Do you put silicone things in the dishwasher?

[BertieBotts]

I do but I'm having issues with them. Most of the time it's fine, but every now and again something will be weird - we had this spatula with a silicone handle and every so often it would come out the dishwasher intensely sticky. I get the same with the inserts from the nuk magic cups. Most of the time fine, occasionally sticky. These are coloured silicone.

But clear silicone is even worse. If I put my baby's bottle or cup teats in which are made of clear silicone, they come out cloudy and sticky and the only way to get them clean is to wash them by hand. Today one of the teats which has been used once for plain water came back smelling strongly of garlic even sterilising hasn't got the smell out.

I don't want to have to hand wash them all the time. Does this happen to anyone else?

I do, always have done and have no issues. Maybe try the eco cycle so it’s cooler?

I find anything silicone in the dishwasher always comes out smelling of dishwasher tablets. Even worse, with silicone bakeware the smell/taste transfers to the cakes. I mostly just don’t use it because of this.

And this is across multiple dishwashers and tablet brands! Though fairy is the worst for making everything -not just silicone- smell of it.

It's just so annoying and I haven't found any solution for non spill cups for babies that is actually easy to wash

i think DH puts it on the eco cycle so can't be that. I tend to use auto 45-65.