Man-Proof, Kid-Proof, AND Easy to Clean

I wanted to share my latest 'discovery' about Longaberger pottery.  Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a scientist by training and that is how I approach life....lots of questions and a lot of skepticism, testing, and analysis.  Well you can be sure that I have put the Longaberger pottery through the wringer by now.  My latest experiment was to test how easily my 9"x13" baking dish came clean in the dishwasher WITHOUT washing it ahead of time.  I made lasagna in it, scraped off the stuck on noodles, put it at the front of the lower rack and....it came out spotless.  I made chicken enchilada casserole, burnt the cheese on the edges, scraped off the bits of tortilla still stuck on the bottom, put it in the dishwasher, and .....voila! it came out spotless again.   My husband made lasagna, burnt the sauce all over the edges, put it in the dishwasher just like that, and ....it came out spotless!  Boy! I tell ya, this would have saved me so many "discussions" with my husband about how he needs to scrape the dishes off better before he puts them in the dishwasher and then me having to wash them by hand again after they had already been through the dishwasher.   Not to mention that the dishes no longer get chipped around the edges even though loading the dishwasher seems to be a contact sport for "some people I know". :-)