You have to scrape these plates with muscle power. There is a gritty residue left by the tomato sauce from the moussaka or lasagna or whatever the hell this new-age dish is called. Your wife simply must cook the stickiest type of food when it's your turn to wash the dishes. You finish scrubbing and rinsing the plates and put them to the side to dry - you're a drip dry kind of guy. You probably enjoyed the moussaka more than you let on but not enough to make up for the dirty pot which was nearly impossible to clean and the sissy dish-pan hands you're left with.