End the microplastic pollution, use glass or metal

Buying glass containers was a gamechanger for me.

One swoop - and it's clean. No grease sticks, it washes even easier than ceramic plates.

Plastic is a terrible container material for greasy foods.

Everytime i still feel the oil on the container, i'll just wash my sponge and squeeze some a fresh new dish soap and wash with it. Usually clean afterward, it's almost always the grease-soaked sponge.

Either your dish soap sucks ass, or your technique does if washing doesn't get rid of grease and oil the first time.

Should get glass or metal containers (ore sometimes even ceramic) if you can afford it or if you can sneak them into your bag/inner coat pocket.

I bought some when I could afford it ~five years ago and they're still like new.

...You have to take out the sealing band and wash it separately from the lid. So many containers are ruined because people don't take out the seals and the grow mouldy. ;-;

In this scenario I would add some dishwasher powder to some hot water and leave it for a while, the enzymes digest the fats and can be much more effective in some circumstances

Plastic is oil-based. It repels water and bonds with oil. Soap does also bond with oil but you're fighting a much more uphill battle with plastic than with, say, glass or metal. Even with other concerns about plastic aside, if this bothers you, start looking for glass.

That's when it becomes a problem for the dishwasher.

Have you considered it is not the dish but perhaps your greasy sausage fingers?

Food for thought.

Pro tip: use an actual soap bar, the one you wash your hands with. Works way better for oils, and particularly specifically on plastic.

Where I am, there are also soap bars for household tasks, with a shitload of acid in them. Would probably clean oil even better

Saw a cool trick on IG, bit wasteful but works if you really want to save the container (I agree we should switch away from plastics - someday..). Piece of paper towel or napkin, drop of dish soap, a splash of hot water, close tight and shake thoroughly so the paper goes all around the inside, remove paper, rinse, wash normally.

Dawn directly on sponge, I never have this problem.

its the same taking a bath. after the first swipe, youre wiping with that filth in a steadily increasing amount. the dirt never goes completely away in a tub

Why do we only have the shittiest of plastic containers? Oh wait, it's because we're poor; I forgot it for a single second there.

My fingers after fried chicken

Did you use hot burning water?

I assume you're washing with warm to hot water?