Over the last 10 years years of divorced, single guy living I’ve carved out a comfortable little routine in my kitchen cleanups. But one thing was always missing. A decent bottle brush! They would always break, or if a wire shaft model, get all bendy, and the nylon bristles would wimp out. I wanted a brush I could really use with some power, and one with a long handle that would get into the bottom of my tall Calphalon pots. I needed a powerhouse bottle brush that would put up with rugged scrubbing!
A few months ago I was at the supermarket doing my usual wandering the aisles looking for interesting stuff grocery shopping, and in the cleaning supplies section next to the wimpy, skinny little bottle brushes there was this HUGE, high tech looking bottle brush hanging up with a nice long handle. I grabbed it and threw it in the cart without reading any of the little attached tag, becasue I knew this was what I had been looking for!
When I got this bad boy home I tore off the tag and got to work. It was magnificent! The elongated dome shaped head made cleaning out tea and coffee cups and travel mugs a 5 second job! BAM! It went through the dried tomato sauce at the bottom of my deepest pots like nobody’s business. I was even big and rugged enough to give the whole sink a scrubdown after putting the dishes in the dishwasher!! Wow! Where have you been all my life megabrush?!!
I was so impressed I out up a little screw in hook above the sink so this high tech marvel was always at the ready! I’d been using it for a few months and while washing some dishes one evening was thinking to myself that if they could improve bottle bruses like this, why can’t they improve toilet brushes with their weak, bendy wire oval heads and… and… I looked at my wonder brush and the brush looked back at me (with a little brush smile I think). I looked at it again… naaahh … couldn’t be.
Out of curiosity, what’s the diameter on that brush head? If it actually fits in most drinking glasses without smashing up/back the bristles, then it certainly is a bottle brush - but with unfortunate bristle coloration. If it’s around 5", then… um, it’s one of those bottle brushes you shouldn’t let other people see. Because… they’ll be jealous of your spectacular find, that’s why. Yup.
astro, you don’t by chance live in an AMRI apartment complex, do you? Because that’s my exact sink and countertop.
And you definitely need to hide that when guests come over, not because you don’t want them to see it, but you don’t want them *using * it for its intended purpose when you’re not paying attention. :eek:
