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Can you wash china into a dishwasher?

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  • 15-01-2017 2:31pm
    #1
    Broken Hearted Road
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    Cleaning out the attic and a box of china cups and saucers were found in the attic. Given as a wedding present to my parents back in the late 70s.

    My mam gave them a hand wash and now has the dishwasher loaded including all this china. My worry is that this is going to break in the machine. Couldn't give a rat's ass about the china to be honest. My concern is for the dishwasher. I don't want to be picking up pieces of broken china from the dishwashers floor and I don't want the machine to pack up on us either.

    Can you put china into the dishwasher for a wash? Gifted back in the 70s, there is no information on the plates with dishwasher/microwave safe that you can find often on these kind of things.


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    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    No. India perhaps but not china


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I wouldn't put that china in a dishwasher. Just not worth the risk.


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    Fleawuss
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    Does exactly what it says on the tin.


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    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    Wash them individually by hand, you lazy useless prick.


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    Peregrine
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    How big is the dishwasher?


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    s4uv3
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    I'd be afraid of the pattern washing off the china more than the stuff breaking...


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    Peregrine
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    On a more serious note: they could be but if they're from the 70s then they were probably never tested in the dishwasher at all.


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    Goya
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    Why do the same handful of people keep using After Hours as a search engine?


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    Broken Hearted Road
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    s4uv3 wrote: »
    I'd be afraid of the pattern washing off the china more than the stuff breaking...

    I doubt my mam cares for the stuff to be honest considering they were left in the attic and forgotten about.


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    Stravos Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭Stravos Murphy


    Peregrine wrote: »
    On a more serious note: they could be but if they're from the 70s then they were probably never tested in the dishwasher at all.

    Dishwashers have been around longer than you think. Invented in 1886.


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    Doyler92
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    It would need to be a big dishwasher.


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    Birneybau
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    Doyler92 wrote: »
    It would need to be a big dishwasher.

    Ah, so


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    Archeron
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    I wouldn't. We wash our good cups in bubbly warm water with a soft sponge, and our good cups came free with tokens collected from milk cartons many years ago.


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    RobertKK
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    Flimpson wrote: »
    Why do the same handful of people keep using After Hours as a search engine?

    I was thinking the same 'I would google that'.


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    #16
    Mr. CooL ICE
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    China china china china china china china china china china china china china china china china china.

    China.


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    The Backwards Man
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    RobertKK wrote: »
    I was thinking the same 'I would google that'.
    They probably googled 'where are the biggest shower of knowalls on the internet?'


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    Advbrd
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    They probably googled 'where are the biggest shower of knowalls on the internet?'
    China?


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    #19
    Senna
    Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    AH, answering all your household cleaning questions since 1997


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    alan1963
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    Stravos Murphy wrote: »
    Dishwashers have been around longer than you think. Invented in 1886.
    I can remember reading once that the dishwasher was invented because the fella''s kitchen maids used to keep breaking the china and he wanted a machine that would be more careful.


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    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Archeron wrote: »
    I wouldn't. We wash our good cups in bubbly warm water with a soft sponge, and our good cups came free with tokens collected from milk cartons many years ago.

    Oh to have good cups.
    We used to take turns with an old Nutella jar one of our fathers found in a ditch...


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    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    alan1963 wrote: »
    I can remember reading once that the dishwasher was invented because the fella''s kitchen maids used to keep breaking the china and he wanted a machine that would be more careful.

    Damn machines putting humans out of work.


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    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭Stigura


    If that china was made in China, it'll be rank crap anyway. Charidy shop.


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    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Great bunch of dishwashers.


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    #25
    Mint Sauce
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    Hang on OP. If your mum has already hand washed them. Why do you want to wash them again?


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    byte
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    byte


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Hang on OP. If your mum has already hand washed them. Why do you want to wash them again?
    So that he could start a thread!


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