Thanks everyone, a lot of great idea's here.

"Arthur Shapiro" > wrote in message
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> In article >, "sandy"
> wrote:
> >Besides doing dishes,,,,I wonder what you use your dishwasher for?
>
> A couple times a year, I put in the electrostatic elements from my
Honeywell
> whole-house air cleaner. Only one of the two fits in at a time, and the
water
> gets rather grossly black from all the dust and dirt that's been collected
on
> these high-voltage units.
>
> I probably wouldn't wash any dishes simultaneously!
>
> Art