Found out the hard way that dishwashers have a secret spot for food to hide

I was at a call last Tuesday in a little house off Maple Street, and the lady says her dishwasher has been smelling like a dead animal for weeks. I figured it was the filter or maybe something stuck in the drain pump, so I pull the kickplate and start looking around. Three years of doing this and I still get surprised sometimes - I found a whole chicken bone wedged between the outer tub and the insulation blanket. It must have slipped down during a rinse cycle and just sat there rotting. The smell when I pulled it out was so bad I almost gagged right there in her kitchen. She just laughed and said her kid loves drumsticks and probably dropped it loading the racks. Has anyone else found weird stuff hidden in weird spots on dishwashers or is it just me?

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tyler626d ago

That melted spoon sculpture sounds like modern art I'd accidentally create.

the_ryan26d agoMost Upvoted

Wait, did your buddy ever find something weird in his dishwasher? My friend Mike found a whole-ass plastic spoon melted to the heating element once. It was like a modern art sculpture of melted plastic and burnt cheese.

lily_singh226d ago

Oh man, that is foul but I've seen worse honestly. If you ever deal with this again, pull the kickplate and check the insulation blanket first because that's where stuff gets trapped 90% of the time. @tyler6 is right about the melted spoon thing, I had a customer find a parmesan cheese lid melted into a perfect circle on the heating element once. The best tip I can give is to run the cleaning cycle with a cup of white vinegar on the top rack every couple months, it really cuts down on smells from random gunk. Idk if anyone else does this but I always tell people to keep an eye out when kids load dishes, they drop stuff everywhere.

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