Sunday, January 04, 2009
After a taxing holiday season our dishwasher is acting fussy. It is getting up in years, and it gets rode hard, but I want more from it. We've discovered a product that seems to goose its performance-- it is a bottle of some sort of undoubtedly extremely caustic something-or-other that you put in the flatware basket. You run the machine, empty, as hot as it will go, and then it washes dishes properly again. For a while. The secret chemical additive put me in mind of STP. Remember STP? I guess it still exists, but when I was a kid there used to be commercials for it on all the time, featuring the company's owner, Andy Granatelli. It was an additive-- you supplemented your regular oil with STP. In what was almost certainly not a tribute to Somerset Maugham STP's slogan was "The Racer's Edge". Sometimes the product's efficacy was demonstrated by having Rocky Marciano attempt to hold a screwdriver by its tip after it had been dipped in STP treated motor oil. The tool would slip right out from the champ's fingers. I hope the dishwasher stuff is as magical.
// posted by Bill @ 6:19 PM 
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