The best way to clean a keyboard is… the DISHWASHER?

So you've crumbed up your keyboard, but who has time to remove all the keys and clean it by hand? Can you just stick it in the dishwasher? Today: we find out.

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Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[LinusTechTips]

Future Colin here - most of the boards that we did this test with died within a year. They **did** work for a time, but most had a key or two stop responding properly after ~9-12 months of daily use. So, take this video with an enormous grain of salt, and instead consider getting a mesh bag for keycaps + removing your plastics to wash your keeb without putting the printed circuit board in the dishwasher! -CW

[metanoia.CHANGE_OF_MIND]

Instructions Unclear
Dishwasher has now RGB lighting

[burrytellam]

This is exactly what YouTube was made for: people like Linus to carry out real world tests so we don't have to. Love it.

[dan_trpdr]

Was this just a way for Linus to write off his new dishwasher as a business expense?

[LyricWulf]

Did you know, you can put dishes in your keyboardwasher.

[stilllife]

"A fast way to clean your keyboard."

"We waited a week for the keyboards to dry."

"Fast."

[dumpsterdawg]

GPU in oven, keyboards in dishwasher....up next "Hard drives in microwave"

[shadymaint]

My father in law worked at a particle accelerator facility. He was giving me a tour of the electronics lab. They had a dishwasher sitting in the middle of the lab. I asked one of the techs what it was for. He said they used it to clean circuit boards. Thier was a special detergent they used in it. Some of the boards they serviced were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[jameswindle]

"A quicker way to clean your keyboard" ... Takes a week to dry...

[Gamingwithgleez]

This is so much more in depth than I could have ever imagined when I clicked the video lol

[Max-nigw]

I can’t wait until keyboards are advertised as dishwasher friendly

[some_other_guy]

"it's fine, I licensed it."


boss

[shmockette]

You should have overclocked the dishwasher.

[Fjrn]

I tryed this with my gaming laptop is now very clean thanks you Linus

[somedaygamin]

“Can I sing this song”
“That’s fine, I licensed it”
This is what true power looks like

[magic_cfw]

Kids in background: Dad's doing something weird again.

[TaranVH]

The "golden sample" keyboard was from me. I found it outside a going-out-of-business thrift store in Squamish, BC, under a "FREE!" sign. I grabbed it (carefully) knowing it'd be perfect for this upcoming video.

[jakobfindlay]

"that's fine I licensed it" best editor's note ever xD

[dadmybest_edc]

Linus: wait a week to dry

Me with 1 keyboard: I'm out

[stevep]

The Saitek keyboard Linus asked, "Why does this have an ethernet port on it?"

That port went to a proprietary numpad/gamepad that came with that model. I know this because I had one back in the WinXP days.