Contents:
- Simple methods of cleaning
- The most proven way
- Separate ways to combat odor
Imagine: you go for a walk or go on a trip and take a thermos of a fragrant drink with you, open it, and there is not your favorite, for example, exquisiteChinese green, and the usual unattractive bitter liquid. This can happen if you do not know how to clean the thermos from various types of raids. Any container designed for brewing and storing liquids must undergo proper cleaning after use, otherwise you run the risk of encountering an unpleasant odor and color on the walls of the vessel and spoil the taste qualities of your favorite drinks.
Any thermos, with a glass bulb inside or consisting of stainless steel( stainless steel), can contain on its walls an unnecessary remaining plaque. There are several proven ways to wash the container.
Simple ways to clean
- The simplest thing is to take a lemon. This method will only help with non-serious pollution from plaque, light sediment. Lemon should be cut into slices, pour water in a thermos bottle and leave overnight.
- With stronger draft, ordinary baking soda comes to the aid, which is in every house. Two or three tablespoons of soda mixed with half a glass of pearl barley or rice - your choice - poured over with boiling water and left inside under a closed lid. In this case, the croup serves as a sponge.
Tip
The container with this mixture should be filled with boiling water to the middle, and then tightly closed with a lid and shaken well.
- Rid of dishes from the presence of tea plaque will also help "Coca-Cola" or "Fanta".Any of these lemonades should be heated to a boil and left in a thermos for the night.
Tip
Do not cover the thermos lid with hot "Coca-Cola" or "Phantom" tightly.
We use vinegar or alcohol
Clean the dishes from the stainless steel from the plaque using ammonia. To do this, you will need to build something like a dropper for your thermos: liquid ammonia is poured into a plastic bottle, in which four small holes with long threads are inserted. The bottle is fixed vertically so that the ends of the threads are lowered into the thermos, so the alcohol will gradually flow into it along the threads. The whole construction is left until the morning.
Vinegar can also help get rid of the remains of tea or coffee on the walls.200 ml of water and a teaspoon of vinegar are left in a thermos for a couple of hours.
The most proven way
How to wash the thermos in record time? One of the most urgent and working methods to get rid of plaque is the use of such a tool as "Whiteness."The thermos is filled with a third of "Belize", the rest of the space is filled with boiling water. Now all this should be shaken carefully. After the procedure, the container can be cleaned with any detergent and rinse thoroughly with water.
Separate ways to combat odor
There are several tools that will successfully help the mistress remove any foreign smells from her favorite thermos.
- Lemon or citric acid .
The acid can be covered "by eye", pour boiling water and leave for an hour or, if you want to remove the lime scale, for the whole night. Lemon slices can be wiped the walls of the container, if it is wide enough, or also pour boiling water.
- Soda with vinegar .
Ingredients are taken in equal proportions( for an average thermos, 4 tablespoons of soda and vinegar will suffice).The resulting gruel is poured with boiling water or, if the container is made of glass, just hot water.
- Mixture of mustard with boiling water .
A few tablespoons of mustard powder are poured over with boiling water and left overnight.
It is also possible to put anything in a dry thermos for several hours that will absorb an unpleasant smell and significantly refresh the container. It can be a piece of dried black bread, a pair of peppermint tea bags or activated carbon powder. Even ordinary salt absorbs odors.
Thermos is not the kind of thing that you want to change every year. In order for this little friend and assistant to rejoice you for as long as possible, it is necessary to wash it after brewing tea or coffee, and it will serve you faithfully more than one season.
