Clever Dave

[perldiver]

So I decided to bleach my sink, because that's the first step in the Shine Your Sink recipe from FlyLady.net, a website that yummygirl pointed me to on how to get the household side of your life under better control.  (Yeah, not too much backstory in THAT sentence!)

So I get the sink filling, I fill a 1-cup measure with bleach, dump it in, and then start to put the cup measure in the dishwasher.  "Ah," I think.  "The dishwasher is full, I'll run it."  Then Mr. Minopoli's voice drifts back to me from 11th-grade chemistry saying "Hey! Chlorine bleach leftovers on the cup, plus dishwasher detergent...chlorine gas ring any bells?" 

All things considered, I'll wait until the sink is empty, then clean it by hand before sticking it in the 'washer for double surety.

Two thoughts remain: 

• I can't actually remember what the active ingredient in detergent that causes the reaction.  For that matter, is it even dishwasher detergent?  Can't quite recall.
• Thank you, Mr. Minopoli.  As much of a pest as I'm sure I was with all my questions, you were a wonderful teacher.

[Update:  Ammonia!  That's it!] 

Comments

[avram]

You could clean the cup in the bathroom sink.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Dave, Dave, Dave. There's not enough chlorine there to generate any amount of gas that will cause you problems.

You'd need like a cup full of bleach and a whole bucketful of towels used to clean up after Naughty Defiant Corgis in a washing machine before getting enough to make you sorry you didn't hold your breath first.

(No damage, really - just a really stern reminder.)

Anyway, I was hoping you'd tell me why I can't access the Kayuda website after not messing around with it for holy-cow-has-it-been-that-long. I can't find anything in your posts and the comm hasn't been updated for two years, so nothing's telling me anything.