Cleaning flasks

Fay

hi everyone
My boyfriend takes 2 flasks to work everyday, one with a hot drink and one with soup and they are a nightmare to clean! I soak them for ages, then wash them out a few times. I am going to get a bottle brush to see if this helps. But does anyone have any tips for clean, nice smelling flasks? I used to use bicarb but he swore it left a taste in the flask :rolleyes:

Chip_Butty_3

Try Boiling water with some lemon Juice or get some denture cleaning tablets, sterident (think thats what they used to be called) I used to use them

Pauls

My brother in law swears by oxi clean

Number_6_3

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I find the tablets very effective...just a case of washing out a few time after use.

HTH

R

taplady

My mum used to swear by sterident tablets but i have also found milton fluid to be good as well!

profpatpending

I always use soday crystals and boiling water. Leave to soak for a couple of hours and rinse well. It makes me realise I should do this more often when I see just how clean it is after!

Queenie

Forget paying for oxiclean, denture tablets (unless you use them anyway: ) or milton fluid or even soda crystals (you have to be a bit careful about the thermos lining) ... stick with a little bicarbonate of soda with some hot water; leave it to soak overnight, rinse well. That should do the trick Do this "after" you have cleaned them with normal washing up water. (But not in a dishwasher - unless the flask is specifically made to be cleaned in one!)

If your BF still insists he can taste/smell if you've used bicarb remember that flasks tend to have an aroma/flavour all of their very own :rolleyes: .

Do you use a different "colour/type" of flask? ie: one for his beverage and a different one for his soup? If not, do so Also, you may well want to consider NOT putting the milk/sugar into his tea/coffee flask and let him add those seperately; for some reason it really does make a difference.

As for the soups, could it be that he is tasting the salts from the soup in his beverage flask? (Hence my question re: different coloured/type of flask for each).

Bicarb DOES work - I've been doing flasks for (seemingly!) centuries and it's the very best method. Just, don't use too much.

Remember the old adage: "What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over"! If you don't *tell* him you are using bicarb ... there is no way he will know

I wish you well.

calleyw

I have a glass flask the posh ones like you see in meeting for tea and coffee. Well I boil the kettle and pour the excess in there.

Now I have a scale problem. How do I get rid of it. I have a bottle brush and try every day to clean it out. But there is a slight build up in there.

I have tried denture tablets (husband needs them)what else can I use. Only thing I have not tried is boiling vinegar and proper descaler.

Yours

Calley

Queenie

calley - vinegar will work, but then so should the denture tablets for the scale build up.

(I descale my kettle with both depending on what's at hand; I live in a hardwater area, ie: lots of limescale!)

akh43

I just fill my flask with hot water and then make my drink or cup a soup fresh at work that way I don't have to clean my flask.

ampersand

Fay wrote:

hi everyone
My boyfriend takes 2 flasks to work everyday, one with a hot drink and one with soup and they are a nightmare to clean! I soak them for ages, then wash them out a few times. I am going to get a bottle brush to see if this helps. But does anyone have any tips for clean, nice smelling flasks? I used to use bicarb but he swore it left a taste in the flask :rolleyes:

Hello Fay,
Bi-carb IS the best - did you pour boiling water onto it and leave it to go cold before bottlebrushing?
The only smell then is the lack of one...promise.