We have a BEKO 6610 dishwasher
It has been serving faithfully since 2007
We operate in very harsh conditions:
1) Instead of the correct salt, we fill with regular table salt
2) We use inexpensive Rail detergent
In this mode, it washes worse, sometimes a small white coating on the dishes.
Expensive branded products were used only for the first few years, i.e. The machine worked most of its life using cheap products.
But recently the quality of washing has sharply decreased, food remains on the dishes and the translucent sticky snot on the glass carafe is completely upset.
After that, I immediately examined the filter of the machine and found that it was covered with some kind of sticky substance.
I thought it was fat from food and the like, heated some boiling water, poured a good portion of Feary into it, add a little cold so as not to spoil the plastic, but the hand still does not tolerate such a temperature, i.e. quite hot.
Kept it in the fat-breaker solution for an hour. But it was not there. Nothing fell off, and what’s more, the impression was that it only fused even more strongly into the fine mesh.
I repeated it 2 more times, i.e. only 3 times. Zero reaction, i.e. obviously not fat. Over 10 years of operation, the filter was easily washed under hot tap water.
I began to think what it could be. The tactile sensation is very sticky, like resin, it doesn’t wash off with water, it doesn’t peel off even in boiling water, it just starts to stick even better.
You manage to pick it out in pieces, you can use cotton swabs, then all your hands are covered in this muck.
There was nothing left to do except try solvents. Turpentine came into my hand. And it immediately began to fade, it washes off relatively easily. The plastic was not damaged by the turpentine.
I thought it might be chewing gum, because other than that I don’t know any other product with such a sticky consistency. I didn’t think about it right away, because no one here chews it, but 2 weeks ago we had guests, perhaps they helped put the dishes in the dishwasher along with the chewing gum

I washed all the squiggles and filter holes for 2-3 hours, then rinsed the mesh + toothbrush.
I frayed all my nerves, this has never happened before.
Next are photos of the filter and this nasty thing. Do you think this could be chewing gum?
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