In all seriousness, that thing does make for a kickass “bottle” brush. I might just have to get me one of those!
But don’t despair about using a toilet brush on your dishes. If friends try to point and laugh at you, just point them here, where the same style and shape brushes are referred to as “Multi-Purpose Brushes,” and are recommended (bolding mine) “for cleaning a variety of commercial kitchen equipment with rounded surfaces such as, steam kettles, vats, Cateraide Beverage Servers, TrimLine Beverage Dispensers, pots, pans, crocks, and tanks.” The one described as having a 16" handle and 3" round bristles appears to be about the same size as the one you’re using.
Yours is prettier, though, and has that nifty bendy thingy, so actually, I like yours better!
Keep it in your kitchen…but don’t be surprised if your friends start calling you Asstro…
(Thanks for the OP, it cracked my baby-bottle-cleaning self up!)
De Nile isn’t healthy? I know, I grew in Khartoum as a foreign service brat, and onchocerciasis was a terrible plague for people that worked on the river. But what does that have to do with my bottle brush?
I’m with you there BubbaDog! I might never get it back after the discover what a powerhouse cleaner it is!
You need to get your keyboard keys checked out swampbear, some of your keys are transposing, the word “bottle” is coming out as “toilet” in your post. Might be a virus!
Using your mighty bottle brush as a toilet brush? How unorthodox! But as you say, “Whatever works”!
For stubborn residues in hard-to-reach places in a bottle, you can drop in a length of cheap brass chain (the stuff with the links made from flat material pressed and folded is absolutely ideal) - add a little water and detergent, replace the stopper (or cover with your hand), shake and swirl vigorously and the chain will scrape away the dirt.
Ya know… I too, have complained that I couldn’t find a sturdy enough brush for dishwashing, and I have some tall narrow glasses that even my tiny child sized hands won’t fit into… Hmmm, Rubbermaid you say?
Just to hammer this home, I took this and this at work. Even though the price tag photo is a little blurry, it says “bowl brush”. It’s definitely a toilet brush, dear. Our bottle brushes are on aisle 2, with the kitchen things. This is on aisle 11, between the plungers and the dustpans.
It has completely made my night that a fellow Doper actually took digital photos of various species of household brushes at his workplace to help a brother Doper out.
I like bottle brushes that come with their own decorative holders. You know – bottle brush in a penguin holder, bottle brush in a frog holder, bottle brush in a flamingo holder. Tres chic! But they do take up an awful lot of space on the kitchen counter.
I have a brush just like yours, but at my house it’s a dog toy. I haven’t yet found an aceptable place to keep a bristly brush with a long plastic or wooden handle where the dog doesn’t eventually get it.
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The ads for the new flushable toilet brushes annoy me. The ads imply that one’s toilet brush is crawling with fecal bacteria. Since most people clean the toilet with a fairly strong disinfectant, the brush bristles should be sterile after use. Perhaps what the ads are really saying is that their own product (Lysol) doesn’t do an adequate job of disinfecting the bowl and brush.
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Oh my! I happen to hide my toilet brush in a closet as I don’t think it really adds to the decor. Well I guess my mom-in-law couldn’t find it when she meddlesomely wanted to clean my toilet one day. :rolleyes: So for Christmas that year she got me 2 toilet brushes, one for each bathroom. Yeah, she’s just like Marie on Everybody Loves Raymond. Anyway I really wish I had hung them over my kitchen sink. THAT wuld have been precious to have seen her reaction.
BTW those flushable toilet brushes look like they are made of toilet paper! Oh I bet it really scrubs well. I thought the same about them putting down their own product.
