Hi...What is the best way to clean melted plastic out of the bottom of a dishwasher?? Also how to get the smell of burnt plastic out of the dishwasher ??Thanks in advance :))...
Get you a copper or wire brush and scrub off all the melted plastic on the circular heating coil at the bottom of the dishwasher. Try to get all the chunks and tidbits up after you finish scrubbing. Then run the dishwasher one time with dishwasher soap, and then take the filter out, typically by pulling up the surface of the dishwasher, and see if there are any deposits in the filter. It's good to service the filter regularly anyways so it doesn't clog on you from all kinds of junk that makes it way into the dishwasher. If the smell doesn't go away, it's likely you missed some, but after a couple of more washes, that should wipe out the smell and any residual toxins.
All plastics are polymers (but not the other way around). There are a zillion different plastics, and a wide range of melting temperatures for them. Some don't melt, but actually suffer decomposition at higher temperatures because their molecular structure won't permit them to melt. Unfortunately, the question is so broad that not much more can be said. PVC, polyvinyl chloride, melts at 212 °C (about 414 °F). Teflon, which we use to coat cookware, is polytetrafluoroethene - PTFE, and it melts at 327 °C (about 621 °F). Whatever plastic that was made out of, probably had a high melting point, if it had one at all
