Shattered glass in dishwasher - can I just run it?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

I used a wad of Playdough to pick up shards of glass in my oven one time. Worked well!

[Anonymous]

This is what You tube is for. You need to open up the drain and get all of the glass out of there or you are gonna ruin your dishwasher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, are you my son?

Op are you my husband?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what You tube is for. You need to open up the drain and get all of the glass out of there or you are gonna ruin your dishwasher.

I watched a guy eat a bunch of glass lightbulbs on YouTube, so the pps that are worried about ingesting glass are wrong.

[Anonymous]

So like, my wife just broke a pyrex measuring cup into ours, and glass dust straight up went everywhere. She ran the dishwasher. I am only concerned that tiny glass bits will slice through my veins in my heart and brain, dont care about the dishwasher. If I start dying I will totally try to reply before I give out.

Not joking. thx bye!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So like, my wife just broke a pyrex measuring cup into ours, and glass dust straight up went everywhere. She ran the dishwasher. I am only concerned that tiny glass bits will slice through my veins in my heart and brain, dont care about the dishwasher. If I start dying I will totally try to reply before I give out.

Not joking. thx bye!

Glass is heavier than water. It would rinse away. Dump and rinse and standing water in containers.

[Anonymous]

Vacuum. A roll of packing tape fixed so the sticky side is out is good for catching small invisible pieces too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would worry the shards will break your dishwasher. Vacuum and follow up with damp paper towel.

+1 After you are sure you've gotten it all out, empty it and then run it once or twice. You want to be really sure there is not glass grit or shards swishing around in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vacuum it out.

Yes. Shop vac if there is water. Clean it out as much as possible.

[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