Dishwasher discolouration

poodledoodledoo

I have recently had a new fitted kitchen installed in my house which has an integrated dishwasher. Now as much as I love it, I am confused as to why, once every couple of weeks or so, everything I put in the dishwasher is coming out orange when the cycle has finished. I am not putting anything orange in the thing so why does this happen? Is it the colour from tomato based sauces? If so, why doesn't it happen every time?

Or am I doing something wrong that is wrecking my nice new appliance?

Help please!

(Oh, and if anyone knows how to get rid of the orange staining on the plastic dishwasher racks, I'd be very grateful for the advice!)

kwatt

We've had this a few times and it is generally tomato based or red dyed food that causes it. Once things are stained, like the plastics in the DW, there's no way back I'm afraid bar replacing them.

Expensive machines though seem to use some sort of plastics that seem extremely resistant to this sort of staining. The Smeg I used to have, the F&P one I had on test and is the ISE10 one I have on test presently are all fine. Yet Zanussi, Hotpoint, Indesit and a host of others seem to have this issue.

K.

poodledoodledoo

Phew...I thought it was something I was doing.

I think I'll just soak everything well before I load it in the future to minimise the problem.

Thanks!