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Can we talk about how long it took me to figure out my dish soap was leaving a film on everything?
So I moved into this new apartment in Austin about 3 months ago and I noticed my glasses and plates always looked cloudy even after washing them twice. I tried switching sponges, I tried hotter water, I even ran my dishwasher on a heavy cycle with a pod and it still happened. It took me almost 7 weeks to realize the cheap lemon soap I grabbed from the dollar store was the problem the whole time. I actually thought it was my water hardness, so I bought a $40 test kit off Amazon and everything came back normal. The soap was like $1.25 for a big bottle and I was proud of that deal, but it left this gross greasy layer that I could only see when I held a glass up to my kitchen light. Now here is where I need yall to weigh in, because half my friends say I should just shut up and buy a better brand, and the other half say its my rinsing method and not the soap at all. Which side are you on, is it always the soap or can technique really fix a bad formula?
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mark491d ago
Disagree with the whole "just buy better soap" take, because technique really does matter more than people admit. If you're not rinsing with hot enough water or you're stacking wet dishes so they air dry in a puddle, even good soap leaves spots and haze. Try washing one glass with that same cheap lemon stuff but rinse it under running hot water for a solid 20 seconds and dry it with a clean towel right away. I bet it comes out clear, which means the real issue was how you rinsed, not the $1.25 price tag. People love blaming the product because it's easier than admitting their method is lazy, but a film that only shows up under your kitchen light is classic soap residue from not rinsing enough. So what happens if you test that one glass tonight, does it still look cloudy?
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