How to clean a thermos from a stainless steel inside?

Thermoses - very beneficial and practical, if you require long-term preservation of drinks or liquid dishes with the maintenance of a stable hot or cold temperature. But after a long period of storage, the problem of an unpleasant smell often arises, and with very frequent use, a scum. Once you are faced with this problem, you are wondering how to clean the thermos from the stainless steel inside? It is with this question that we will help you understand, because a clean and pleasantly smelling thermos brings more pleasure. The following tips are suitable for both anti-plaque and anti-odor control.

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Effective proven method

How to wash the thermos in a record time? One of the most urgent and, nevertheless, working methods that allows to eliminate the raid, is the use of a tool called "Whiteness":

1. Fill the thermos bottle with one third of the "Whiteness".
2. The remaining space is filled with boiling water.
3. Close and then shake the thermos.

Important! After carrying out this procedure, the thermos must be cleaned with absolutely any detergent and rinsed thoroughly with water.

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Separate ways to fight the musty odor of

There are several ways that will very successfully help you eliminate any foreign flavors from your favorite thermos.

Citric acid or lemon

In order not only to clean the thermos from the stainless steel inside, but also to rid it of a musty odor:

1. Fill in citric acid in the amount that you deem necessary.
2. Pour the boiling water and leave for 1 hour or else, if there is a need to remove the calcareous coating, leave overnight.
3. With lemon slices, wipe the inner walls of the thermos bottle if its parameters permit.
4. If the thermos parameters do not allow wiping, pour the thermos with boiling water and squeeze half a lemon into it.
5. Close the thermos lid and shake well.
6. After this, rinse in cool water.

Mixture of mustard and boiling water

Mustard powder in an amount of 2-3 st.l.pour boiling water and leave for 1 night. Also, you can put something in a dry thermos that will absorb unnecessary smells and significantly refresh the thermos. It can be:

• piece of dried black bread;
• several sachets of mint tea;
• powder from activated carbon.

Salt

Thermos is not the kind of thing that you want to change every year. In order for this little helper and friend to please you as long as possible, it is necessary to rinse it after brewing coffee or tea, and it will serve you faithfully for a season.

And if you forgot to make once and formed a touch, do the following to clean the thermos from the stainless steel inside:

1. Pour the brine in the thermos.
2. Shake well and set aside for a few hours.
3. After the time has passed, rinse the thermos with ordinary tap water.

Rice

To clean the thermos of tea spray, scale and other unpleasant phenomena that worsen the smell and taste of stored drinks,

1. Put into the thermos rice and soda in the amount of 2 tsp.
2. Pour the thermos with boiling water - half.
3. Close the lid as tightly as possible, shake your thermos several times.

If necessary, repeat the procedure several times.

Coca-Cola

"Coca-Cola" removes not only rust from the inside of the toilet bowl or inside the kettle, but also eliminates all foreign smells in the thermos. For its use:

1. Pour this drink into the thermos bottle.
2. Open the lid and put it overnight.

By morning you will not find any traces of smell, as well as plaque.

Ammonia alcohol

Clean the thermos, made of stainless steel, from the plaque possible with ammonia. For this action, you will have to build something like a dropper:

1. Pour ammonia into a plastic bottle, in which you will make several small holes.
2. Insert long threads into them.
3. Fix the bottle in an upright position so that the ends of the threads are lowered inward. Thus, alcohol will gradually drain inside it along the threads.

All this design is left until the morning.

Important! The ammonia can be replaced with vinegar - it also copes well with the problem, if it is necessary to clean the thermos from the stainless steel inside.

Baking soda and table vinegar

These substances will remove even the most established aromas. To do this:

1. Put the soda in a thermos, pour all with warm water.
2. The proportions to be observed are as follows: 1 tsp.soda for 200 ml of water.
3. Leave the resulting soda solution overnight.
4. In the morning just rinse with clean cool water.

Important! No less effective is the vinegar solution, which is able to eliminate odors, as well as all food residues. In order to prepare the solution, mix 200 ml of warm water with 1 tsp in your thermos bottle.vinegar. After you have mixed all the ingredients, leave everything in this form for several hours.

Reinforced method

In order to clean the thermos inside, you can immediately use both soda and vinegar:

1. Connect them inside the container - 3 tsp each.of each substance.
2. Then pour the mixture exactly with boiling water, and not with warm water.
3. Leave to effect for 50-60 minutes.

As a rule, the remains of tea leaves, as well as an unpleasant aroma, leave no trace after such a cocktail.

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How to prevent the formation of an unpleasant odor and tea rape?

• In order that you no longer have to wonder how to eliminate an unpleasant ambre, you must take care in advance to prevent it from appearing. Therefore, after you use your thermos, do not be too lazy to wash it from the inside.
• The flask must also be washed - this can be done with an ordinary dishwashing detergent. In the event that your hand can not get into the neck, use the hedgehog, which is specifically designed to clean bottles.
• Remainder of food remove immediately. This will not allow a variety of microbes to actively spread over the inner surface of the flask.
• After cleaning, always wipe the thermos dry. Do this so that the fungus of mold does not form inside.
• In order to protect yourself from the appearance of the fungus inside, put the thermos in a vertical position on a dry and clean towel.
• In the event that in the near future you do not plan to use the thermos, do not cover its cover excessively tightly, because it can lead to an unpleasant smell. It is better to clean the device of dust, rather than decide what means to remove the stench and mustiness.

We are confident that all our advice and recommendations will help you eliminate the scum, as well as the unpleasant odor from your thermos. Apply them as needed and you will always enjoy the pleasant taste of hot tea, coffee or any other drink that is filled in the thermos.