Justin;35047 wrote:Referring back to the boil in a pan test
Playing devils advocate for a moment.....is it a valuable test to test them at temps higher than the dishwasher gets to? By boiling for such a prolonged time could this have an adverse effect on the coating that wouldn't normally occur in the dishwasher?
My tests are always carried out in what I believe to be real world scenarios. I leave them in the dishwasher for up to 3 months minimum, washing daily. This is the most anyone could want to wash them and in actual fact customers probably dont wash anywhere near this often.
That is the right way to test, of course, but sometimes you don't have three months or more before you need to make a decision. How do you know the supplier is even buying in the same mugs after three months? They would have had fresh shipments in by then.
You also need to have access to a dishwasher. At present, I don't. The only one I have proper access to is only used twice a week - so it'd take me almost a year to perform the same "three month" test, and that's not particularly practical when you need to make a quick decision.
Of course, if all mugs came from suppliers with documented evidence of tests performed, we wouldn't need to do any of this.
