When I make myself a bowl of ice cream, I can typically “wash” my bowl to a pretty clean degree with just hot water. However, other foods like a braised beef reduction can produce fats that take quite a few cycles with hot water + soap to get off. Or when I get takeout with chili oil.
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Ice cream has a much lower fat content than pure fat, and a lot of its fat is emulsified into the cream. So it is a lot easier for the water to get in between the bowl and the residue. Fat is hydrophobic so water cannot get in between the molecules stuck to the bowl and the bowl.
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