Thread: Anybody ever put their Norton in the Dishwasher?

I dont think the dishwasher would hurt your stone a bit if you dont use the heating element to dry it, let it air dry, it gets VERY HOT in a dishwasher,and if any water is trapped within the stone and tries to expand as it heats up,CRACK! The only other negative I can forsee is that as time goes buy the metal particulate could eat at the plastic pump, but that would take years and youd never know it.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Yeah, turn off the heated dry.

I'm not worried about water expansion - it's a very porous stone and if a water can get into a crevice it most certainly can get out of it as well. But I can see it cracking if you leave it wet outside. Up there you're probably covered in a foot of snow by this time of the year

I'd hesitate to run it through the dishwasher if any dishes were in it - getting food particles and/or bacteria stuck in the hone seems likely.

Gugi - no snow...yet. We had a wee storm squall last week, but this week has been balmy (around 15c).

Mark

Without the heat, I doubt the dishwasher will do any harm. I just don't see how it would do any good. It sounds like you really need a good lapping. After that, you might want to lap your hones!
If you have all this crap embedded in the hone, then the odds are that the hone is also not flat. Just get some wet/dry sandpaper, put it on your countertop, pour a little water on it, and lap away, occasionally rinsing off the sandpaper. Once it's lapped, you'll have a hone that looks brand new!

i have not tried the dishwasher ... but to clean it simply lap all the surfaces, chamfer the edges and you are all set to go... mine looked horrid after spend a year or son in a bucket of water... with just a little bleach thrown in when i changed that water... lapped it and it looked new ... but the grit marking are gone

Ummm, there's probably some risk that you'll get suds every time you use it after a trip through the dishwasher