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Also with three different things apparently, which is nice because while you were getting the third thing the four year old just smoothed a jam sandwiched down on your counter top.
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Visually clean is exactly what I meant. Pristine stainless looks great, but even just humidity will cause it to lose its luster relatively quickly. It's an excellent choice for keeping things sanitary, but that's not why interior designers choose it. They choose it because of what it looks like when it's been polished. The average person who live with one for awhile will eventually notice that their kitchen doesn't look like that without putting quite a bit of effort into it. Stainless is still a great choice, but it's misrepresented and mismarked by designers as a "a simple way to make your kitchen look great." I have polished a poo poo-load of stainless in my life.
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I have four kids and they were small during the time you could not find a kitchen appliance that wasn't stainless steel. It was a dark dark time and I don't want to talk about it 
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minivanmegafun posted:Yep. Anyone who knows how to clean a car can maintain a stainless countertop and likely has all the stuff to do it. We loved our quartz countertops at our old house for how easy they were to take care of
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My old house has a good stainless sink with wings and it requires a wipe down at night that takes a minute. Even that is just so the water doesn't evaporate and leave filthy mineral circles.
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I just hit my white appliances with a damp cloth after cooking and it's good enough visually for us. My parents had stainless stuff when I was a kid and it again always looked fine after a maybe daily 2 min wipe down. I wish my counters had a solid colour or were just white. It's fake stone and hides everything. I want to see the dirt so I can keep it like a spaceship
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Someone should make a roomba except for cleaning stainless steel.
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"I'm okay with filth and disease as long as it's not visible on my appliances."
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Prav posted:it's a good place to die. easy to clean; won't leave any stains. DIY & Hobbies › Complete bathroom overhaul - Is stainless the hill you want to die on? 
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FogHelmut posted:"I'm okay with filth and disease as long as it's not visible on my appliances." Oh wow, didn't realize that water spots were actually filth and disease
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Water is mold that hasn't grown yet, or is that only in bathrooms?
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Snak posted:I suggested heating the rocks sooo long ago. Dude. That gave me an idea. Don't use rocks, fill it with dessicant beads. The desiccant beads will absorb the moisture. What you do is have an extremely powerful heater and a system of blowers that will blow really hot dry air through the beads and dry them out. (Make sure you open the windows in the bathroom because the air will probably be well over 200 degrees F. And very moist.)
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brugroffil posted:We loved our quartz countertops at our old house for how easy they were to take care of I want a quartz refriderator.
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FogHelmut posted:"I'm okay with filth and disease as long as it's not visible on my appliances." I like my appliances to be black, whether from make or from usage 
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Burt Sexual posted:I want a quartz refriderator.
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They tried to make ships out of ice during WWII, but Home Depot doesn't have any fridges made out of ice in stock. Makes you think.
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Motronic posted:So if the go-to material for commercial kitchens and sterile medical applications is "a bitch to keep clean" could you please let me know what material should be used? That said, I don't think stainless is a bitch to clean by any means. My appliances are brushed stainless and I just squirt some windex on them every once in a while. I like seeing that they are dirty, it takes 2 minutes to clean them and I know they are clean. The fridges I grew up with were a nasty ivory or beige color with an orange peel that was impossible to clean, I guess it built up my immune system.
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brugroffil posted:Chisel all of your
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Crotch Fruit posted:Accountability is equally as important as cleanliness in a commercial kitchen or hospital. If anything, the fact that stainless shows dirt and fingerprints so well helps to ensure that the janitors are actually doing their job. If cleanliness were the top priority hospitals would be using copper for its antimicrobial properties. How often were you really licking your fridge door though? Visually clean gets the job done for any surfaces in a private kitchen that don't touch raw food.
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I think you guys are totally missing the point of what I'm saying. It's marketing. The rise of stainless as an interior decorator's and real-estate agent's dream is a result of the pristine appearance. Normally, in marketing, things that hide dirt sell well. Because they don't look dirty. I'm not actually saying that stainless is bad. I never did. I'm saying that the decorator and real-estate agent love-affair with stainless will fade as people realize that it takes work to keep it looking that good, as opposed to other options which hide dirt. I'm not saying that hiding dirt is desirable, I'm saying that stainless will stop inflating value when people realize that keeping up its appearance is actually higher maintenance.
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I wonder how many people with stainless steel kitchens clean their kitchen windows with the same degree of fastidiousness? Also I hope people arn't preparing food directly on their surfaces because you should really have different chopping boards for different things and one for chicken all on it's own. 
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WrenP-Complete posted:A bathtub with different flooring around it... that is also in a hallway? Looks like MEAT's back on the menu
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learnincurve posted:I wonder how many people with stainless steel kitchens clean their kitchen windows with the same degree of fastidiousness? Also I hope people arn't preparing food directly on their surfaces because you should really have different chopping boards for different things and one for chicken all on it's own. Oh great, another shill for Big Chopping Board.
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learnincurve posted:I wonder how many people with stainless steel kitchens clean their kitchen windows with the same degree of fastidiousness? Also I hope people arn't preparing food directly on their surfaces because you should really have different chopping boards for different things and one for chicken all on it's own. This is my IRL kitchen sink 
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FogHelmut posted:This is my IRL kitchen sink why do you refer to your family as employees..  a step too far friend.
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This is my kitchen setup. It's very convenient though sometimes I get weird urges while chopping offal
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Time for some  Since I have some time before I'll ever get to the point of actually installing my bathtub, I put together a mock mold garden to see how well it grows in my bathroom. I splashed it with a bit of water and will let it fester for a while. Will update as spores progress. 
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bEatmstrJ posted:Time for some Neat, what's your method for detecting the mold? The nasty stuff isn't always visible right away, especially against a dark background.
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Did you bathe in the water first?
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Subjunctive posted:Did you bathe in the water first? No but my hands were dirty and the water was transferred with them, does that count?
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This is a great 34 page troll.
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One man on the internet spends $20k to destroy his bathroom and expose that mold is a myth
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bEatmstrJ posted:Time for some Truthfully you peed/jacked off on them, right?
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Burt Sexual posted:Truthfully you peed/jacked off on them, right? Keyboard goop post but with bath rock mold instead of keyboard scrapings.
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The trick is to install some heating coils and have the pebbles act as a combined sauna oven at ~ 150 degree celsius. Kills all molds reliably.
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Holy moly, this just got interesting again! Can I send you some links of ways to test for mold and bacterial growth?
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bEatmstrJ posted:Time for some lmao
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WrenP-Complete posted:Holy moly, this just got interesting again! Can I send you some links of ways to test for mold and bacterial growth? Sure.
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bEatmstrJ posted:Sure. Great, I'll reach out to my sister-in-law, who is a molecular biologist and then circle back around.
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Wren, you should do a control study with your own rocks and water Hell, this sounds like a group project while we wait for the OP's next thread about emergency kitchen renovation
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