Cleaning a Thermos

[Beefer]

What's the best way to clean a Thermos? I rinse it a couple of times with hot water, then add some soap and hot water, slosh it around a bit, rinse a few times, then add hot water and soap and let it sit. It's one of the older metal green ones (the only kind worth a darn IMO), and I love it, but I always feel like I'm drinking stuff that's years old, even though the coffee tastes fine.

 

[BWR1953]

Re: Cleaning a Thermos

I put mine with the opening down in the dishwasher. And I put the cup and cork on the top shelf of the dishwasher too. Works great!

 

[Florida]

Re: Cleaning a Thermos

A large bottle brush chucked into a drill! Bacteria and residue laugh at warm water and dish soap.

 

[Bob_VT]

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crushed ice and table salt........ agitate the heck out of it and repeat.......... then you can add a bit of bleach with ice and do it again........ I have cleaned my univac stainless steel one that way for years.

 

[mscher]

Re: Cleaning a Thermos

I use a bottle brush covered with baking soda. 2 years worth of truck-stop coffee crud, came right out.

 

[tx1961whaler]

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Hot water and baking soda, cap it and let it sit overnight, then just rinse it out.

 

[Boomyal]

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Squirt some oven cleaner into it. Slosh it around, dump it, then let hot water run into it for a few minutes.

Dump the hot water and leave it to drip and drain, upside, down til it dries.

 

[xxxflhrci]

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crushed ice and table salt........ agitate the heck out of it and repeat..

You beat me to it....That was the way I was taught to clean glass coffee pots when I got my first job working at a restaurant years ago. It works great.

 

[PiratePast40]

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Commercial espresso machine cleaner is just TSP and it works great. A lot cheaper to buy it at the hardware store than from the restaurant suppliers.

 

[Brewman61]

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At the burger joint I workded at way longer ago than I care to admit, when we boiled the coffe pots dry we swished some ice and a bit of bleach around, that did the trick. That was for the glass carafe's on our drip coffe machines.
It rinsed out with no detectable chlorine odor.

 

[Jerryh3]

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I use baking soda and vinegar to clean my stainless bottles.

 

[Bob_VT]

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baking soda and vinegar what are you making a kid's rocket

 

[MTboatguy]

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I use baking soda and vinegar to clean my stainless bottles.

Same thing I have always done with my stainless, you have to be aware though, you get to much in there, your going to have a mess in the kitchen and your wife might not like you very much, but it works very well, experiment outside in a plastic butter container to get the right mix and DON"T put the lid on the thermos!

 

[JRJ]

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My wife says she used coffee pot cleaner on mine, then rinsed several times.

 

[Jerryh3]

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baking soda and vinegar what are you making a kid's rocket

Sure. Add a little red food coloring in there and make a volcano.

 

[huntndakota]

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I use the baking soda and bottle brush. Then I fill it with boiling water and 1/4 cup bleach let it soak for 10 minutes then rinse out with hot water a couple of times. The bleach does final clean and sanitizes it.

 

[lncoop]

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You beat me to it....That was the way I was taught to clean glass coffee pots when I got my first job working at a restaurant years ago. It works great.

Okay, so I brought my dirty thermos in last night. My wife was in the kitchen and watched me dump in a bunch of crushed ice and rock salt. I put the lid on and gave 'er a good shake (thermos, not wife). Just as she was about to ask "What in the world are you doing?", which she frequently does with good reason, I rinsed it out and showed her the shinier than new lining. "Wow" she exclaimed. "Where'd you learn that trick?" I smiled. She said "Never mind."

 

[rbh]

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Does no one like the taste of ten+- years of coffee tar build up???

 

[kenmyfam]

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Does no one like the taste of ten+- years of coffee tar build up???

Could just be that you lose capacity with a 1/4" build up on the walls of the thermos

 

[Tim Frank]

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Does no one like the taste of ten+- years of coffee tar build up???

Sounds like everyone is cleaning out all the flavour....