Yep the dishwasher trick is used all the time. Top shelf, keys pointing downwards, low heat (eco or quick wash), very little detergent and make sure the cables are secured otherwise the spinning washer blade or heat elements will cause big problems!!

Just rinse under a tap once finished (no pun intended) and leave to dry upsidedown for a few days. DO NOT PUT FANCY LCD/WIRELESS KEYBOARDS IN THERE THOUGH .......

Yesterday, I had some French fries and a sandwich with a beer front of my computer.
Mouse and keyboard managed to stay fairly clean. Except that shinny look on some parts due to the butter abd all...
I don't think there was some tough viruses in the food and on the keyboard. But yet don't eat and type and more than that don't eat front of your computer !

Try turning your keyboard upside down giving it a good shake and a top on the back, see how many bits come out, no baby wipe i know of would get rid of that so a good wash would do the world of good.

Ah, sweet Sylvie, my love, I must share with you that as an industrial controls engineer, I've dealt with not only keyboards and mice that could handle high pressure steam, strong acids, and strong caustics, but displays and entire systems. So putting keyboards and mice in a dishwasher is actually fairly benign. It's all in the materials and the design. Costs like the dickins though.

MRSA did not come about because of being overly clean, it came about because of the use of antibiotics in patients,
or rather incompetent and ignorant usage of the above.

it's an evolutionary process that gave us MRSA, but we could have reduced the impact if people had taken full courses and had doctors willing to take more time to investigate

(think about it, it's an environmental pressure that led to the development of resistance, survival of the immune versus sensitive)

I've restored a dead Mac to life by running its main logic board through the dishwasher & a few keyboards too. It was the death of an old MS Natural one, though. But yes, mostly, they can take it.

I wouldn't like to try /using/ one while immersed, though!

People do realise that MRSA came about precisely because of our over obession with cleanliness?

All that 99.9% percent of bacteria does is help prepare you for fighting off the other 0.1%, your keyboard may be grubby but it's probably doing you some good. :)

I mean... ebola... if you're getting that from your keyboard you've probably got a lot more to worry about given that it's about 80% fatal.

Haven't techs been putting keyboards and mice in dishwashers for years?

Not tried it myself (haven't got a dish washer) but my mum did put my old Gameboy Tetris cartridge through a 40 degree wash (none of this green 15 degrees crap) and it came out fine (label was a bit faded but it was clean) and my other half has put a couple of my SD cards and USB sticks through the wash before (she blames me for not clearing my pockets). They both survived, data intact.

Rob