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Cleaning Stainless Steel Mugs
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NWGunner
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Location: South Seattle Joined: Thu May 2, 2013 Posts: 12475
Real Name: Steve
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So, the wife likes stuff in her morning coffee, whereas, I take mine black. As a result, over time, her stainless mug gets stains on the inside...not very attractive over time. I looked around for ways to get it clean, because nothing was working, and found a solution that worked beautifully.... In a nutshell, someone came up with a way of cleaning the inside of a steel tea kettle by putting a dishwasher pad in it, pouring boiling water in, & waiting a half an hour.... Soooo, since it wasn't a kettle, but just a steel coffee mug, I cut a tab in half, and put one in her travel mug, and one in mine... I boiled water, poured it in each 'til full, and decided to wait 45 mins... After 45 minutes, there was gunk floating, so I rinsed them, ran a sponge through, and both came out pristine I highly reccomended this. I used Finish Tabs, which have a plastic wrap around them, that I took off. Also, if you don't use tabs, the article says a 1/4 cup of dishwasher detergent works. Mind you, this is dish washer detergent, not dish detergent. Here's the article, the comments are good, too: http://www.simplyorganized.me/2012/08/h ... e-pot.html
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Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:42 pm |
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delliottg
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Location: Duvall Joined: Thu Mar 17, 2011 Posts: 4604
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Denture cleaning tabs work great too. We've got a couple of Stanley flasks we use for tea that slowly build up grunge. They're about due for another cleaning.
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Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:48 pm |
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NWGunner
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Good to know...whichever is cheaper & you have on hand, I guess
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Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:16 pm |
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delliottg
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NWGunner wrote: Good to know...whichever is cheaper & you have on hand, I guess Didn't know about the dishwasher soap trick, and I read about the dentures tabs. They're dirt cheap (like a buck or two for enough to last you the rest of your life, I think the box I bought had 40 tabs in it?). Plus there's no boiling of water, just drop them in and let them sit for an hour or so, then the accumulated crap mostly just rinses away, with a tiny bit of scrubbing. I should probably do it more often.
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Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:34 pm |
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golddigger14s
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I've used a splash of bleach, and topped off with water.
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quantsuff
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Location: central wa Joined: Mon Mar 21, 2011 Posts: 3554
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Bartender's friend and a cloth works great.
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Sun Nov 11, 2018 5:24 am |
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PMB
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As a young man in the USN I had a lot to learn about traditions and "sea routine." Most veterans are familiar with their branch's peculiar little practical jokes played on the new guy. For instance, sending the new guy for a bucket of steam from the steam chest.
Well, there are ways to really get under the skin of the E-7s and above as well. We had a particularly lazy and ah, kind of worthless EMC who always drank out of a coffee cup so terrifically stained with coffee that the stains had some dimension. One time on maneuvering watch I offered to wash it for him as I was heading up to pour a cup for myself. It was an honest and rather innocent suggestion. His snarl was visceral, "Don't you dare fucking wash my cup." Alright. I didn't understand why, but E5s normally follow E7s' directions on things like this. 2.5 months later as we were getting ready for the maneuvering watch back in to port, one of the other chiefs had a wicked smile as he handed me the EMC's cup and asked me to wash it. I did so.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth, as well as blue wall of hateful speech filled maneuvering for DAYS. The two chiefs who had put me up to it told me to NEVER admit that I had been the one to wash it, at least not while I was still in the service. Every time that he was on watch for the next two weeks (until my crew went on a short vacation) he kept a bitter, angry and resentful expression on his face.
Turns out that he had been saving that coffee stained cup since his first patrol on a submarine 12 years prior.
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:13 pm |
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AR15L
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PMB wrote: As a young man in the USN I had a lot to learn about traditions and "sea routine." Most veterans are familiar with their branch's peculiar little practical jokes played on the new guy. For instance, sending the new guy for a bucket of steam from the steam chest.
Well, there are ways to really get under the skin of the E-7s and above as well. We had a particularly lazy and ah, kind of worthless EMC who always drank out of a coffee cup so terrifically stained with coffee that the stains had some dimension. One time on maneuvering watch I offered to wash it for him as I was heading up to pour a cup for myself. It was an honest and rather innocent suggestion. His snarl was visceral, "Don't you dare fucking wash my cup." Alright. I didn't understand why, but E5s normally follow E7s' directions on things like this. 2.5 months later as we were getting ready for the maneuvering watch back in to port, one of the other chiefs had a wicked smile as he handed me the EMC's cup and asked me to wash it. I did so.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth, as well as blue wall of hateful speech filled maneuvering for DAYS. The two chiefs who had put me up to it told me to NEVER admit that I had been the one to wash it, at least not while I was still in the service. Every time that he was on watch for the next two weeks (until my crew went on a short vacation) he kept a bitter, angry and resentful expression on his face.
Turns out that he had been saving that coffee stained cup since his first patrol on a submarine 12 years prior. We all hated out Chief so bad that once we found out he was taking a certain day off we took his coffee cup, put it in a paper bag and smacked it into the cement wall. Then placed the bag on his desk. He was pissed when he saw all of us the next day..
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:37 pm |
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Old Growth
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Vinegar will usually eat anything off there to.
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:41 pm |
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L_O_G
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This whole thread is a lie.
We live in the same area and I see his rig at the bikini barista every morning.
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:48 pm |
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NWGunner
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L_O_G wrote: This whole thread is a lie.
We live in the same area and I see his rig at the bikini barista every morning. Nice try Even my wife knows I'm too damn picky about my coffee...
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:10 pm |
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Pablo
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Serious answer?
NaOH, sodium hydroxide, lye - cleans organic crud off stainless quite nicely.
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:15 pm |
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jukk0u
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More than 30 years ago as a student at the UW, I was waiting for a cashier or a food service attendant or something like that ... but I was standing waiting near the kitchen. There was a notice to the kitchen workers posted there from UW food services management which stated that workers who washed the stainless pots and pans were not to be overly aggressive at removing the discoloration.
The memo stated that it was much like the polymerized film that developed on cast iron cook wear, and over-zealous scrubbing would merely allow nickel and cadmium(?) from the stainless to leach into the foods.
Don't bitch at me. I didn't write it.
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:25 pm |
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Old Growth
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Pablo wrote: Serious answer?
NaOH, sodium hydroxide, lye - cleans organic crud off stainless quite nicely. This ^^^ I had a sink years ago that one side was plugged when I moved in. I filled it with drano and left it for a week. Never did eat the clog, I had to remove the pipe and poke it out. But the Stainless sink was BRIGHT and SHINY from the water/drano line down tho! Almost like it had been polished.
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:12 pm |
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cmica
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pic required.... tell here starlight black is the way shit just vinegar and baking soda or straight scotchbright to clean it PMB you'll never see my cup black is the new brown
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:40 pm |
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