this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
253 points (98.8% liked)

Dull Men's Club

3460 readers
197 users here now

An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.

https://dullmensclub.com/

1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.

2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.

3. Avoid repetitive topics.

4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.

There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.

Some other communities to consider before posting:

5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.

6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.

7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.

.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Today, as an old guy, I was cleaning our glass top stove. The Weiman cleaner is in the cupboard above the stove. I squirted a bunch on the dirty rings and then realized its normally white not blue paste.

Turns out I grabbed the Cascade Complete dishwasher liquid. Duh.

I started to wipe it and realized it was pulling off the baked on food better than the stove cleaning product.

Best it has looked in 5 years.

P.s. made sure to fully rinse all of it off so no residue remained.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

i don't remember which soap or cleaning podcast that i was listening to that said that out of the common household cleaners dishwasher liquid it one that has the highest percentage surfactant per gram or whatever. neat testimonial.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Along with that, dishwasher detergent is very concentrated, and useful for cleaning anything really greasy, or when you need it to not foam up (bottles/jars).

[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would presume that powdered dishwasher detergent is as concentrated as you can get?

Its really true wasteful really that most household cleaning products is mostly water. Instead you could buy a years worth in concentrated form and dilute with tap water instead of ship around shit tons of water adding to the carbon footprint.

I have narrowed down my cleaning repertoire to strong hand dishing soap, baking soda, white vinegar, linseed oil soap (for the wooden floor) Depending on the application I just mix the appropriate things

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

The problem lies in how dangerous some of the chemicals get when you concentrate them past a certain amount. A lot of people would end up getting pretty seriously hurt trying to dilute pure acids or blow something up improperly storing concentrated peroxide. Don't get me wrong, capitalism is what has led to dish soaps being barely more than water these days, but you can buy the concentrated versions of a lot of stuff and see for yourself how dangerous even having some of them laying around can be.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Huh good shout. I don't have q dishwasher but might get the liquid for cleaning.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For every product there is an expert who can tell you in great detail about its long history and amazing facts.

The video on producing the pencil is an excellent example of this.

[–] wibble@reddthat.com -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you don't like to learn how things work, then yes.

[–] wibble@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Wasn't the context. Go look up the boring talks podcast number#41. Fascinating stuff.