Can't remove grease from plastic containers

Primrose

I freeze a lot of soup/chicken stock, etc. in freezer-proof plastic containers (as well as in plastic bags) and often find that after I've decanted the contents from the containers and washed them thoroughly, I still seem to have a slightly oily residue on the plastic which I often can't get rid of. Does anybody else have this problem and is there any way of removing it?

thriftmonster

I put the bases - but not the lids- through the DW as I find that handwashing does leave them greasy. Otherwise try a dab of neat washing up liquid on a cloth and rub them all over with this and then rinse under a running tap.

HTH

foreversomeday

I find this as well and it drives me mad. Since we moved somewhere with a dishwasher I always put them through there as it does work, but before I used to dry them thoroughly with kitchen roll as soon as they were washed rather than leaving them to dry as the oily residue seems to cling to the plastic but be loosened by the water - drying them with the absorbent paper removed it, and I imagine the high pressure spraying in a dishwasher would possibly have the same effect.

It's not the most moneysaving idea unfortunately but I did find it worked better than drying them with a tea towel or anything else (not thin enough to get under the rim and not absorbent enough to take the grease.)

skintchick

I don;t have a DW and I solve this by putting neat washing up liquid onto the plastic, rubbing it round, then washing as normal. It really cuts through the grease. Make sure you use very hot water as well. If you can put bare hands in it, it isn;t hot enough!

Penelope_Penguin

Hi there :beer: If you can't wash the grease off in hot soapy water, then it's coming from the plastic, not from what's been in the container :eek:

Penny. x

embb

A bit of neat washing-up liquid on a scourer usually does the trick.