Use of stainless steel water bottles to carry liquid is a must-have for anyone. Fresh off the shelves, bottles are so colorful and shiny. Couple of weeks down the road, they get dirty and need to be washed. Cleaning the outside is easy, any detergent will do the job but what about the inside where thin layer of gunk stick like glue to the inside surface. Using detergent alone doesnt remove this gunk.
Therefore one needs to go invest in another tool - baby bottle cleaning brushes. But come on, they are brittle, dont remove all the gunk and they require one having to visit the store for replacement brushes x number of months later.
One can use half a cup raw rice and little bit water or baking soda + vinegar. They work too, but they wont remove the sticky gunk off the insides of the bottle-to-be-cleaned. Plus, you cant re use that rice once you use it to clean the bottles. Why waste ingredients.
But there is a solution. Using items you already have at home, where it never occurred to you that it can be used for more than just scrubbing dishes.
Items required -
- Bottle to-be-cleaned - water bottles/ protein shakers etc
- Detergent
- Scrubbing pads
- Water
- Bit of human strength
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| scrubbing pads |
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| bottle-to-be-cleaned |
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| scrubbing pad |
Put some detergent + water 1/4 size of bottle/ protein shaker and close the lid and shake away and empty the contents to a sink. Remove the scrubbing pad and refill with plain water and rinse the bottle once or twice. Congrats - now your water bottle/ protein shaker is gunk free. Repeat same procedure once a month or as and when its required.
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| a clean bottle with fresh drinking water. Mine is salt water |
As seen in the pics, my bottle [ was ] clean before i took these how-to pics. I had to test if my theory worked [ before ] i wrote an article about it.
