How do I clean my plastic drainer?

[KingEdward]

I have a large Simple Human plastic dish drainer. I love it because it's huge and holds loads of dishes but it's a complete pain to clean.

After a week or so it gets covered in browny slimy stuff which I can brush off using an old toothbrush in most areas but there are loads of nooks and crannies that I can't get to and it looks pretty grim.

Is there a way to clean it so i t actually looks clean? Would a steam cleaner do the job? I don't have one but am willing to buy one.

[RudeElf]

I was just about to suggest a steam cleaner. If its just for this job a cheap one might be sufficient. Is the drainer too large to soak in the sink? I'm assuming you have no dishwasher?

[KingEdward]

Yes. Its too large for the sink and don't have a dishwasher either. It's got a cutlery holder with it too which gets really gunky inside in the corners.

[SmellySourdough]

put it in the bath/shower. spray with kitchen spray + hose off.

[doublechocchip]

I used to have this problem with ours so I binned it in the end and bought a stainless steel thin one and no more gunk. There was something really depressing about having to scrub (and it be a faff) the thing that is meant to hold your clean dishes, I always felt it shouldn't need cleaning!

[flanjabelle]

Double - I have been considering the same thing as I'm fed up with my plastic one. Where does the cutlery go on a metal one?

[doublechocchip]

There's a sort of long dipped section for the cutlery which wouldn't drain as well if there was a big load of it as they did upright but the lack of gunk more than made up for it. I just grab them all up in tea towel and wipe as I walk to put them away.

[WingsClipped]

Borrow someone's dishwasher! I had the same problem- also a simplehuman drainer and the only thing that sorted all the gunk and brown marks was sticking it in the dishwasher. I'm guessing that a spray of viakal might help.