindy Hamilton

Nancy Young

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May 25, 2018, 9:14:11 AM5/25/18
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On 5/24/2018 8:32 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
> lucreti...@fl.it wrote:

>> Shove it in the dishwasher, easy.
>>
>
> Yeah, good idea. But with just two of us, I usually just wash everything
> by hand.

It's just two of us, too, but the dishwasher runs every couple of days.

I don't mind hand washing some things but there are a few items ...
pots that have cheese melted in them (gunks up the sponge), whisks,
and I can guarantee if I had a splatter screen, it would be on
the dishwasher hit parade.

nancy

Wayne Boatwright

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May 25, 2018, 10:31:37 AM5/25/18
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On Fri 25 May 2018 06:14:08a, Nancy Young told us...
I've never seen the logic of people who own good dishwshers who
choose to hand wash most everythng instead. Dishwashers are more
economical and more sanitary than hand washing. With the possible
exceptioin of items made from materials that cannot be put in the
dishwasher, there's no real excuse for hand washing.

We evem have a second less expensive dishwsher installed in our
utility room for washing non-food related items; e.g., trash cans,
litter boxes, empty flower pots, small garden tools, etc.

Ed Pawlowski

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May 25, 2018, 10:55:55 AM5/25/18
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On 5/25/2018 10:31 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> I've never seen the logic of people who own good dishwshers who
> choose to hand wash most everythng instead. Dishwashers are more
> economical and more sanitary than hand washing. With the possible
> exceptioin of items made from materials that cannot be put in the
> dishwasher, there's no real excuse for hand washing.

Agree with that. With the two of us, the machine runs roughly every
other day. We have enough dishes and utensils that we can wait for it
to be filled to run it. Everything comes out perfect at the push of a
button. Takes only a few minutes to put them away.


>
> We evem have a second less expensive dishwsher installed in our
> utility room for washing non-food related items; e.g., trash cans,
> litter boxes, empty flower pots, small garden tools, etc.

Sensible, even a cheap machine does a good job.

penm...@aol.com

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May 25, 2018, 10:56:00 AM5/25/18
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I fry saw-seege in a high-sided pot, a braiser, practically no spatter
escapes... available in various size capacities... for smaller cooking
I have a six quart braiser... even a chicken fryer is better to
protect against spatter than the typial skillet. If I'm going to do a
lot of frying I cut a burner-sized hole in a sheet of aluminum foil,
protects the surrounding area.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X1M2SO?keywords=braiser%20stainless%20steel&qid=1453675960&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3

penm...@aol.com

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May 25, 2018, 11:05:58 AM5/25/18
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I ran our dishwasher a few days ago for the first time in four
months... we don't generate enough items to wash in a week, we wash by
hand, takes five minutes to hand wash two place settings. And I
always wash all cookware by hand. I wash cutting boards and cutlery
by hand too. In fact last night I ordered a new set of cutting boards
from Amazon, supposed to arrive tomorrow, I thought these looked good:
https://www.amazon.com/Original-Reversible-Grip-Dishwasher-Non-Porous/dp/B01GP2MTXW/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1527194268&sr=8-8&keywords=cutting+board%2C+plastic&dpID=51vijva8rTL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
I wanted to order the red set but wouldn't allow me, black will be
fine.



U.S. Janet B.

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May 25, 2018, 11:06:53 AM5/25/18
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 03:21:25 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
<angelica...@yahoo.com> wrote:

snip
>
>With just the two of us, I run the dishwasher every day. Twice, sometimes,
>on the weekend.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

me too! I'm not a martyr ;)
Janet US

penm...@aol.com

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May 25, 2018, 11:12:19 AM5/25/18
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 09:14:08 -0400, Nancy Young <rjy...@verizon.net>
wrote:
Nancy, cooking cheese is what your nonstick coated pan is for.
I don't own any nonstick coated pans, but soaking with Dawn for ten
minutes releases most stuck on bits.. for the rest I use a stainless
steel wire spunge, for some reason gunk doesn't stick to it, probably
because it wasn't cooked on.

penm...@aol.com

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May 25, 2018, 12:13:41 PM5/25/18
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 09:06:47 -0600, U.S. Janet B. <J...@nospam.com>
wrote:
How does hand washing two place settings after dinner make one a
martyr? The ONLY reason for using a dishwasher for two place settings
is pure laziness. You probably don't bathe but once a year because
hand washing your body more than weekly makes you a martyr! LOL

Hand washing two place settings wastes no water, we don't fill our
oversized sink, we use a plastic dishpan... doesn't mess our hands
either, we use rubber gloves.
BTW, dishwashers do not sterilze, it's not an autoclave... and even if
you autoclaved your dishes then to keep them sterile they'd each
require individual packaging like band aids... I can assure you that
your kitchen cupboards are not sterile. Your entire house is not even
sanitary. Dishwashers claim to sanitize but ten minite out of the
dishwasher the unsanitary air in your house makes them unsanitary.
You want sanitary, use paper plates, in fact cheap paper plates are
sterile, as sterile as a roll of newprint, which is in fact sterile.
Your ream of printer paper is sterile.
I can understand using a dishwasher daily if one has a large family,
but for two people it's pure laziness.
I'm usually the one who handwashes dishes right after dinner, because
my wife has butter fingers. I don't bother with a drain board, I set
the washed dishes on a clean towel and then dry with a fresh towel and
put those two place settings away... takes me no more than five
minutes.
Dishwashing compounds ruin good dinnerware, also ruins good cookware,
it etches... machine wash good dinnerway, glassware, cookware every
day it won't be a month it'll all look sand blasted. Even a saloon
doesn't machine wash their glassware, they'd need to toss it in the
trash before the week is out, no one is going want to drink their
booze from an etched glass. They have a designated set up for hand
washing, typically right under the bar. Hand washing glassware is one
of the duties of a bartender. Restaurants don't machine wash their
glassware either, it's all hand washed. Of course yoose fast food
addicts don't get glassware.

dsi1

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May 25, 2018, 1:37:35 PM5/25/18
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On Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 12:21:31 PM UTC-10, Hank Rogers wrote:
>
> Those screens are a neat idea, but they are almost as much trouble to
> clean as simply cleaning up the spatters. Sometimes I use them for
> frying hamburgers, but never had much problems cooking Italian sausages
> without a screen.

Our family had a splatter screen when I was growing up. I didn't like them but used them back in the day. These days I cook at high temperatures so there's a lot of splatter. I wish there was some way to controlling the grease getting kicked around but I won't use 'em. Using a wok probably helps a little.

https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/J8s8qKKcQMjE7x6wAf5f3gYnvgISzpF43vQi2jUCzU8

Wayne Boatwright

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May 25, 2018, 2:16:42 PM5/25/18
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On Fri 25 May 2018 03:21:25a, Cindy Hamilton told us...
We often run ours more than once a day, especially when preparing a
big meal or have numerous large items to wash. Our machine also has
the option of washing only the top rack as well, but it's usually
fully loaded.

--

Roy

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May 25, 2018, 3:13:12 PM5/25/18
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Lucky you...$23.99 a set in CANADA of course as we get ripped off ROYALLY up
here in the "GREAT WHITE NORTH".

=====

U.S. Janet B.

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May 25, 2018, 3:28:55 PM5/25/18
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 11:05:53 -0400, penm...@aol.com wrote:
snip
>
>I ran our dishwasher a few days ago for the first time in four
>months...
snip
Eeeewww! All that mold and mildew collected on your dried out gaskets
and filter and then you run water through to wash the cat dishes and
poison your cats. I'm surprised you can't smell the stench from your
front door. Sheldon's house is not clean!
Janet US

Wayne Boatwright

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May 25, 2018, 4:47:54 PM5/25/18
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On Fri 25 May 2018 12:28:46p, U.S. Janet B. told us...
I sometimes have dishes loaded into the dishwasher that may not be
washed until the next day, but in that case I run a rinse only chcle
first before running through a regular cycle. Our sanitize cycle
heats the water to 180° F. I never worry about mold or mildew. If
we happen to be gone for a day or two, I leave the door open to let
the stainless steel interior completely dry out. The sump holds
enough water to insure that gaskets and seals remain lubicated.

U.S. Janet B.

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May 25, 2018, 5:30:44 PM5/25/18
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 20:47:51 -0000 (UTC), Wayne Boatwright
<waynebo...@xgmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri 25 May 2018 12:28:46p, U.S. Janet B. told us...
>
>> On Fri, 25 May 2018 11:05:53 -0400, penm...@aol.com wrote:
>> snip
>>>
>>>I ran our dishwasher a few days ago for the first time in four
>>>months...
>> snip
>> Eeeewww! All that mold and mildew collected on your dried out
>> gaskets and filter and then you run water through to wash the cat
>> dishes and poison your cats. I'm surprised you can't smell the
>> stench from your front door. Sheldon's house is not clean!
>> Janet US
>>
>
>I sometimes have dishes loaded into the dishwasher that may not be
>washed until the next day, but in that case I run a rinse only chcle
>first before running through a regular cycle. Our sanitize cycle
>heats the water to 180° F. I never worry about mold or mildew. If
>we happen to be gone for a day or two, I leave the door open to let
>the stainless steel interior completely dry out. The sump holds
>enough water to insure that gaskets and seals remain lubicated.

C'mon, Wayne. Sheldon said 4 months., not overnight. Allow me to
poke him.
Janet US

lucreti...@fl.it

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May 25, 2018, 5:33:35 PM5/25/18
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 20:47:51 -0000 (UTC), Wayne Boatwright
<waynebo...@xgmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri 25 May 2018 12:28:46p, U.S. Janet B. told us...
>
>> On Fri, 25 May 2018 11:05:53 -0400, penm...@aol.com wrote:
>> snip
>>>
>>>I ran our dishwasher a few days ago for the first time in four
>>>months...
>> snip
>> Eeeewww! All that mold and mildew collected on your dried out
>> gaskets and filter and then you run water through to wash the cat
>> dishes and poison your cats. I'm surprised you can't smell the
>> stench from your front door. Sheldon's house is not clean!
>> Janet US
>>
>
>I sometimes have dishes loaded into the dishwasher that may not be
>washed until the next day, but in that case I run a rinse only chcle
>first before running through a regular cycle. Our sanitize cycle
>heats the water to 180° F. I never worry about mold or mildew. If
>we happen to be gone for a day or two, I leave the door open to let
>the stainless steel interior completely dry out. The sump holds
>enough water to insure that gaskets and seals remain lubicated.

I've never thought to worry about it, the dishes may be there two,
possibly three days but they always come out perfect. Our water from
the tap is hotter than I could wash dishes in by hand so I figure I
don't use a heat cycle, nor the dry cycle either.

Wayne Boatwright

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May 25, 2018, 6:04:05 PM5/25/18
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On Fri 25 May 2018 02:30:36p, U.S. Janet B. told us...
Go for it, Janet and poke hard! :-)

Personally I'd rather see him stuffed into a large capacity high end
dishwasher and run it on successive sanitize cycles for days on end
or, optionally, into a large capacity high end front loading washing
machine run endlessly on the steam/sanitize cycle.

penm...@aol.com

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On Fri, 25 May 2018 13:28:46 -0600, U.S. Janet B. <J...@nospam.com>
wrote:
The only items in the dishwasher are plastic containers used for
storing food in the freezer and those are all hand washed before they
go in the dishwasher... only because the dishwasher does a better job
of removing the oily film deposited on plastic from frozen foods. If
we run the dish washer four times a year that's a lot.
We can easily live without a dishwasher. In fact both of us lived
most of our lives without a dishwasher. This is the only house we
lived in that has a dishwasher, and only because there was one when
we moved in but the thing didn't work. Dishwashers are not very
expensive so we decided to get a top of the line Maytag. The tech who
installed it laughed when he discovered that the last people hooked
it up with automobile heater hoses.

. The entire hose kit only cost $25.

Steve 'Rubber Goods' Wertz

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May 25, 2018, 8:52:31 PM5/25/18
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Lil' Wayne, you and your kiddie diddler partner should be WALLED UP a la "The Cask of Amontillado" and a bunch of flaming NAPALM poured upon you...that would "settle yer hash", once and for all...

Your choleric hatred of those here who call you out on your perverted ways only PROVES that you are guilty of the most heinous moral crimes - W-O-R-D ... !!!


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Best
Greg

Julie Bove

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May 26, 2018, 5:30:13 AM5/26/18
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"Wayne Boatwright" <waynebo...@xgmail.com> wrote in message
news:XnsA8ED4C8F6F774wa...@85.214.115.223...
> On Fri 25 May 2018 06:14:08a, Nancy Young told us...
>
>> On 5/24/2018 8:32 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
>>> lucreti...@fl.it wrote:
>>
>>>> Shove it in the dishwasher, easy.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, good idea. But with just two of us, I usually just wash
>>> everything by hand.
>>
>> It's just two of us, too, but the dishwasher runs every couple of
>> days.
>>
>> I don't mind hand washing some things but there are a few items
>> ... pots that have cheese melted in them (gunks up the sponge),
>> whisks, and I can guarantee if I had a splatter screen, it would
>> be on the dishwasher hit parade.
>>
>> nancy
>>
>
> I've never seen the logic of people who own good dishwshers who
> choose to hand wash most everythng instead. Dishwashers are more
> economical and more sanitary than hand washing. With the possible
> exceptioin of items made from materials that cannot be put in the
> dishwasher, there's no real excuse for hand washing.
>
> We evem have a second less expensive dishwsher installed in our
> utility room for washing non-food related items; e.g., trash cans,
> litter boxes, empty flower pots, small garden tools, etc.

Since I'm disabled, it's a real chore for me to load and unload the
dishwasher. Hand washing is much easier.

Gary

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May 26, 2018, 6:30:53 AM5/26/18
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Julie Bove wrote:
>
> Since I'm disabled, it's a real chore for me to load and unload the
> dishwasher. Hand washing is much easier.

As I live alone, I just hand wash twice a day. My dishwasher
stores pots and lids. I'll empty it about once a month, put in a
little dish soap and run it on short cycle just to keep it in
working order. I have a wooden dish rack beside the sink for hand
washed items. I hand wash and rinse but let them air dry. Put
things away right before I hand wash again.

The wooden dish rack stays on counter permanently. I have a
functional kitchen, not a show kitchen. Wooden dish rack is not
an eye sore to me.
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