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How to clean a Tupperware according to science
May 10, 2025
Add water and dish soap to the dirty container.
Fold a piece of paper towel and drop it into the container.
Seal the lid and shake vigorously.
Open, remove the paper towel and rinse away excess soap.
Other polar molecules, like salt, stick to these charged areas, allowing them to dissolve.
However, since oils aren't polar, water alone can't dissolve them - which makes oily stains harder to wash away.
How does this cleaning hack work?
This viral cleaning trick works to remove oily stains because it combines two effective techniques in one.
Since water alone can't dissolve oil, you need something that has the right chemical properties to pull the stains out of your Tupperware.
Mr Tetro says: 'Dish soap contains what we call a surfactant, and this chemical is excellent at trapping oils inside small, microscopic bubbles known as micelles.
'You can just add the detergent, and you’ll get micelles. But if you want to make as many as you can to improve stain removal, then you need to do one thing – shake it up like a Taylor Swift fan!
The more you shake, the more micelles you make and the better the stain removal process.'
Tips to avoid Tupperware stains
Don't leave containers filled with oily foods for too long.
Clean containers as soon as possible.
Allow food to cool completely before adding it to a container.
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