Why Do My Covers Come Out Orange/Brown???

[redsoxgirl]

I'm probably not supposed to put them in the dishwasher am I??

Every time I was the covers of the Prep Bowls, Trifle bowl and the entire Chopper, everything that was white comes out with this weird orange-ish/brwn film on it and I have to wash it all by hand. It only happens to my stuff, not my mom's (we live with her while we're saving for a house).

What's up with this???

 

[jrstephens]

I don't know the reason for your problem but I have started using a dishwashing liquid that has vinegar in it for getting things whiter. I don't know if that would help you or not.

Do you leave food on your dishes? Like anything tomato based on them?

 

[redsoxgirl]

I have started using a dishwashing liquid that has vinegar in it for getting things whiter.

Do you leave food on your dishes? Like anything tomato based on them?

Is it one you can just buy off a shelf or something special?

No - we're pretty good with cleaning stuff off dishes. I think our dishwasher just hates me

 

[Lisa/ChefBear]

I didn't think the lids for the Prep Bowls or the Trifle Bowl were to go in dishwasher. I'd be afraid mine would melt them or at least shrink them or warp them.

My hard water turns things funny colors, maybe your mom's water is hard??
Sorry not to really help with an answer.

Lisa

 

[chefann]

The Prep Bowl lids are not DW safe, but the Trifle Bowl lid is. That is so weird that it doesn't happen to your mom's stuff, just yours.

Cascade makes a plastic booster that is great for taking stains and odors out of plastic, but I can't see using it every time you wash. Especially because you need to run a complete DW cycle of just plastics.

 

[janetupnorth]

The lids are absorbing something else in the load. You probably had spaghetti or a tomato-based sauce on something else in that load or a prior that didn't come out - been there, done that.Use the tips above and watch what you put your plastics in with...

 

[janetupnorth]

...and for water...Excess copper turns things blue...
Excess iron turns things brown...

 

[jrstephens]

Is it one you can just buy off a shelf or something special?

I just bought it off the shelf withthe other liquids. It is Palmolive I think. It is really cheap. I was going through trying different ones to see which one worked better with me "hard water" and found this one. It works better for me than the expensive ones.

As for the lids melting in the dishwasher, I turn my heated dry off and then I don't have to worry about melting anything. So far, that has worked for me.

 

[wadesgirl]

I thought someone mentioned that they restyled the lids for the prep bowls to be dishwasher safe? Sort of how they changed the lids for the stainless bowls but didn't promote it as being restyled?

 

[kspry]

I put my lids on the top rack and use air dry (no heat) so they won't melt.

 

[friday]

I was thinking water. I used to work in a place where you never ever laundered your whites in town. You took them (I am not kidding) to the next town and did them at the laundrymat. Something about iodine added to the water turned all the whites a little orangey browny.

 

[ChefNic]

A couple years ago I used Cascade Orange...it turned my Mix N Scraper orange!
Are you using that dish detergent?
Home office told me to make a paste with dry dish detergent to scrub it clean...it didn't work for me...I got a new Mix N Scraper.

...and I never use Cascade Orange ever again!