I once asked my nephew about this - he worked in a hotel back then. Yes, indeed, they clean toilet brushes in a dishwasher.

But it is a separate one that is only for toilet brushes and brush holders, nothing else.

I bet they wash the poop knife in there too

Wow, you can never tell with people. Go to someone’s house, and maybe they’re secret toilet-brush-in-dishwasher people. And there you are, innocently using their dishes.

Yikes. I would never eat there again!

Logically, the heat used for drying should kill any germs. But why risk it.

I rinse mine in the toilet bowl when it has bleach based toilet cleaner in it. That alone keeps them pretty clean.

There’s a really good short form podcast by a couple food scientists in the USA and they covered this one saying not risky. https://www.riskyornot.co/episodes/548-cleaning-the-toilet-brushes-in-the-dishwasher-top-rack

I mean logically the kind of shit that grows on your dishes isn't much better for you than the literal shit that a toilet brush would scrub out of your toilet bowl. They both contain a lot of the same bacteria, you wouldn't be much better off licking an old used plate that has been sitting in a moist environment for a few days before you put the dishwasher on than you would be from licking a toilet brush. Well made dishwashers are designed to vigorously wash and, with the right settings and detergent, sanitize everything inside them so that they are safe to eat off of. Heck the machines they use to sanitize surgical equipment are essentially fancy dishwashers. But emotionally I couldn't do it. Even if I used the best dishwasher known to man and rewashed everything multiple times, I just wouldn't be able to get over that mental hurdle.

Bottom shelf usually gets a more aggressive wash. I think these are better suited for bottom shelf.

You have to consider only two things really:

• Maybe, just maybe, something which was designed to kill the bacteria and remove the residue of things that came in contact with fresh or at most rotten food, is also totally effective at doing the same for things that came in contact with fecal mater and with toiled cleaning chemicals. Or maybe not.
• Do you for a toilet brush need the level of cleaniness achieved by a dishwasher, and if not are there other reasonably simple methods to achieve the required level of cleaniness for it?

In the absence of actual scientific studies that provided an answer for the "is a household dishwater entirelly effective for fecal mater and toilet cleaning chemicals contamination" with a high degree of certainty, the consideration on whether to do this or not boils down to: "Is a dishwasher level of cleaniness for a toilet brush worth the risk that the dishwasher might not deal with fecal mater or toilet cleaning chemical contamination correctly?"

Personally, I don't think it is worth the risk.

Ew... like, all alone, with nothing else in the dishwasher at all, and a rinse cycle in-between that and other things that you plan to eat off of?

Even then, it seems inefficient to me. Also, why would those even need to be cleaned - do you plan on eating off of those?!? They get "cleaned" well enough by going into the toilet - no need for more?

The water sprays from the bottom so I think it would not matter whether they are on the top rack

What the fuck is wrong with people.

how the fuck do you lack this much common sense? to put your fucking shitty toilet brush where you put your eating utensils?

While we're at it....do people really put their dildos and pocket pussies in the dishwasher?

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I mean... that's putting a lot of faith in the dishwasher to work properly every single time you do it. I don't know if I've got enough trust in the 1995 beige "landlord special" under my counter right now.

I understand the ick factor, but dishwashers are built to sanitize. Its going to get hotter than anything you'd wanna stick your hands in.

The biggest worry would be the bristles clogging the drain.

Now ask her how she cleans her sex toys.

Sounds gross but as long as it isn't with dishes and the dishwasher works right why would it be a problem? Soap is soap.