Luckily I buy cheap enough jeans that I don't have to worry about washing the "coolness" out of them!

Seriously, does freezing kill bacteria at all? I thought it only slowed down bacterial growth. I wouldn't try this anyway, since they still wouldn't actually be clean afterward (it's dirt I'd be concerned about, not bacteria, and I'd imagine they'd still still have wrinkles/creases from sitting and such) but I'm curious as to whether freezer temperatures really kill bacteria.

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Even when plastic is supposed to be microwave safe and looks pretty sturdy, I hate microwaving it. Sooner or later it always gets this sort of microwave disease ring of roughed-up plastic on the inside. I've been mostly using pyrex bowls in the microwave for the past year or so since I got tired of replacing plastic and being vaguely skeeved out by the thought of what might be leaching into my food once the plastic starts to get damaged.
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Once while making a pot of rice, I forgot to turn it down once it came to a boil. I gave it a stir, put the lid on it, and went about my business. A few minutes before it should have been done I noticed the stench. It was absolutely vile. The bottom quarter inch of the burnt mess looked like charcoal. Took me a week to get that pan clean, scrubbing it a few minutes at a time. I bought a rice cooker after that.