Hunting Knife

Can you clean a hunting knife in the dishwasher?

I have a Gerber Steadfast hunting knife that I recently used to cut up a deer. The guy I worked with has the same knife and suggested to simply put it in the dishwasher and that will clean it. Is this bad to do to a hunting knife? Thanks for your suggestions.

Don’t do it.

A little story here. I had a very nice “vintage” ice cream scoop from the early 1900s. It had a vulcanized rubber handle on it. My family used it for decades, as it came from my grandfather’s store, where he used to scoop and sell ice cream floats and whatnot. Well, as my father got older, I hired a caregiver/nurse to stay with him. It was cheaper than a nursing home and I wanted to keep him in his old house. Sure enough, the caregiver decides to wash everything in the diswasher. The rubber handle on the antique ice cream scoop couldn’t handle the high water temperatures of the dishwasher and…well, it failed. So much for family keepsakes. We had that thing for a hundred years and it looked just fine..until someone decided to take a shortcut and use the dishwasher.

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