I have just found out there’s ecoli in my well water at the place we just moved to and am hearing I need 165 to kill ecoli but my dishwasher says it only heats to 155 but claims this meets the standard for safe drinking water.
Confused about whether or not it’s safe to use the dishes coming out of my dishwasher till the well manager can come up with a method to treat the water or something.
I can’t even imagine how I would boil the water I use to run through the dishwasher or clean my dishes with boiling water by hand sounds super fun.
Is it safe to use the dishwasher?
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Your dishwasher uses detergent. E.coli is a fragile bacterium with an outer layer made of lipids. Detergent rips that layer clean off, then attacks the rest of the bacterium and soon kills it, even without the heat reaching 165°F. The end of the cycle – the drying would also typically be sufficient to inactivate E. Coli that needs moist environments to survive. The dry heat will bake it to death
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