Why can I taste soap in my food?

Rambosmum

I'm assuming this predates your pregnancy?

kerri_gt

Is it all meals or certain meals at home? Just wondering if there's a particular ingredient common to soapy meals that may have become contaminated in the grocery shop? The fact you're pregnant may mean you're picking up on the taste more or simply more sensitive to the taste than your OH. also, could it be your chopping boards? Just a thought that soapy residue might cling to the chop marks and might be picking up the flavour from there.

coolcait

kerri_gt wrote: »

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also, could it be your chopping boards? Just a thought that soapy residue might cling to the chop marks and might be picking up the flavour from there.

That's an interesting thought.


We're encouraged to use different chopping boards for different foodstuffs, to avoid cross-contamination.


It might just be a marketing ploy. But it might mean that chopping boards harbour all sorts of residues - including soap.

Celia101

Fairy platinum are the best dishwasher tablets around so ignore the people trying to pin it on those. If anything it would be using cheap and nasty tablets that would cause the taste such as the low budget Aldi or poundland products. I recommend tesco own brand as recommended by the good house keeping institute.

PasturesNew

hieveryone wrote: »

The thought of washing dishes - full stop - is enough to make me just put up with the soap taste

One 'compromise' on this might be to use the dishwasher and then to "test" the theory by hand washing the clean stuff. It'll be extra work, but as you're washing clean things it's not going to be difficult to achieve.

tizerbelle

hieveryone wrote: »

I will give this a try too - OH is very 'rule focussed' - and the dishwasher has a sticker saying only to use Fairy tabs, so this might take a bit of getting around

Peel the sticker off!

krlyr

Celia101 wrote: »

Fairy platinum are the best dishwasher tablets around so ignore the people trying to pin it on those. If anything it would be using cheap and nasty tablets that would cause the taste such as the low budget Aldi or poundland products. I recommend tesco own brand as recommended by the good house keeping institute.

No one's debating the quality of the tablets, it might be because they are so good that they leave a funny taste - i.e. much more detergent in them than cheaper brands, so leaves some residue.


I know it must be frustrating OP..we had a similar issue with tea tasting funny for a while, I assumed it was the kettle but sometimes it would be OK so wasn't sure if it was the water. We were filling up jugs from other houses, boiling water in pans, etc. to narrow it down :rotfl: Thankfully a thing of the past with the new kitchen, so whether it was the tap, the kettle, the mugs, who knows!

CRANKY40

I found that I couldn't use the lemon tablets. If you wash a plastic beaker in the dishwasher then remove it and sniff it smells clean. get the same beaker out to use a couple of hours later and it smells really strongly of detergent. The only way round it was to use the "plain" ones, not the lemon. The manufacturer didn't make a difference, they just couldn't be lemon.

Jennifer_Jane

Just nosily reading this (I don't have a dishwasher!), but are you buying your Fairy tablets from one of the cheaper places? Just wondering if they are genuine Fairy tablets or counterfeit. It could happen.

If nothing else works, I would contact the marketing people at Unilever or P&G (can't remember who makes them), to see what they have to say.

Later: just looked at Amazon reviews (looking at the poorest):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B005GTEHDQ/ref=acr_search_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

SnooksNJ

hieveryone wrote: »

This has been going on with me for ages and I can't seem to find a definitive answer.

When I'm eating my dinner, I can taste soap. I have tried extra rinse cycle in dishwasher, washing silicone utensils in the sink only etc etc, but it still happens.

This hasn't just happened in this house, it also happened in my previous house. Our dishwasher is regularly cleaned including filter and arms etc.

I don't taste it when I go to my MIL's house, and she uses her dishwasher too, so what am I doing wrong?

Do you cook with Cilantro(Coriander to my UK friends) because with some people it tastes like soap.