TJ Hemrick wrote: > John, what kind of soap are you using? Don't tell me standard > dishwasher soap. That stuff will tear the hell out of aluminum. I > once had a the Wife/GF (no, I'm not saying which!) put one of those > expensive aluminum pans in the machine and the lye in the soap > stripped the anodization off and then pitted the hell out of it. I'd > be real careful about regular dish soap. It won't damage the metal > and it will cut the grease but it's meant to bubble and suds and your > machine will spit bubbles and suds if you put just a little in there. > Just my 2 cents I have cast aluminum pans. I find regular Cascade makes them come out nice and shiney without pitting them. I've had bad luck with off-brand detergents and anything that claims to have citrus in it. YMMV. I'm not sure I'd want to put anything I eat off of into a dishwasher that had had engine parts coated with toxic petroleum residue in it, though. -- David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 VW Diesel Westfalia '86 Volvo 240DL wagon |
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