I'm with the lovely Mrs. Smith on this one. Those of us with small children, or like me, small grandchildren, probably have left a dish of oatmeal sitting out for a while, before getting it to the dishwasher. When you have small children, things sometimes go by the wayside for a few hours/half a day. I have never seen anything that looked remotely like a fuzz or mold on an empty bowl caked with dried oatmeal. What an attention whore.