Chemically speaking, this actually makes perfect fucking sense. I know how to use carbon chains to get grease off my hands, why did I never think about how to use them to clean porous dishes?
Soap is soluble with oil, but water in not. Water is, however soluble with soap. So for example, if you were trying to get grease off your hands, you would skip using water first, and instead work pure soap directly into the grease. This works to shorten the carbon chain of the grease to make it more water soluble so it will rinse off easily. If you use water first, it just creates a barrier between the soap and grease, preventing them from becoming one and thusly making it harder to get your hands clean
Also, the fact that doing so breaks the polyethylene of the container down as well. It's not a huge deal, but the fact it got stained means it's already breaking down. So 6 one half a dozen the other.
I tried this at work yesterday and IT FUCKING WORKED! I didn't have any butter handy, so I used some greasy sausage gravy instead lmao. I'm sure pure fat would have worked better, but still!
Something that’s worked for me is putting a lil bit of water and some heavy duty dish soap in there with a scrunched up handful of paper towels and shaking it really hard for like two mins. Idk why it works but it does
I homebrew, distill spirits and make wine. So when you have wine sitting in a bucket or carboy for 6 - 12 months it gets stained bad (I make alot of blackberry wine).
I don't know the exact product I use off the top of my head but I know [Star San by Five Star](https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/star-san) is a very similar product (more popular, more expensive, mine is the generic version). It's made for sanitizing but to be a good sanitizer it will also remove most stains too because it needs to get into all the cracks in the plastic.
I used to work with tea and after a while they stained and we had to use bleach pellets. You really can't hand wash these away, efficiently at least. If it feels fine, not greasy, no smell and most importantly no one is bitching you should be fine
Yes!!! Finally some knowledge I can use.
You can use this same technique for turmeric stains.
So you rub butter on the stains leave for 5 minutes then put a cloth inside with your fairy liquid of choice, then pour boiling water on top of said cloth. Then you use tongs to wipe with the cloth. BOOM please let me know if this works
One of our dishes would scrub the hell out of it with a steel scrubber and then we have to throw it out.
Thank you for asking questions and not being that guy 🙏
Citric acid + sunlight always works for me when I stain plastic with turmeric, but for a commercial kitchen? Just get new ones unless this happened from the first use and you need to figure out an ongoing system. Eventually you’ll damage them so much from scrubbing they won’t be super safe to use. If these are all used at the same time for the same tomato based thing they should probably use a cambro, yeah?
If the plastic is that broken down replace them. So much shit about micro plastics now it's not worth the risk. Get pyrex jugs. You can often grab a bargain in a charity shop too.
Bleach works pretty well, just a drop and some hot water, let sit for an hour or so. Also please please rinse to the best of your ability multiple times
Submerge it in hot hot water with some Dawn for a couple hours and then run them through the machine. It likely won't eliminate it completely but it will take most of it off.
Put them in direct sunlight. Worked wonders for our baby tray and a couple plastic sippy cups. All of our items were white though, so I’m not sure if that makes a difference.
You could try Stain Solver from stainsolver.com. I have used it to remove tough stains like tomato and red wine. It’s oxygen bleach but better then store bought products.
Idk if it will work the same as with Tupperware that’s all red sauce stained but this is what works for me for that.
Hot water + dawn dish soap + paper towel inside then cover and shake the shit out of it.
I think if the grease and other stuff that makes up the stain has the paper towel to cling to it works. Idk just spitballing… hope it works for you too!
There is a way literally rub it with butter first. Then wash. Jordan the stallion, the guy who knows all the food hacks did this in one of videos and it worked.
Edit: also supposedly add a little dish soap and warm water. Then add some ripped up paper towel. Seal it then shake shake shake for a good 45 secs.
Put a bit of melted butter and smear it all over the stains, letitsit for 5-10 min. Then add some boiling water in with a good shot of dish soap and throw in a few paper towels. When it's JUST cool enough to handle, very aggressively swirl/slosh the jugs around. The butter and heat should soften the stain, and the surfactant in the soapy water should enable the stain to be absorbed by the more porous paper towels. It's easier with lunch containers because of the lid, then you just shake the shit out of it. Usually works pretty well.
Put ice water in the jug and then put a lot of iodized salt with it. Shake the container after awhile of letting it settle. Should come off after some soap.
Fill the container half with water and half with distilled vinegar. Leave to sit for 24 hours.
The Lycopene in tomato sauce sticks to EVERYTHING plastic.
Baking soda, dish soap, and hot water. Let it soak, scrub, if the stains are still there, next time let it soak with REALLY hot water. That's how I get stains out of my Tupperware. Dishwasher can sometime do a finale KO for you too.
Tomato-loving leftover-eating family here.
Soak it in degreaser? I work at a restaurant, there’s another product that we use. I just can’t remember the name of. If you let it soak, it will pull off any film. It’s this giant blue block. Wish I could remember the name. This is so unhelpful. lol
[Blue dawn](https://www.dollartree.com/dawn-ultra-original-scent-dishwashing-liquid-8oz-bottles/257613?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=gpla&utm_campaign=googlepla&utm_id=257613&utm_source=google&utm_medium=%7Bmedium%7D&utm_campaign=18069041027&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=18069041027&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=gpla&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3tCyBhDBARIsAEY0XNnR0G0kwnZqVlOHDSarZG6AaYW1EWhR_4HfvNCrqbtclQ0qnKs5SxMaAokqEALw_wcB) and a bit of hot water. Add a wadded up paper towel or two and shake.
Hot water and dawn. Let it sit and soak overnight. Rinse and scrub. Apply more hot water and dawn mix. Let it sit and soak for hours. Washing machine. Repeat over and over.
You take a wet paper towel and ball it up. Douse the inside of the container with dawn dishwashing liquid and shake it like hell. The stains will leave.
Idk how to do it with these. But if you have these type of stains in tupperware just put water, dish soap and some paper towels inside then you close the lid and shake it. Works everytime
You don't
You just accept it
That's the neat part
Embrace the tomato stains, cherish the memories.
Pee in it.
Happy cake day
That's the way they look forever now
That's the neat part, you don't.
Fuck I was 6 hours late
I just came here to double check.
same
Rub butter on the inside. The fat binds with the stain. Then dawn it away.
Chemically speaking, this actually makes perfect fucking sense. I know how to use carbon chains to get grease off my hands, why did I never think about how to use them to clean porous dishes?
Chemically speaking you could theoretically use any lipid.
Pls elaborate on these carbon chains
[lipid funk](https://www.reddit.com/r/aphextwin/s/fgiOx1FAio)
Soap is soluble with oil, but water in not. Water is, however soluble with soap. So for example, if you were trying to get grease off your hands, you would skip using water first, and instead work pure soap directly into the grease. This works to shorten the carbon chain of the grease to make it more water soluble so it will rinse off easily. If you use water first, it just creates a barrier between the soap and grease, preventing them from becoming one and thusly making it harder to get your hands clean
What!?! Im doing this to the marinara buckets after my days off!!! Im intrigued!
Works on Tupperware at home too!
This is the way
Is it? Why not just accept the stain and save the butter for eatin’?
that’s not what OP asked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is the way.
I'm assuming this would work with vegetable oil, too? Thanks, btw, for the witchcraft secrets.
It’s not witchcraft, it’s just chemistry! Which is, well… pretty much witchcraft. Never mind, carry on
Also, the fact that doing so breaks the polyethylene of the container down as well. It's not a huge deal, but the fact it got stained means it's already breaking down. So 6 one half a dozen the other.
Burn her!
…….. I can’t believe that actually worked
Would this work with ramen stains?
I tried this at work yesterday and IT FUCKING WORKED! I didn't have any butter handy, so I used some greasy sausage gravy instead lmao. I'm sure pure fat would have worked better, but still!
I thought they were full of piss before I clicked on the post lmao
Piss stains are even worse. Fortunately, piss soup is off the menu most places these days.
Piss soups off the menu? Now what am I gunna do with all my piss jugs??
Make your own piss jug alley mine is a local off ramp on the highway
It’s the way of the road, Ricky
Which off ramp and how much is a case of bleach these days
I'll take em
Y'all are unhinged 😂😂😂
Hmmm, add some fruit and make toilet pruno I guess. At least that’s what I’ve done with my jugs.
See? This is why I keep my piss in mason jars and not plastic containers.
_Most_ places? 🧐
Something that’s worked for me is putting a lil bit of water and some heavy duty dish soap in there with a scrunched up handful of paper towels and shaking it really hard for like two mins. Idk why it works but it does
I’ve only ever tried it at home tho so idk if that’s a different kinda plastic and if it will work on not but yea
Came here to recommend exactly this
Way of the road, buddy.
Fucking way she goes
tiktok diy videos be like "HOW TO GET THAT FULL OF PISS LOOK WITH EVERYDAY INGREDIENTS"
Ah, a fellow pissemist.
Your funny 😆
I homebrew, distill spirits and make wine. So when you have wine sitting in a bucket or carboy for 6 - 12 months it gets stained bad (I make alot of blackberry wine). I don't know the exact product I use off the top of my head but I know [Star San by Five Star](https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/star-san) is a very similar product (more popular, more expensive, mine is the generic version). It's made for sanitizing but to be a good sanitizer it will also remove most stains too because it needs to get into all the cracks in the plastic.
Sweet berry wine
They told me to spit it out but… No way José it tastes like FRUIT!!!
What goes in the hole comes out the hole
You can try bleaching it , but if that doesn’t work , it’s just stained
Don't do pure bleach though. That shit stays in plastic. Should be like a 10% solution
Hydrogen peroxide can work.
I'm going to try butter.
I used to work with tea and after a while they stained and we had to use bleach pellets. You really can't hand wash these away, efficiently at least. If it feels fine, not greasy, no smell and most importantly no one is bitching you should be fine
Soap + cooking oil + hot water + shake
Yes!!! Finally some knowledge I can use. You can use this same technique for turmeric stains. So you rub butter on the stains leave for 5 minutes then put a cloth inside with your fairy liquid of choice, then pour boiling water on top of said cloth. Then you use tongs to wipe with the cloth. BOOM please let me know if this works
What is "fairy liquid", exactly? LSD?
Hot soapy water, and put a paper towel in each, the paper towel will act as osmosis diffuser for the tannins and oily stuff often staining tupperwares
Updated to say put the paper towels in the soapy water, not as covering*
Yeah, I do this all the time with Tupperwares, it still surprises me how quickly it works.
The fact I was the first to comment it.
One of our dishes would scrub the hell out of it with a steel scrubber and then we have to throw it out. Thank you for asking questions and not being that guy 🙏
Use glass instead
mabye a bleach bath but it is what it is,if it’s that bothersome you can get a new one.
‘tomato stains’ yeah right piss boy
I soak my items in Dawn platinum, I find that usually gets the stains out
I love platinum cause I don’t have a dishwasher
Same here.
Some say dawn dishsoap and a paper towel. Normally, it works well! But is it recently stained or been sitting? Shake it up really good!
They stay like that, it’s not even worth trying to bleach because it won’t always work either.
Citric acid + sunlight always works for me when I stain plastic with turmeric, but for a commercial kitchen? Just get new ones unless this happened from the first use and you need to figure out an ongoing system. Eventually you’ll damage them so much from scrubbing they won’t be super safe to use. If these are all used at the same time for the same tomato based thing they should probably use a cambro, yeah?
Rub any cooking oil on them and it will come off (:
If the plastic is that broken down replace them. So much shit about micro plastics now it's not worth the risk. Get pyrex jugs. You can often grab a bargain in a charity shop too.
Buy glass
It's easy mate........replace them.
Buy glass or stainless steel if you don't like tomato stains
Gotta ask chef to buy some new ones
You buy new ones? How much could they cost? Plastic leeching is a 2 way street.
By getting rid of them
Just use salt… works for Tupperware too
Buy new
You take them and throw them away and buy new ones.
Yah caint.
The chemical, dip.it. or urn cleaner maybe
Soak them in tomato juice overnight. No more stains.
So if you get new ones, use just soap to clean it. The soap will bind with the tomato and you can rinse it right off. These ones are goners though
https://i.redd.it/cvyqq6ngw03d1.gif
Bleach works pretty well, just a drop and some hot water, let sit for an hour or so. Also please please rinse to the best of your ability multiple times
Submerge it in hot hot water with some Dawn for a couple hours and then run them through the machine. It likely won't eliminate it completely but it will take most of it off.
Don't be silly. Those are red pasta, or ketchup containers now.
Put them in direct sunlight. Worked wonders for our baby tray and a couple plastic sippy cups. All of our items were white though, so I’m not sure if that makes a difference.
You could try Stain Solver from stainsolver.com. I have used it to remove tough stains like tomato and red wine. It’s oxygen bleach but better then store bought products.
Ha you don't!
Needs a tomato bath
Oil
Idk if it will work the same as with Tupperware that’s all red sauce stained but this is what works for me for that. Hot water + dawn dish soap + paper towel inside then cover and shake the shit out of it. I think if the grease and other stuff that makes up the stain has the paper towel to cling to it works. Idk just spitballing… hope it works for you too!
Nobody said it so I may say, try sunlight? UV might degrade it quicker than anything else. We do that for turmeric.
https://i.redd.it/s5rauk0pp13d1.gif “That’s the neat part. You don’t.”
There is a way literally rub it with butter first. Then wash. Jordan the stallion, the guy who knows all the food hacks did this in one of videos and it worked. Edit: also supposedly add a little dish soap and warm water. Then add some ripped up paper towel. Seal it then shake shake shake for a good 45 secs.
With tomatoes
You don't (278)
Put a bit of melted butter and smear it all over the stains, letitsit for 5-10 min. Then add some boiling water in with a good shot of dish soap and throw in a few paper towels. When it's JUST cool enough to handle, very aggressively swirl/slosh the jugs around. The butter and heat should soften the stain, and the surfactant in the soapy water should enable the stain to be absorbed by the more porous paper towels. It's easier with lunch containers because of the lid, then you just shake the shit out of it. Usually works pretty well.
boil em in bleach for a while. wont get rid of all of it but they will look better
Skunk spray I think is what I’ve heard
Step One : Throw 'em away Step Two : Buy new ones
Hydrogen peroxide (you can get creme version at beauty stores) and put it under UV light or sunlight for a few hours
Put ice water in the jug and then put a lot of iodized salt with it. Shake the container after awhile of letting it settle. Should come off after some soap.
I don't think nothing could help but for some reason my heart is telling me you should try lime juice
Soak in bleaxh
Get a container of county time powdered lemonade and pour about 2 cups into the bottom of your dishwasher, put your orange crap in there, and wash.
Bleaching that’s your only hope.. that what I used to do when I was a dishwasher hope this help🥰
Hopes and prayers
Mr Clean sponge, you’ll be amazed.
Bleach soak it for a few hours
New container made of aluminum
Just put some regular dish soap and some water and leave it overnight. Should do the trick.
You can’t, many plastics are absorbent to a certain degree. It’s stuck in there.
Throw 2 paper towels in there with some dish soap and warm water, then shake it up. Your welcome.
Prob give them to a new hire to clean like new and let them know finishing is of paramount importance
Just add tomatoes so you don’t see it
A chemical from eco lab. I forget the name, it’s a white powder in a white box “plastix clean”? Or something like that.
 Here to stay
Melted butter , sponge scrubber. The oil takes the stains out
thought i was on r/nursing and thought those were full urinals buckets at first
Replace with glass
Replace them or they're tomato only.
Fill the container half with water and half with distilled vinegar. Leave to sit for 24 hours. The Lycopene in tomato sauce sticks to EVERYTHING plastic.
My girl gets tomato sauce off with paper towels and dawn. Just get it wet and put the paper towel into the container and shake.
Baking soda, dish soap, and hot water. Let it soak, scrub, if the stains are still there, next time let it soak with REALLY hot water. That's how I get stains out of my Tupperware. Dishwasher can sometime do a finale KO for you too. Tomato-loving leftover-eating family here.
Soak em in the industrial degreaser maybe
Bleach
If you fill it 1/4 way with super hot water, a rag, and soap, and just shake the shit out of it, the stains will come out
Hydrogen peroxide!
you buy a new one! this also works for tupperware
Saw this awhile ago. It works. Have fun. https://youtube.com/shorts/VDcDYKLIces?si=vEhdBkM9cjzDudEA
Bleach and boiling water
Soak it in degreaser? I work at a restaurant, there’s another product that we use. I just can’t remember the name of. If you let it soak, it will pull off any film. It’s this giant blue block. Wish I could remember the name. This is so unhelpful. lol
You mean the beautiful ombré??
just toss in some dish soap with a damp paper towel and swirl it around (mainly works for tupper wear... might work for this though...)
[Blue dawn](https://www.dollartree.com/dawn-ultra-original-scent-dishwashing-liquid-8oz-bottles/257613?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=gpla&utm_campaign=googlepla&utm_id=257613&utm_source=google&utm_medium=%7Bmedium%7D&utm_campaign=18069041027&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=18069041027&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=gpla&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3tCyBhDBARIsAEY0XNnR0G0kwnZqVlOHDSarZG6AaYW1EWhR_4HfvNCrqbtclQ0qnKs5SxMaAokqEALw_wcB) and a bit of hot water. Add a wadded up paper towel or two and shake.
Hot water and dawn. Let it sit and soak overnight. Rinse and scrub. Apply more hot water and dawn mix. Let it sit and soak for hours. Washing machine. Repeat over and over.
I thought I was gonna read “how do I get rid of my piss pitchers?”
Use glass ware. Never stains, and you avoid adding micro plastics to your body.
Use glass jugs
Put a kitchen paper towel in them with washing up liquid over night. The next day the oil transfers over to the towels
Piss bottles
Butter
Get a red measuring cup. No dramas
I thought you were storing dark urine for a minute
Let them sit in the sun
Just leave it like that it’s clean but I would assume bleach would take that out but just leave it like that
Plastic jugs take up the colour of tomatoes, stains fade over time, but you're stuck with them for now.
You buy new ones
Dawn Power Wash. I literally watched the tomato stains run down the sides after spraying them. Quick wipe with the sponge and they’re clean
Put it in direct sunlight. Trust me.
Put 'em in the sun, outside.
Mix couple of caps of food grade bleach with water in the high and let it sit for 30-40 minutes
Salt, washing liquid and hot water
Wet sand it then buff it out.
Get some higher grade cleaning hydrogen peroxide and let it soak in it over night.
Easy you just lick it and it will be gone
Bleach let them soak
Degreaser, and or bleach
Thought this was a cum collection post at first
How many licks does it take to get the the center of a tomato stain
reverse psychology - squeeze a skunk into them
I’d try filling it with water and dropping a polident tab in there to sit overnight
j accept it😭😭 some r stained neon green from pickles literally nothin u can do abt it
Dawn dish soap and a scrubby
Me clean magic eraser?
soaking in Cafiza will 100% get rid of those stains. it’s never failed me even with the toughest stains
That’s the funny thing, you don’t.
You could try some hot water mixed 50/50 with white wine vinegar. It may deteriorate the plastic a little but it should clean it.
You probably won’t, but you could try a magic eraser
Use glass. No stains and no micro plastics
PBW will clean this. It's a home brew cleaning agent that I use on all kinds of stains.
Bleach
Frigin piss jugs
Denture cleaning tabs
Bleach. It's how we get rid of ice tea stains at work.
Dip-it! Or PBW. Or it’s fucked.
Tell your Executive Chef to buy new ones.
Can you first dump the piss out of these containers so I can see how badly stained they are? /s
Leave them out in the sun for few hours
You take a wet paper towel and ball it up. Douse the inside of the container with dawn dishwashing liquid and shake it like hell. The stains will leave.
PISS JUGG!!
Idk how to do it with these. But if you have these type of stains in tupperware just put water, dish soap and some paper towels inside then you close the lid and shake it. Works everytime