Dishwashers won’t clean these gaskets if they’re washed while installed. Oh, and those silicone straws can come out of the dishwasher nasty too.
Dishwashers won’t clean these gaskets if they’re washed while installed. Oh, and those silicone straws can come out of the dishwasher nasty too.
I handwash silicone straws because I know no amount of automatic dishwashing will clean it.
How do you clean them, pipe cleaner?
I soak them in denture cleaner
They specifically make very special pipe cleaner-like cleaning instruments for these things. Often, the bottle may even come with it. Very handy
Edit: this is the one I have
Although I only ever drink water out of it, I do make sure to wash up the straw at least once a week.
Thing is, that the straw plugs into a gasket on the bottom of the lid and is at least partly silicon all the way through to the spout. I make sure to run the cleaner brush thing through that very regularly as well. Sometimes several times a week just to make sure it’s always clean.
My wife was using her tumbler for just plain water. She would rinse and reuse each day. She got a stomach bug and I was getting her water and noticed the mold on the threads of the screw top. It was so hard to see since the lid was black too.
Even if it’s just used for water, clean them thoroughly and regularly.
I sanitize my water bottles in the sun. After washing them I put them on a south-facing windowsill and let the UV light kill every last living microbe that might be lurking in the crannies. (it’s always the crannies that get you, the nooks are usually fine)
Good advice. I may have oversimplified the care I take, but everyone should regularly keep clean any contained from which they eat or drink.
Yup, the pack of straws I bought came with a tiny bottlebrush thingy like the other comment linked.