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Agreed. I haven’t microwaved food in plastic for 20+ years. It just always seemed gross. My biggest beef with plastic containers is that once washed with cheap
by avidphantasm 3y ago
Agreed. I haven’t microwaved food in plastic for 20+ years. It just always seemed gross. My biggest beef with plastic containers is that once washed with cheap dish soap (e.g. Dawn) the plastic container and any food stored in it always an forever smell and taste like the fragrance in the soap. I don’t find this to be a problem when using 7th Generation dish soap, which I consider to be far superior.
- Clamchop 3y agoInteresting, I view Dawn as name-brand, maybe premium product and thought it was well-regarded, though maybe that's all those advertisements with oil-soaked animals getting cleaned up doing a number on me. Never had a complaint or noticed a residual odor, though.
- renox 3y agoMicrowaved plastic is obviously something to avoid I agree but what I would like to know is what happens on plastic plates in washing machine?
- avidphantasm 3y agoGood question. The only plastic dishes we have are the lids to our glass leftover containers. I always wash these by hand as it seems to me that the extreme heat of the dishwasher degrades the plastic (and probably causes god knows what to leach out of the plastic) and causes the lids to crack (kind of like plastic left out in UV light) and to fail seemingly sooner than they otherwise would.
- gumby 3y agoWell they will shed tons of microplastics and the placticisers will gradually leach out due to heat and the harsh dishwasher soap. That eventually destroys your plastic stuff, but the stuff shed goes down the drain and becomes someone else's problem (except you'll get some back when you eat fish, for example). The same thing happens with your clothes, which these days include a lot of plastic fabric, buttons, etc.
- yourusername 3y ago>I don’t find this to be a problem when using 7th Generation dish soap, which I consider to be far superior. I feel i'm about to fall into a rabit hole where i read way too much about dish soap. Is this a joke or is there really such a thing as 7th generation dish soap?
- gumby 3y agoIt's a brand name.
- sokoloff 3y agoIt’s just a brand name. It’s not 7th generation in the sense of a 7th gen fighter aircraft.
- avidphantasm 3y ago7th generation dish soaps use a polyvalent saponification structure that form nano colloids, which result in the formation of trans-Newtonian fluids…
- shepherdjerred 3y agoI was also super excited to read the Wikipedia page for the generations of dish soap, but like the others have said, it's just a brand :/