help with flask

sockospice

I've been taking packed lunches into uni, but as it's getting cold now I want to take a hot drink. I've got a flask, but it hasn't been used for a few years and it smells. It's not the flask part that smells, it's the seal around the lid. I've done a search and found some stuff about cleaning the flask part, but nothing for the lid: anyone got any ideas?

MrsB_2

i would imagine that there will be an answer along shortly involving vinegar and or bicarb. Maybe soaking lid in a solution of water plus vinegar plus bicarb???

The vinegar is a natural disinfectant and bicarb is great for destroying odours.

HTH.

black-saturn

My mum sterilises hers with 2 of those tablets which you soak false teeth in. They sell them in Poundland.

MATH

I regularly take a flask out with me when I'm walking the coast road. there is nothing nicer than being on your own in some windswept spot with the surf pounding at your feet, the spray hitting your face and a hot cup of coffee laced with Baileys:beer: warming ya tum!

With many designs you can unsrew the bottom and take the flask apart (be careful not to drop the glass inner). It is amazing how much grot becomes trapped under the rim and inside the double skin of the flask. Every week or so I dismantle and give a thorough scrub out.

Rikki

I know its not about cleaning flasks, but does anyone know where I can get a food flask from?

Iguana

Lakeland (used to br known as lakeland plastics)

Gingham_Ribbon

Argos extra do some, Rikki. They look quite good.

I would try painting a thick bicarb paste round the bit that smells.

katieowl_2

Sockospice, I bet you have one of those silly little flasks that have the press down lid to let the coffee out don't you?

How do I know? Because I just sent DD to school this week with the last of the pumpkin soup for lunch, and now I can't clean it out either!!!!!! :eek:

I have tried everything to get the smell and remains of pumpkin soup out. It never occured to me that it would go in the lid, I never actually used it like that

I'm wondering if I can get a proper lid from somewhere else.....I'll not be using it again to take hot choc to the allotment THATS for sure.

Regards

Kate

black-saturn

Could you not fill it up with bicarb and water and keep pushing the top down until it's cleaned all the pipes?

Rebob

Mild solution of milton should help get rid of the smell and any germs.

sockospice

katieowl wrote:

Sockospice, I bet you have one of those silly little flasks that have the press down lid to let the coffee out don't you?

How do I know? Because I just sent DD to school this week with the last of the pumpkin soup for lunch, and now I can't clean it out either!!!!!! :eek:

I have tried everything to get the smell and remains of pumpkin soup out. It never occured to me that it would go in the lid, I never actually used it like that

I'm wondering if I can get a proper lid from somewhere else.....I'll not be using it again to take hot choc to the allotment THATS for sure.

Regards

Kate

lol, no it's a regular thermos. When I say it hasn't been used for years though, I mean years.

Thanks for the tips, I'll be trying them out!