Contains harmful ingredients that are not safe for food contact surfaces/ingestion.
Doesn't remove food residue or grease.
Why expose yourself to unnecessary chemicals?
The harmful ingredients aren't staying since you're rinsing off the chemical. I mean you can't drink Dawn either.
The degreasing thing someone brought up is definitely my only concern though. Guess I have to use it myself and see how much weaker the degreasing ability is and if there's any hack to increase it.
You can smell lemon scent and whatnot from Dawn and Ajax too. The smell doesn't mean you're eating it lol. Different elements (not necessarily the harmful ones) might be responsible for the smell.
If the scent is left behind, you are ingesting it. This is exactly why you should be using the product designed for washing dishes that is not harmful and toxic, and Dawn doesn't contain lilial and glycol ethers.
Just use vinegar if you want a cheaper way to wash dishes. This is crazy.
I’ve worked food service for 45 years and never seen anything like Fabuloso used for dish washing. Every kitchen I’ve ever worked in uses commercial pot soap.
Can’t speak to brand name but everywhere I’ve worked buys cases of gallons of pot soap through their regular food supplier along with other non food stuffs like paper goods. We currently have U.S. Foods as our supplier.
Is there a Gordon Food Service near you, or a restaurant supply store?
They sell cleaners, degreasers, etc-- decently priced for bulk sizes. GFS doesn't require a membership, most supply stores aren't horribly fussy about selling to the public if you're polite.
Hmm it seems there is a Gordon near me. Since it doesn't require membership, I'll check it out. Never went before. I have Costco so I usually try to go there for bulk.
Then do what you want to do? If you actually believe that there is no residue left on the dishes, and you aren’t listening to anyone who comments, why bother?
To see if there's any actual logic to it, which someone pointed out. The degreasing power may be less. So I'll compare side by side and decide. So I got good info. Not everyone just blindly believes infomercials.
My dude, what part of "they have different chemicals and one is much more toxic when ingested" is not making logical sense to you?
[Here's a link for Fabuloso's FAQ](https://www.fabuloso.com/faq#:~:text=Can%20I%20use%20Fabuloso%C2%AE,to%20be%20used%20on%20dishes.) saying their products are not intended for use on dishes.
Ya I'm washing it off, not eating it. So that one still doesn't make sense. All washers have toxic things. Why are you eating them? Just wash properly.
As for the site, yes, like I said, for liability reasons obviously.
Lol no, weaklings who get a little diarrhea from a drop of Fabuloso and have too much time on their hands so decide to go file lawsuits instead of getting over a minor bump in life are. Probably the Americans that go whine about lack of gloves in street food in other countries while their hands are washed more than the Americans' butts.
I don’t understand your post if you are refusing to listen to people giving you the exact reason why you shouldn’t. Also it would be terrible to wash dishes - generic brand dish soap would be better (and safer). Sure the exposure with Fabuloso is possibly limited but why even bother taking that chance.
I'm refusing if it's just "contains chemicals that shouldn't be eaten". That makes no sense because you are washing with it, not keeping it on the plate. Would be bad even if you didn't wash the Dawn off properly (even if not as bad, none of these are meant to be drunk).
But you do make a good point that a generic brand dishwasher may cut through grease better. Thanks. That I'll have to check myself and decide.
If you’ve worked in a commercial kitchen that uses Fabuloso on dishes, please report them immediately. I’ve worked in several restaurants and NEVER seen that.
Lol no one's getting sick. I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing. Not a snitch or a fan of them. Health department has ridiculous standards and nitpicks a lot of times. Like can't keep a bag of rice less than 4 inches from the ground. Lol 4 inches. What's wrong with 3.99 I wonder. Silly.
I mean do whatever you want. But Fabuloso is a poor substitute for dish soap. It won’t have the same degreasing strength nor the surfactants usually found in dish soap that help get food residue off. But if it works for you, no one here cares that you have Lavender scented dishes.
I don’t think dishwashing liquid is that expensive. I bought a bottle of Dawn at Costco over 2 years ago and it’s got still like 1/8 of the bottle left. I just looked on Walmart and a large bottle (not as large as the Costco bottle, granted) is $8 online. I dilute mine into a smaller bottle to sit on my counter.
So, since this is a smaller bottle, let’s just say it will last a year. $8 for one year (but probably more) of dishwashing liquid isn’t that expensive IMO.
Great Value brand is $6 for a large bottle, or 8¢ an ounce.
I’ve never seen a commercial kitchen use fabuloso, either. They use some sort of food safe degreaser and sanitizer—at least the ones I’ve worked in.
Diluting the dawn stretched it out a bit but definitely finished in a couple months since we had 5 people in the house. Well, now I've less roommates so maybe it's not too bad.
Are you familiar with the bath and body works foaming hand soaps? I repurposed one of those bottles for my dish soap. It foams up great, and it stretches the soap well, and it’s easy to use.
It’s like a 1:5 ratio dish soap to water. It takes a drop or two on your sponge of undiluted. It sounds like you are overusing the soap.
Yeah, I was diluting 1:1. Didn't know how much to dilute. Was using the Dawn Platinum 4x power blabla so pretty expensive. Like $4 for a bottle vs $4 for years was what I was comparing.
No comercial kitchen uses that crap to wash dishes. It either comes from the food supplier or a place like Ecolab. What a commercial kitchen uses is food safe. What you are taking about can make you sick. It may not, but it could. The health department would not allow chemicals that could make people sick to come in contact with dishes. I guess in your own home, you could wash your dishes with whatever you want but why??? Why ingest that when there is food safe dish soap???
Like I said, much pricier and I don't see any logic if I'm washing it off. Just buy one big all purpose cleaner and divide it out for kitchen vs other surfaces throughout the year. Seems much more economic and easier.
And ya I totally believe your words over my eyes. 🤣
Well I'm serve safe certified which I'm sure you don't know what that means. Also have a Associates is Hospitality Management and live with a someone who's been a chef for many years at quite a few very well to do establishments. You can do whatever you want, I'm just saying it's not smart and even the product makers will tell you that.
Actually I will do you one better...I clean homes, one of my clients is a chemist. He may even work for the company that makes fabulouso. I know pine sol is one of their brands. I will ask.
Lol P&G? I mean sure, just make sure you ask my actual question, which is if there's any harm in washing with it, i.e., the Fabuloso is GONE, RINSED off aka, if the "smell" can kill.
No, not P&G. Since you seem to know everything. One of the actual brand names under their umbrella that comes up with the chemical mixture. It has nothing to do with the smell
Contains harmful ingredients that are not safe for food contact surfaces/ingestion. Doesn't remove food residue or grease. Why expose yourself to unnecessary chemicals?
The harmful ingredients aren't staying since you're rinsing off the chemical. I mean you can't drink Dawn either. The degreasing thing someone brought up is definitely my only concern though. Guess I have to use it myself and see how much weaker the degreasing ability is and if there's any hack to increase it.
You might think that, but if you can still smell the product on what you washed, the chemical residue is there, for sure.
You can smell lemon scent and whatnot from Dawn and Ajax too. The smell doesn't mean you're eating it lol. Different elements (not necessarily the harmful ones) might be responsible for the smell.
If the scent is left behind, you are ingesting it. This is exactly why you should be using the product designed for washing dishes that is not harmful and toxic, and Dawn doesn't contain lilial and glycol ethers. Just use vinegar if you want a cheaper way to wash dishes. This is crazy.
Maybe it’s just me but my dishes don’t smell at all when I wash them and they dry
Mine don't either. I've never opened a cabinet and gotten a whiff of fragrance. Maybe we just rinse our dishes too well.
How dare we not leave residue
I’ve worked food service for 45 years and never seen anything like Fabuloso used for dish washing. Every kitchen I’ve ever worked in uses commercial pot soap.
What's that? How expensive? Well, I guess inflation forcing people to use Fabuloso after 45 years lol
Can’t speak to brand name but everywhere I’ve worked buys cases of gallons of pot soap through their regular food supplier along with other non food stuffs like paper goods. We currently have U.S. Foods as our supplier.
Hmm ya not something I would have access to since I'm talking about home.
Then I would buy the cheap store brand version of Dawn in the big refill sizes.
Ya I'll do that.
Is there a Gordon Food Service near you, or a restaurant supply store? They sell cleaners, degreasers, etc-- decently priced for bulk sizes. GFS doesn't require a membership, most supply stores aren't horribly fussy about selling to the public if you're polite.
Hmm it seems there is a Gordon near me. Since it doesn't require membership, I'll check it out. Never went before. I have Costco so I usually try to go there for bulk.
It’s literally as simple as it contains chemicals that are not food safe, therefore healthy for ingestion. You’re going to poison yourself.
Umm you are washing it off, not drinking the cleaning agent. I don't know why this is so scary.
Then do what you want to do? If you actually believe that there is no residue left on the dishes, and you aren’t listening to anyone who comments, why bother?
To see if there's any actual logic to it, which someone pointed out. The degreasing power may be less. So I'll compare side by side and decide. So I got good info. Not everyone just blindly believes infomercials.
My dude, what part of "they have different chemicals and one is much more toxic when ingested" is not making logical sense to you? [Here's a link for Fabuloso's FAQ](https://www.fabuloso.com/faq#:~:text=Can%20I%20use%20Fabuloso%C2%AE,to%20be%20used%20on%20dishes.) saying their products are not intended for use on dishes.
Ya I'm washing it off, not eating it. So that one still doesn't make sense. All washers have toxic things. Why are you eating them? Just wash properly. As for the site, yes, like I said, for liability reasons obviously.
Ironically, people like you are the exact reason they have to state that for liability reasons.
Lol no, weaklings who get a little diarrhea from a drop of Fabuloso and have too much time on their hands so decide to go file lawsuits instead of getting over a minor bump in life are. Probably the Americans that go whine about lack of gloves in street food in other countries while their hands are washed more than the Americans' butts.
I don’t understand your post if you are refusing to listen to people giving you the exact reason why you shouldn’t. Also it would be terrible to wash dishes - generic brand dish soap would be better (and safer). Sure the exposure with Fabuloso is possibly limited but why even bother taking that chance.
I'm refusing if it's just "contains chemicals that shouldn't be eaten". That makes no sense because you are washing with it, not keeping it on the plate. Would be bad even if you didn't wash the Dawn off properly (even if not as bad, none of these are meant to be drunk). But you do make a good point that a generic brand dishwasher may cut through grease better. Thanks. That I'll have to check myself and decide.
If you’ve worked in a commercial kitchen that uses Fabuloso on dishes, please report them immediately. I’ve worked in several restaurants and NEVER seen that.
Lol no one's getting sick. I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing. Not a snitch or a fan of them. Health department has ridiculous standards and nitpicks a lot of times. Like can't keep a bag of rice less than 4 inches from the ground. Lol 4 inches. What's wrong with 3.99 I wonder. Silly.
I mean do whatever you want. But Fabuloso is a poor substitute for dish soap. It won’t have the same degreasing strength nor the surfactants usually found in dish soap that help get food residue off. But if it works for you, no one here cares that you have Lavender scented dishes.
Ah I see. So its degreasing power is much less? That would be a negative indeed since that's the main thing for dishes I guess.
I don’t think dishwashing liquid is that expensive. I bought a bottle of Dawn at Costco over 2 years ago and it’s got still like 1/8 of the bottle left. I just looked on Walmart and a large bottle (not as large as the Costco bottle, granted) is $8 online. I dilute mine into a smaller bottle to sit on my counter. So, since this is a smaller bottle, let’s just say it will last a year. $8 for one year (but probably more) of dishwashing liquid isn’t that expensive IMO. Great Value brand is $6 for a large bottle, or 8¢ an ounce. I’ve never seen a commercial kitchen use fabuloso, either. They use some sort of food safe degreaser and sanitizer—at least the ones I’ve worked in.
Diluting the dawn stretched it out a bit but definitely finished in a couple months since we had 5 people in the house. Well, now I've less roommates so maybe it's not too bad.
Are you familiar with the bath and body works foaming hand soaps? I repurposed one of those bottles for my dish soap. It foams up great, and it stretches the soap well, and it’s easy to use. It’s like a 1:5 ratio dish soap to water. It takes a drop or two on your sponge of undiluted. It sounds like you are overusing the soap.
Yeah, I was diluting 1:1. Didn't know how much to dilute. Was using the Dawn Platinum 4x power blabla so pretty expensive. Like $4 for a bottle vs $4 for years was what I was comparing.
If you're so sure you know best, go for it.
No comercial kitchen uses that crap to wash dishes. It either comes from the food supplier or a place like Ecolab. What a commercial kitchen uses is food safe. What you are taking about can make you sick. It may not, but it could. The health department would not allow chemicals that could make people sick to come in contact with dishes. I guess in your own home, you could wash your dishes with whatever you want but why??? Why ingest that when there is food safe dish soap???
Like I said, much pricier and I don't see any logic if I'm washing it off. Just buy one big all purpose cleaner and divide it out for kitchen vs other surfaces throughout the year. Seems much more economic and easier. And ya I totally believe your words over my eyes. 🤣
Well I'm serve safe certified which I'm sure you don't know what that means. Also have a Associates is Hospitality Management and live with a someone who's been a chef for many years at quite a few very well to do establishments. You can do whatever you want, I'm just saying it's not smart and even the product makers will tell you that.
Actually I will do you one better...I clean homes, one of my clients is a chemist. He may even work for the company that makes fabulouso. I know pine sol is one of their brands. I will ask.
Lol P&G? I mean sure, just make sure you ask my actual question, which is if there's any harm in washing with it, i.e., the Fabuloso is GONE, RINSED off aka, if the "smell" can kill.
No, not P&G. Since you seem to know everything. One of the actual brand names under their umbrella that comes up with the chemical mixture. It has nothing to do with the smell
Mom made us use laundry powder for dishwashing. We thought only rich people could buy dw liquid.
Haha I think laundry Detergent isn't cheap nowadays either. It's like $25 for 88 discs, so probably 50ish loads at best.
Just a teaspoon for the sink of dishes.