Buying glass containers was a gamechanger for me.
One swoop - and it's clean. No grease sticks, it washes even easier than ceramic plates.
Plastic is a terrible container material for greasy foods.
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And then they fall and shatter
Mine typically outlast the little snap tabs on their plastic lids.
Was my concern at first, but it just didn't happen to me in my time using it, and glass looks sturdy and thick enough to survive it anyway. Didn't test tho.
End the microplastic pollution, use glass or metal
My wife is starting to get really irritated with me as I begin my recycled jar collection.
The problem I foresee is that most of my old salsa jar lids will eventually rust and I'm not sure what to replace them with.
Glass recycles, so you could recycle the jar and replace it
You could also use beeswax wraps, or a silicone sheet and a tie
If you need the sterility of a sealed jar, I imagine you'll just need to replace them over time
Glass recycles
Not as much as you might think. A lot of places have stopped recycling glass because it's hazardous and there are huge backlogs of recycled glass. Yes it recycles from a material science perspective, but from a logistics perspective there are issues.
Over here over 90% of glass put in the recycling is recycled into new glass bottles/jars. The rest of the glass goes into making roads
You guys having problems recycling glass?
I struggle to comprehend that the dangers of broken glass haven't been overcome everywhere
You're lucky, my area stopped recycling glass years ago. Like I said, there's a huge backlog which makes processing less attractive. Also most recycling seems to be single stream (all recyclables go in one bin and get sorted at the facility), and broken glass contaminates the other recyclables which is dangerous to human sorters and is abrasive to machines.
I've seen a couple pilot programs pulverizing glass for concrete, but as with lots of recycling (looking at you plastic) in most places it's not as simple as "Just recycle it". Again, more a logistics issue than a material one.
I think it may be an issue in your area, also, where do you live? That's such a bad way of recycling...
Single stream is really common in the US
Oh USA, that explains it
Yeah. Trying to fix it, but that takes time
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You replace them new lids. Where I live loose jar lids are sold in packs in practically every supermarket. Really not difficult to find at all.
For Mason jars that is fine. My issue is with my Mrs Renfro salsa jars I've collected, they are not a standard Mason jar size lid
Where I live, you can just go into a market and find jar lids of any diameter. It's really useful
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From where I’m from plastic was kind of luxury until 90’s and that’s one of very few things from that country that would be great to bring back.
Inatead of cellophane bags there were netting bags or paper ones, bottles were all glass that got collected, sent back to factories to be washed and refillled. If one got their hands on plastic bag or bottle, probably somehow smuggled from the West - it was a goddamn status symbol from then on, and you don’t throw your status symbol away. 🌝
That's a very different perspective! Eastern Europe?
Yup. And yeah - it’s not like USSR didn’t have plastic - it simply wasn’t used for bags and bottles.
Plastic is oil-based. It repels water and bonds with oil. Soap does also bond with oil but you're fighting a much more uphill battle with plastic than with, say, glass or metal. Even with other concerns about plastic aside, if this bothers you, start looking for glass.
Either your dish soap sucks ass, or your technique does if washing doesn't get rid of grease and oil the first time.
Everytime i still feel the oil on the container, i'll just wash my sponge and squeeze some a fresh new dish soap and wash with it. Usually clean afterward, it's almost always the grease-soaked sponge.
It's either that, or not rinsing the dirty dishes with tap water before starting the soap-cleaning procedure. Salt, in particular, totally wrecks the cleaning power of the soap. There's an entire science around this, actually.
I find that it's more effective to put detergent on the dish, scrub with wet sponge, rinse. That keeps the detergent at high concentration at the surface, where the action happens. Detergent on the sponge, on the other hand, tends to migrate away towards the center of the sponge.
I switched from soaping the sponge to soaping the dish like 10 years ago and never looked back.
In this scenario I would add some dishwasher powder to some hot water and leave it for a while, the enzymes digest the fats and can be much more effective in some circumstances
Have you considered it is not the dish but perhaps your greasy sausage fingers?
Food for thought.
Mmm greasy sausage finger
Should get glass or metal containers (ore sometimes even ceramic) if you can afford it or if you can sneak them into your bag/inner coat pocket.
I bought some when I could afford it ~five years ago and they're still like new.
...You have to take out the sealing band and wash it separately from the lid. So many containers are ruined because people don't take out the seals and the grow mouldy. ;-;
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Pro tip: use an actual soap bar, the one you wash your hands with. Works way better for oils, and particularly specifically on plastic.
Where I am, there are also soap bars for household tasks, with a shitload of acid in them. Would probably clean oil even better
I would expect them to have a shitload of alkalines in them, not acid... Acids dont do much to fat, and bar soap is alkaline...
I started thinking that surely you're right, remembering that alkaline bile helps digest lipids. But, hard soap does in fact contain over 70% fatty acids while ultimately somehow being alkaline.
And regular soap is also a salt of a fatty acid, just with more additives. Perhaps the 'salt' part is where the alkalinity comes in, but I'm not good at chemistry.
Oil plus alkali = soap.
The oil/lipid that is included in the soap itself is a fatty acid. But the actual cleaning action comes from the alkaline reaction with oils (including the oils you're trying to clean off).
All of this is also separate from the general point that dishwashing detergents tend not to be soaps at all.
That's when it becomes a problem for the dishwasher.
Dawn directly on sponge, I never have this problem.
You mean leave it out where the Sun’s first light will catch it?
Exactly
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