pastry brush and clothes prop help please!

savingqueen

Hi everyone,

I would like some recommendations from you lovely peeps please!

My clothes prop has broken, the last of several and I'm fed up buying new ones. Any suggestions for a decent clothes prop that lasts a decent length of time?

Ditto with pastry brushes, the hairs keep coming off mine. Any suggestions for decent pastry brushes?

TIA
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FairyPrincessk

I've got a silicone pastry brush which seems fairly sturdy. Plus, I feel like I can get it cleaner.

nuttyp

I made the mistake of buying the metal retractable ones from the cheap pound style shops. After one winter they had rust on them, so not suitable to be near white clothing. If you can find a wooden one, that would be the best type, it usually just hada v shape cut out the top of a long length of wood. Maybe make one yourself??

SilverBird_2

I have a couple of pastry brushes that have silicone "bristles" and they work very well. Also, they're very easy to clean. From memory they came from one of the door-to-door catalogues but they sell similar ones at Lakeland. No doubt you'll find something suitable via a search engine, or perhaps in one of the £ shops?

As to clothes props, I was also fed up of having to replace these. I now use two wooden clothes props bought in a local hardware store several years ago. They are simple in design - two pieces of wood with a metal sleeve that allows for the length of the prop to be adjusted and then held in place by a butterfly type screw. Otherwise, perhaps you could buy a suitable piece of wood and cut a v-shaped notch into one end.

madnotstupid

my pastry brush is the smallest one out of a pack of paint brushes - unused for painting same as I used as a young chef in most professional kitchen 20 years ago

foxgloves

Saw two very good quality sillicone pastry brushes in charity shop at the weekend....always worth having a look in charity shops for odds & ends of kitchen equipment.

Emm-in-a-pickle

I second the silicone brush too - loads of uses in cooking, and much easier to keep clean. I`ve seen them all over the place in supermarkets and wilko`s, Home Bargains, etc. Also love silicone spatulas.
Clothes props - I`ve got a telescopic metal one (from local hardware shop) and an ancient wooden one with a bent nail at the top (from local timber merchant). Left outside and sometimes found lying in the grass/weeds, both can get a bit grotty but still usable. The wooden one sometimes has slugs & woodlice al over it when picked up off the ground, but they soon leave on a good drying day when the prop is picked up again!

sonastin

Another vote for the silicon pastry brush. I gave up on bristles as they always shed all over the food.

As for clothes props, my grandad was a tanker driver for BP so growing up, all our clothes props were made from oil tanker dip-sticks! I have a rotary drier now so haven't got an excuse to inherit a length of dip stick yet.

midnightraven3

another vote for a silicone pastry brush
i got mine free from jack daniels
(then someone pointed out its meant to brush their sauce on BBQ items:o)

its only an inch wide
**shrugs**

Elliesmum

madnotstupid wrote: »

my pastry brush is the smallest one out of a pack of paint brushes - unused for painting same as I used as a young chef in most professional kitchen 20 years ago

Err me too (however I'm not a professional chef). I have also been known to use one of the children's chunky painting brushes as well :eek:

EM x

juliettet

I have three clothes props made when I had a new fence put up. they are very sturdy and everyone laughs but they cost nothing. I just re stain them when I do the fence.