Eli5: Why shouldn’t you put home made ceramics (a mug, for example) through the dishwasher? If they can withstand the heat of a kiln, surely a dishwasher is fine?

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I mean, I put them through the dishwasher sometimes anyway, but I’m told I shouldn’t? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Chemist here. You can. If you care about it, bad things might happen, but if you have lots of mugs and don’t care about losing a few an evolutionary process will take place where only the strong survive.

If it can’t survive the dishwasher, it just didn’t want to live anymore. So sad.

Disclaimer: none of my chemistry knowledge was used to make this statement. I’m just lazy and don’t like handwashing.