washing dishes in a strong oxidizer
Today I learned that when ammonia fails to make your old mycotoxin-infested dishes safe, you can use 40% hydrogen peroxide to get the mycotoxins out of your newly-contaminated dishwasher. Then you can go out in the back yard and wipe down all the dishes the ammonia in the dishwasher failed to clean.
The reason I thought ammonia would work was that another moldie (i.e., a person injured by mold mycotoxins) consulted a doctor somewhere in the upper Midwest for $100 an hour, and he said ammonia would decontaminate your moldy stuff. For free, I will tell you that we had much better luck with a 40% hydrodrogen peroxide solution. Now, maybe I didn't do a fair test because a dishwasher can't actually rub the dishes with ammonia like I did personally using the hydrogen peroxide, but there was no way I was going to stooge around wiping dishes with something that smells and stings your eyes like ammonia. I'll stick with the little burn marks above my gloves, thank you.
The reason I thought ammonia would work was that another moldie (i.e., a person injured by mold mycotoxins) consulted a doctor somewhere in the upper Midwest for $100 an hour, and he said ammonia would decontaminate your moldy stuff. For free, I will tell you that we had much better luck with a 40% hydrodrogen peroxide solution. Now, maybe I didn't do a fair test because a dishwasher can't actually rub the dishes with ammonia like I did personally using the hydrogen peroxide, but there was no way I was going to stooge around wiping dishes with something that smells and stings your eyes like ammonia. I'll stick with the little burn marks above my gloves, thank you.
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