Shattered glass in dishwasher - can I just run it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's kind of terrifying. You do not want to accidentally eat broken glass.

How do you imagine this happening?

[Anonymous]

Pyrex guy reporting in!

I prepared a lengthy reply that included more information, but never posted it, here's what ended up happening:

We just kind of had to look for glass for a few days... Took the dishwasher apart to look for glass, other than 1 additional shard in the dishwasher, and the one I found on a 'clean' dish that spurred my panic, we didn't find any. Any ultrafine particles of glass ultimately would be comparable to hard water deposits in the machine? I mean, I'm not dead yet, so we're all good here probably.

[Anonymous]

Vacuum using a shop vac.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pyrex guy reporting in!

I prepared a lengthy reply that included more information, but never posted it, here's what ended up happening:

We just kind of had to look for glass for a few days... Took the dishwasher apart to look for glass, other than 1 additional shard in the dishwasher, and the one I found on a 'clean' dish that spurred my panic, we didn't find any. Any ultrafine particles of glass ultimately would be comparable to hard water deposits in the machine? I mean, I'm not dead yet, so we're all good here probably.

Glass is probably harder than hard-water deposits. One is a calcium mineral (of some sort, likely carbonate) and the other is silicon dioxide. Regardless, glass isn't going to stick to plates and it's denser than water.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Pp for the tips I dropped a glass Casserole dish putting it in my dishwasher

[Anonymous]

Shop vac for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do not just those dishes through again. You need to unload it, rinse each item in the sink to get off any shards of glass, wipe down the dishwasher, and then you can run it again.

That's crazy. Broken pieces of glass are not going to stick to your dishes.

[Anonymous]

Sure.

[Anonymous]

I would have taped the dishwasher door shut and sold the house. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

This just happened to me. My wife broke a glass in the DW. I ran it anyway, heard a scary grinding noise and shut it down immediately.
Here’s what I did:

Carefully take out the big bits by hand.
Shop vac out the rest, including any standing water (vac should be wet/dry type — see instructions for wet vacuuming).
Remove filter assembly at the bottom of DW (keep screws in safe place).
Vacuum out whatever was under.
Clean filter assembly parts in sink.
Put it all back together.
Test empty DW with a quick or rinse cycle and hope for the best!

Currently on last step and so far so good 🤞

[Anonymous]

Pick out the big pieces. The smaller ones will just dissolve in hot water and be gone.

[Anonymous]

No, you pretty obviously cannot just run the dishwasher with glass shards in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pick out the big pieces. The smaller ones will just dissolve in hot water and be gone.

This person is either kidding or giving very bad advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A glass shattered on my counter and a lot of it landed in the open dishwasher. I removed the big pieces, but it was the kind of shatter where there are tons of tiny shards everywhere that are hard to even see. Can I just run the dishwasher and let it wash out that way? Will it mess anything up to do that? The dishes were clean, going to run them again anyway to make sure no glass gets in food. Just don't want to be foolish and break the dishwasher.

Use a hand vac to get it out.