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I had the same problem with my Racor filter. It's just crap in the bowl and it was easily to disassemble it and clean it out so it will be transparent again. It was an annoyance worth fixing.
Buy your wife a new sponge scratchy thingy for the kitchen sink, when use the old one with liberal amounts of Soft Scrub to clean the bowl. Works great and it won't scratch the bowl. More than likely it's been a while in between cleanings, so I'd check to see if the gasket or 'O' ring needed replacement.
It would help if we had an idea of the model/style of your filter. Some of the canister Racors have a spin-off see thru bowl and others are secured by a ring of screws IIRC. At any rate, the gunk that was on the interior surface of my bowl cleaned up with a paper towel. The exterior surface may have a tougher grime on it that might be cut with WD-40 and a soft cloth or the soft scrub method that fullkeel7 mentioned. Guess the next step would be to google your filter and see if you can find an exploded diagram that shows what keeps it together.
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