Why does the tupperware never dry in the dishwasher?

[short bus president]

I can leave a load sitting with the door open for a day after it runs, and everything else will be bone dry, but the scavery-ass tupperware invariably has water drops all over it. Funny thing is, I take it out and set it on the counter and it dries off in an hour or so. Why won't it do that on the rack in the open dishwasher?

Why must the tupperware taunt me so?

[Dookus]

1. tupperware is notoriously claustrophobic

What you see are little beads of tuppersweat caused by its nervousness at being closed up in the dishwasher.

[snippy]

2. But it doesn't seem to mind being closed up in the refrigerator. n/t

[Dookus]

5. duh..

ya can't sweat in a refrigerator! It's too cold!

[DemOverseas]

3. Tupperware

This product has not been the same ever since the FBI took some out of the house of Richard Jewell. It will continue to sweat till Kerry settles the country.

[trotsky]

4. I think Dookus' answer is the best.

But if you want to involve science, it's because everything else in the dishwasher (plates, silverware, glass) absorbs heat better, so that it's as hot as the water that rinsed it was. So the water evaporates in the dishwasher much more readily from those things than it does from the Tupperware, which cools within seconds and therefore does not "help" the water evaporate.

Take it out of the dishwasher, and you have much better airflow so it dries.

[Deja Q]

6. The tupperware is crying because

people ditched the styles of the late 1960s.

It feels alone. :cry:

[Lady Effingbroke]

7. It is created from raw materials not indigenous to Earth, therefore

it does not obey the laws of physics predictable to Earth-based substances.

[Robb]

8. A serious answer

...alert the media. :evilgrin:

Water will collect in older tupperware on the underneath side -- since it's usually inverted in the dishwasher -- in a pool created by the small lip that keeps tupperware stable when placed on the counter. Newer tupperware has gaps in that little lip, so water drains off in the dishwasher.

Take a small file or pen knife and cut little notches, four or five spread out, in that little lip. Your problem will, literally, evaporate. :)