Why doesn't peanut butter wash off the silverware in the dishwasher?
I think the peanut butter has some super power cape against the soap...I know it's oil, but come on, soap and scalding hot water? Why is it still there, caked on like it never went through that one hour cycle of power washing.
Forget about trying to get people (meaning my family) to wipe off the spoon before they plunk it in the washer.
I think I'm going to ban peanut butter in my house...LOL or put the crusty spoon at their place setting when I set the table for dinner!!
I know I'm lucky to have a dishwasher, but I do need it to work a little harder on the peanut butter.
How about you and your dishwasher? Does peanut butter bug you or am I the only "nut" case.
Maybe it's the soap door doesn't open, or spots on the glasses, or when the silverware slips in the big holes in the basket and they stop the rack from rolling, or when you break a glass "in" the dishwasher...maybe I should just hand wash my dishes LOL!!
Happy Thursday,
~Karen~
Your post made me giggle so thanks for that. My husband has taken on dishwashing duties and he has all sorts of rules about how everything is "prepared" before going in the dw....sometimes it is quite painful but as he is away on business this week, I realise that I am missing his dedication.
ReplyDeleteSame prob in my house too!
ReplyDeleteYou mean other people besides just you put their dishes in the dishwasher?! Huh.
ReplyDeleteI wish that was the only thing my dishwasher didn't get off my dishes! I have to scrub them clean and then use the dishwasher to sanitize. Oh, to have a decent dishwasher.
ReplyDeleteMy husband was just complaining about peanut butter still stuck to our knives the other day, but with a preschooler and a toddler in our house, I don't see eliminating peanut butter any time soon. =) Basically our knives get washed twice one way or another... either before or after the dishwasher has run.
ReplyDeleteHmm, we don't have the peanut butter problem in our dishwasher but I think peanuty buttery things are usually licked pretty clean around here before going in!! I do notice that an empty peanut butter container is difficult to wash out though. I always think that putting hot water in, putting the lid on and shaking it like mad would do the trick, but no. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteMy dishwasher pet peave is that plastic containers, like tupperware, etc., NEVER come out dry. Everything else is dry, but those are always very wet, inside and out. So I move them over to my dish rack by the sink to air dry!
I hated my dishwasher so much (not removing caked on food, grease, leaving spots, etc.) that I did start handwashing my dishes and put them in the dishwasher to dry so they would be off of the counter. :) I've been doing this for 2-3 years. You pretty much have to wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher anyway, so why waste twice the water.
ReplyDeleteWish my family would rinse their plates etc before putting them in dishwasher. Now I know to buy a particular shaped cereal bowl, or dishwasher can't clean it properly and leaves a funny pebbly residue at the base. Does this post mean we are going to redesign a dishwasher together?
ReplyDeleteIt drives me BATTY... I am so glad that I am not the only one!
ReplyDeleteWe were just discussing peanut butter on flatware this weekend at a party. NO ONE had a dishwasher that could remove it. And I've given up recycling pb jars - it takes more energy and water to clean it than it's worth.
ReplyDeleteWow, I had no idea. My daughter is actually allergic to peanuts so we don't use peanut butter but this makes me wonder about families who use it even though one of their kids is allergic. How could they ever be confident all of it is cleaned off? I think if it was me I'd use plastic and toss it.
ReplyDeleteI am not a huge fan of peanut butter so that isn't an issue for me. However, the thing that drives me around the bend is whatever knife I use to cut cheese NEVER comes clean in the dishwasher. It drove me so crazy that I have issued a mandate. If you slice cheese, handwash the knife. Another thing that I don't understand is when all of my dishes are nice and sparkling clean coming out of the dishwasher and one (just one) glass ends up with some kind of powder residue. Why?! I clean my dishwasher interior faithfully. That powdery stuff drives me crazy!
ReplyDeleteYou think peanut butter is bad, try to clean a spoon that has went through the cycle that had sour cream on it. It gets baked on there like cement!!!
ReplyDeleteSo lately, I've just been washing my dishes by hand, and using the dishwasher as a BIG dish drainer! LOL! It has always bothered me that the dishwasher had to run for so long......
ReplyDeleteTook the dishwasher to the curb! I now wash everything by hand...the good old fashioned way. We're empty nesters so it's not too bad. And I have a beautiful view of a lake in our backyard.
ReplyDeleteTo funny! The dishwashing detergent not dissolving all the way is my pet peeve. The time it really makes me made is when we're unloading the dishwasher to set the table because there aren't enough dishes clean and the darn thing is still sitting on the bottom of the tub! Thanks for a great laugh to start the day!
ReplyDeleteIf it's not organic, it probably will stick. Just think of how it has a hard time breaking down in your belly...just sayin'...
ReplyDeleteHave the same problem here at my house. My DH usually makes him a PB sandwich for his lunch. Just leaves the spoon in the sink with the PB still on it. It doesn't come clean in the dishwasher unless I wash it first.
ReplyDeleteHee hee hee. I'm giggling at this too! Too true!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain and frustration! I have a 60 year old husband that says he is NOT responsible for the peanut butter encrusted silverware! Perhaps I should ask the CAT!
ReplyDeleteIt's not the dishwasher, it's the detergent. Since they removed phosphates, the dishes don't always look clean when you take them out. Ugh!
ReplyDeletewell around here you lick all the PB off the knife prior to putting it in the dish washer. Here, it is always that a certain one person always puts the forks right where you go to get everything else and end up piercing your hand,,,, doesn't matter how many times you ask that the forks go to the back.....
ReplyDeleteI could write a dissertation on that peanut butter! I'm glad to read I'm not the only one who has that problem. I've told my husband over and over to rinse it off first but it never happens. And he has a spoonful of peanut butter every single night before he goes to bed! Blessings, marlene
ReplyDeleteI just got a new dishwasher and some of the top rack rows don't hold any of my mugs or tumblers. Are you supposed to bring your china to the store to check things out?
ReplyDeleteYep, PB on utensils, definitely an issue.... You are not alone!
ReplyDeleteI noticed the same thing about peanut butter. I just wash those pieces by hand. My gripe is the pieces that have little "pools" of water on them when I empty the dishwasher, and forget about anybody else in the house putting anything in the dishwasher. HA!
ReplyDeleteDo they make a peanut butter dishwasher? LOL. If it doesn't
ReplyDeletecome off the spoon, think what
it is doing in your tummy...hmmm.
I wash mine off good before I put them in the dishwasher, it's kinda
like washing them twice. I guess I am too clean.
Oh definitely boycott peanut butter!! I've often wondered the same thing, it will wash off dried on 'sgetti' sauce, dried chocolate, BUT peanut butter is there to stay! Do you ever wonder what it does to your insides?? Can you tell I don't eat it? other members do! Rinsing before doesn't even help!! Guess you could say it has staying power!!
ReplyDeleteI bought a dishwasher 5 years ago and my hubby has yet to hook it up. If he tells me to do the dishes, I just tell him that I will go load the dishwasher. He gets the point then HE goes and does the dishes. I though about paying someone to hook it up for me, but why when he is the one washing them most of the time? LOL
ReplyDeleteSilly! You're supposed to lick the peanut butter off the knife before putting it in the dishwasher. ;-)
ReplyDeleteYes, we stuff peanut butter inside the Kong toy for our dog and if he can't lick it all out, it gets gross and crusty ... and the dishwasher won't get rid of it either.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it's the lack of phosphates in diswasher detergent which is now the culprit.
Drives me nuts, too! It's not you, it's the dish soap. They have regulated the washing ability out of our detergents!
ReplyDeletedishwashing detergent no longer has the scrubbing power like it once did. The government forced them to eliminate phosphates. I heard many people are finding ways to get around this. LOL. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm one of those "nutso" people who rinse and get all the food off the dishes before they go in a dishwasher. I basically use a dishwasher to sterilize my dishes. Right now though I'm doing them by hand bz the dishwasher broke beyohnd repair and I can't afford a new one until tax time. My fingers are crossed hoping for enough $$ coming back to get a dishwasher!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Aleisha, my dishwasher has become my industrial sized dish drainer, and even with 7 of us in the house, as long as I stay on top of it the dishes don't take long to hand wash.
ReplyDeleteMy dishwasher is my hubby! One day he said, "Ya know, I don't really mind doing dishes." That's all it took.....now it's his job! HA!
ReplyDeleteI do them about twice a year.....and make a HUGE deal about how I did them! lol
Years ago, when I had a dishwasher and it broke, the repair man used peanut butter as a test to see if it was working yet. It has to be scrubbed now that I hand wash, too, if that makes you feel any better!
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem! Every time I unload the dishwasher there is peanut butter left on either a spoon or a knife. It drives me crazy...glad I am not the only one. Oh and the soap door never opens, I just pour soap it in the bottom and let it rip!
ReplyDeleteWhen I use p.b., I wipe the blade with a napkin/paper towel first. Rubs right off! Since it's oily, you know? Then in the d.w. it goes. Yes, lots of little pet peeves...but thank goodness for the $@&#€% d.w. anyway!!! Right?? LOL
ReplyDeleteOK...here's something I heard on Blue Collar Comedy XM radio recently:
WHY does toothpaste fall off the toothbrush SO easily...but sticks like GLUE to the sink????? Huh??!
So in my house when we need a spoon for peanut butter, we use plastic and toss it. I don't seem to have a problem when we use a knife. I think because we scrap more off on the bread than when you use a spoon.
ReplyDeleteHeather mentioned that her problem is with cleaning the empty jar. We give that to the dog as a very special treat. It is amazing how long her tongue is. Once she has licked out all she can reach she brings me the jar so I can scrap anything else out and move it up the sides of the jar. Sick, I know, but just look at that face.
You are so right! What is that stuff made of anyway? Luckily, I'm the only one that uses peanut butter for the most part in my house and I always wipe off the spoon/knife!
ReplyDeleteIt's like you can read my mind!!! My husband never rinses knives with peanut butter and it never comes off in the dishwasher- drives me nuts!!
ReplyDeleteOur dishwasher doesn't get anything clean at all. In fact, sometimes things come out dirtier than they go in! I don't have a solution to your spoon dilemma, but I recently found out that my local animal shelter takes donations of almost-empty peanut butter jars. Apparently the dogs love to lick them clean! I will never again have to try to wash another peanut butter jar out for recycling. Yay!
ReplyDeleteyep, peanut butter covered knives and spoons do not get clean in the dishwasher unless wiped/rinsed very well prior to loading and washing cycles..i even tried turning up the heat on the hot water and still have the problem.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem - but I turn the peanut butter knives UP out of the basket now instead of safe way down and it seems to work alot better than before. there are still a few offending knives if there were gobs of pb on them before. But if its just a bit, turning the knives in the up position seems to do the trick for me.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I thought I was the only one with the peanut butter problem. LOL It is a pain. So now I have to check the washer before I turn it on. This is really funny, glad to have company on peanut butter and the dish washer. Thanks for making my day.
ReplyDeleteSame with avocados. What's the deal? Just started following your blog. Love your style and ideas.
ReplyDeleteHeehee, yes, we have the same problem with peanut butter. Love your blog!
ReplyDeleteLol...it's a universal thing. PB will not come off that spoon.
ReplyDeleteOh, the PEANUT BUTTER! I can't figure out why, if they like peanut butter so much, that they don't LICK OFF THE SPOON!!! Wouldn't that be a win-win situation? Mind boggling!
ReplyDeleteJudy
Licking the spoon doesn't help. My hubby has a spoonful of pb every day. He licks the spoon 'clean' but a filmy residue is left behind. It doesn't come off in the dishwasher.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about giving the dog the empty pb jar. I'll have to remember that. pam
Not sure about peanut butter but mine wont get canned pet food off so I have taken to using plastic spoons and pitching them because there is no way I am gonna try an lick them. LOL
ReplyDeleteMade me laugh, I hadnt thought of anyone else having this pb problem, I do too, have to scrub with brush first. And even using the rinse aid I sometimes have that film on glasses, so I add a few drops of dish detergent, wallah, they sparkle,also run a cup of vinegar through the dishwasher once a month,cleans out all the *%#@ through the system. New follower here, Hope you will visit Oh! My Heartsie Live Laugh Love To Shop and Followto follow and comment!!
ReplyDeleteKarren Haller
Karen you are definitely not alone! My boys eat peanut butter every single day. If you wash off the knife with a dish cloth, you then have peanut butter stuck in your dish cloth and it takes a bit of rincing to get it out of the cloth. I'm not sure what the solution is really...but in my house..it can't be banning peanut butter because there would be no breakfast eaten in this house.
ReplyDeleteSmiles,
Kelly
I hate to admit it, but I let the dog lick it clean before I put it in the sink. He loves the treat and problem solved!
ReplyDeleteOne of us has a peanut allergy, so we have a peanut free home. I would be so willing to wash peanut butter off silverware, if only none of us had the allergy.
ReplyDeleteMy dishwasher really doesn't wash the dishes very well. We have to "rinse" them first. Even stuff you would think would come clean-- doesn't. Maybe I'll try the handwash and use it as a drainer and then sterilize it with the hot dry.....
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