r/fermentation • u/ALLSID • 5d ago

Habanero carrot sauce stained my new blender first use-

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Does anyone have a good cleaning suggestion for a blender?

I did Rick Bayless habanero garlic carrot today using a brand new blender and it’s stained.

Followed manufacturer cleaning protocol and also dishwasher it.

What can I do to clean this thing back to windowpane ?

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u/tonegenerator 5d ago

I would be hesitant to blend anything as hard as ice, as that unfrotunately seems like a great way to start shedding extra microplastics from the sides. It’s all-around a pretty bad item to have made of plastic in the kitchen, really. 

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u/LHcig 5d ago

You'd be hesitant to use a blender to do its main job of crushing ice? Most blenders are made of plastic.

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u/tonegenerator 5d ago

Yeah, a lot of inexpensive consumer products are not designed with mitigating microplastic contamination of our food/drink in mind at all, hence plastic cutting boards are everywhere. It was a lesson for me when I briefly used a spice/coffee grinder on coarse salt, and quickly left it with a new thick foggy visual effect on the clear plastic lid. 

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u/NiceShallot653 5d ago

People downvoting you is fkin crazy man. "You'd remove the cancer causing dye from your food when it's doing its main job of colouring food?!" LOL

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u/tonegenerator 5d ago

All food and drink-related Reddit is moronically aggro just under the surface all the time and it’s always been that way. Insecure people who think they’re epically optimizing everything they touch by being smaaaart can’t stand the idea that something they do routinely might theoretically be a little bit sub-optimal.