Dishwasher Pete is the pen name for Pete Jordan, author of the popular Dishwasherzine as well as the forthcoming book of the same title and whose goal was to wash dishes in every state in America. For more than a decade, he moved from city to city, state to state, washing dishes in restaurants, hospitals, cafeterias, ski resorts, camps, communes, a fish cannery, an offshore oil rig, a dinner train and just about anywhere where dishes were dirty. A zine—an abbreviation of the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ...
The fifteen issues of the Dishwasher zine are now out of print but a memoir by Dishwasher Pete of his years pearl diving will be published by HarperPerennial in 2007.
Dishwasher Pete has contributed to the following episodes of the radio program This American Life: This American Life (TAL) is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio. ...
Episode #56 "Name Change"
Episode #74 "Conventions"
Episode #102 "Roadtrip!"
Episode #109 "Notes on Camp"
Episode #115 "First Day"
His writing also appeared on the Open Letters website:
"A Clean Conscience"
"The Rat Problem"
Dishwasher Pete also volunteered as a healthy human guinea pig in drug experiments, and he contributed short articles to the zine Guinea Pig Zero: A Journal for Human Research Subjects.
Quotes
"Just keep washing." -- Bob Dole, in response to Dishwasher Pete asking his advice for the dishwashers of America. [1]
Dishwashers that are installed into standard kitchen cabinets have a standard width and depth of 60 cm (Europe) or 24 inches (US), and most dishwashers must be installed into a hole a mininum of 86 cm (Europe) or 34 inches (US) tall.
Dishwashers may come in standard or tall tub designs; standard tub dishwashers have a service kickplate beneath the dishwasher door that allows for simpler maintenance and installation, but tall tub dishwashers have approximately 20% more capacity and better sound dampening from having a continuous front door.
However, pressure switches (some dishwashers use a pressure switch and flow meter) are not required in most microprocessor controlled dishwashers as they use the motor and sometimes a rotational position sensor to sense the resistance of water, when it senses there is no cavitation it knows it has the optimal amount of water.
Unlike manual dishwashing, which relies largely on mechanical action to remove soiling, mechanical dishwashers use the circulation of quite hot (55-65 degrees Celsius 130-150 degrees Fahrenheit) water and very strong detergents (most far too alkaline to be exposed to skin) to achieve its cleaning effect.
The dishwasher therefore is mainly a device for spraying water on the dishes - first detergent-added water for cleaning purposes, then pure water (though sometimes with a rinsing aid added) to remove the detergent residue.
DishwasherPete is currently on hiatus after a having a bad experience on a Greyhound bus (see http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/98/102.html ''TAL'' episode "Roadtrip!" for details).
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