Remembered to take a pic of the layout halfway through:

Nice and toasty:

Nice and toasty?? Oh was it to dry them up well after washing?

This is chill to do once in a while! I like it.

Pre clean full layout reference: (yes I eat at my desk)

Great keyboard! I have broken my esc key twice now though.

Yes, the oven has a drying option, it's normally used for drying herbs and stuff but works well to get rid of the excess moisture after washing as well.

Is there a reason the Q and V are at the end?

This is a crime against... well yourself I guess. Guard! Seize them!

They don't use those keys as often so it makes more sense ergonomically to put them at the end.

Wait what does baking/dehydrating them do? I cleaned mine a month ago but didn't know that was some kind of step.

I really need to clean mine soon....

I am not this organized; instead I lift off a few keys randomly now and then and brush off the gunk.

I keep missing the number pad

Valve makes oven racks?

My key cap cleaning process is an ultrasonic cleaner with a little dish soap, then if I want to speed up the drying process they get thrown in a dehydrator at 140° F (60° C). Otherwise air drying on a towel is perfectly fine if time isn't an issue.

edit: removed redundant phrase

I picked up a nice mechanical keyboard at the goodwill. Two keys were sticky. I kept meaning to clean them, but typing on them and pulling up on the key to unstick it a few hundred times seems to have fixed the problem.

Nice. I need to clean both of my daily drivers. The one at home i haven't cleaned in a few months. The white keys hide nothing. My work one has been almost two years. I'm good about dusting it, but I need to thoroughly clean it like this.

Are you me from the future? I just opened Lemmy for the day after finally cleaning mine