I have porcelain and I love it. I keep up with it by wiping my rangetop down every night after I do the clean up of the kitchen after dinner. I would choose porcelain again. Nancy

dadoes, sorry, I guess I am very upset that now that I have spent hours and the last few months cleaning all my venting going up into the attic up to the roof, my dryer is working worse than ever and took 2 hours and 40 minutes to dry one light weight bath towel, one hand towel and one small wash cloth. It is took 6 hours to dry half a load that had nothing heavy in it the other day. The discoloring of brown and now blue is getting worse. I never had discoloring until my 5 year extended warranty ran out and I am very upset since I spent a lot of money for this Duet front load washer and dryer set with the internal heater on the washer 5.25 years ago. My washer just started two days ago to not spin as fast either so that is also not working so well. I had to use the drain and spin feature to get more water out of my sheets before putting them in the dryer and that took 4 hours to dry a few sheets. So plastic is actually not so bad after all? I was always told that a stainless steel drum will be better like it is with a dishwasher since my stainless steel tub definitely is working better on my Kitchenaid dishwasher than that always stained (had to use the Tang method once month to get out stains) Whirlpool very old noisy dishwasher. I bought the Whirlpool Duet set since they were highly recommended by Consumers Guide and my other whirlpool appliances lasted so long but it always took a long time to dry and now it is not working. Could my venting problem have added to a problem? What could now be wrong. In my area, service calls cost $125 to say hello before the clock starts to tick and then their are the parts.

I buy the labels that look like Sharlene's from Paw Paw Everlast Label company in Michigan. The labels are actually zinc, and they last quite well with either a paint marker from an art store or the mechanical pencil marker they sell with the labels. It's kind of like a laundry pencil and it stands up to weather pretty well. I'm too lazy to spend the time making labels for 1000 roses with the label maker, as gorgeous and professional as those labels look. I need something I can whip together quickly when roses arrive. The posts will eventually start to deteriorate a bit after 6-8 years and sometimes they need the writing reinforced, but they recover pretty well from being stepped on a lot (ask me how I know - smile). The website is https://everlastlabel.com/ and they get a top 5 rating from Dave's Garden Watchdog website. I love their service and shipping is free and fast. I usually order 500 labels at a time in the standing kind that Sharlene showed, which is style E (they call these rose style labels - smile). They have a ton of other styles, including hang tags if you prefer those. The price for 100 labels is $43.50, with free shipping. The new rounded corners are nice on the face plates since you're less likely to scratch your leg on them as you're avoiding the rose canes themselves. You put the plates on the stems yourself, but that's an easy task. Cynthia

I can't find a dishwasher without bitumen or mastic in it. If anyone knows of one, I'd like to know the company and model. I just had a Bosch dishwasher removed from out house yesterday that we only had for one week because of fumes from the bitumen. It was making us feel sick! I have searched for another brand/model, but from what I can tell, they all use bitumen and/or mastic. The stainless steel tub models use the most. I don't want to go to a plastic tub due to some of the concerns mentioned in this conversation, but what a dilemma! We relied on our old DW a lot and sure are missing it now!