The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIV

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I got it off with my teeth.
 
Atticus said:
2. I've heard that dish washing machine uses less water than washing dishes by hand, and frankly, I don't believe it. If it is true, does the more poisonous dish washing substance (what is it called, the thing that's mixed with water) compensate the lesser use of water from environmental point of view?
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The substance is called "soap" and it's used no matter which way you wash your dishes. :crazyeye: As for the rest of your question, according to about.com Scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany who studied the issue found that the dishwasher uses only half the energy, one-sixth of the water, and less soap than hand-washing an identical set of dirty dishes. Even the most sparing and careful washers could not beat the modern dishwasher. The study also found that dishwashers excelled in cleanliness over hand washing.

It actually makes sense when you think about it. A dishwasher only uses a tiny amount of water at any one time and sprays it all around while hand washing involves full immersion and is particularly wasteful when rinsing.
 
Atticus said:
2. I've heard that dish washing machine uses less water than washing dishes by hand, and frankly, I don't believe it. If it is true, does the more poisonous dish washing substance (what is it called, the thing that's mixed with water) compensate the lesser use of water from environmental point of view?
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I don't have any study to prove it. But I believe it. I use a lot of water washing dishes by hand. But the machine does not fill the entire place with water. It cycles a smaller amount through many times.
 
AFAIK, it's exactly the same soap. Why wouldn't it be? The purpose is to wash dishes and what works well in the one case surely would work just as well in the other.

There are differences between laundry soap and hand soap and car wash soap because they are intended to wash different things. Even then, the differences are minimal. For example, dish soap makes a fine shampoo. I remember one article Consumer's Reports wrote evaluating shampoos. They added a dish soap to their trial and it came out above average!
 
Because one has to be suitable to touch by hand and the other doesn't. At least here people often talk about machine dish washing soap like it was the ultimate cleaning stuff, the soap you should use when everything else fails.
 
You certainly have a point. And the dishwasher detergent can't be very sudsy either. Still, fundamentally it's all just soap.
 
Can someone translate this conversation? :)

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So, what's the weapon guys?
 
I got a picture of perfection outside where he lives.

guess i'm sorted :smug:
 
Why did the Wicked Witch have Buckets of Water just lying around her home?
 
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