Drying the inside of a decanter

debtdalek

Washed a ships decanter with very narrow neck the other day and it's still wet inside.
I've tried the airing cupboard and a hair dryer on both hot and cold.
Any ideas very welcome!

sunshinetours

Upside down on draining board for a day - works on ours. Make sure you rinse out with clean water before drying though

AlwaysSomething

Put it in the microwave if there's no metal in it. A minute should boil away all the moisture.
We will probably get a raft of people now saying that if you run a microwave empty it's very dangerous, and a black hole will open and swallow the universe. If this bothers you, put a small cup of water in the microwave too. The steam should evapourate from the decanter before the cup of water boils.

Nile

debtdalek wrote: »

Washed a ships decanter with very narrow neck the other day and it's still wet inside.
I've tried the airing cupboard and a hair dryer on both hot and cold.
Any ideas very welcome!

Hello debtdalek

If you have any of those little sachet bags of silica gel (the type you get when you buy a new handbag;)), split the sachet open and pour the beads inside the decanter and seal the decanter neck..........and leave for a couple of hours.

The beads can be dried out in a warm oven (place them in an open container or in a dish) and used again. Repeat the drying out process until all moisture has gone.

WARNING - Do not use silca gel beads if you intend to use the decanter for storing liquids to drink. If you want to dry the decanter for display purposes only, not to use as a drinking vessel..........that's fine.

Regards

Nile

nickj_2

AlwaysSomething wrote: »

Put it in the microwave if there's no metal in it. A minute should boil away all the moisture.
We will probably get a raft of people now saying that if you run a microwave empty it's very dangerous, and a black hole will open and swallow the universe. If this bothers you, put a small cup of water in the microwave too. The steam should evapourate from the decanter before the cup of water boils.

it's just not worth the risk :rotfl:

gibson123

Balance it on top of a wad of kitchen towel on a windowledge that will do the trick

Avoriaz

gibson123 wrote: »

Balance it on top of a wad of kitchen towel on a windowledge that will do the trick

But be prepared to end up with a pile of dry but shattered glass fragments when a cat or a breeze or an opened window knocks it off. :eek:

I drain ours upside down for a while and then put a piece of paper kitchen roll inside, using a long thin skewer to move it around to soak up the last few drops of moisture.

The paper is easily removed with the skewer.

I then leave it in a warm place for a few hours.

Torry_Quine

Put kitchen roll in and use something long and thin to get into all the corners.

Jonesya

How valuable is it?

You could warm it up gently in the oven like they do for sterilising jam jars. I did it with some (cheap) narrow-necked salt and pepper pots, put them in cold into a cold oven, heated them all up to >100 deg C, then left them to cool gently.