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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.cooks
Subject: Re: dishwasher as sterilizer
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 12:15:54 EST
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Summary: sterilizing baby things with dishwasher

["At last! My new gorilla-detector machine!  They can't fool me now!"]

> Things that are a waste of money in a dishwasher:
> 	  ...
> 	* "Sterilizer" cycles. The minute you touch the dishes they are no
> 	  longer sterile. (Consumer Reports supports this claim).

Many of my women in-laws have assured me that you can sterilize baby
things by running them through an ordinary wash cycle in a dishwasher.
If somebody tells YOU this, bite her head off!  This rumor is deadly.

You need _steam_ to kill those bugs.  Hot water and water vapor only
make them uncomfortable.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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