I’ve done the bleach and that worked for me.
Shaker bottles fucking blow IMO. If you don’t keep proper care of them properly all the time they end up smelling like the deepest corners of your large intestine.
Basically what I do is after each use (if possible) rinse it with hot water, and soap. Then, when I’m at home I put it in the freezer till my next use.
This does two things:
microwave it.
the fact that it leaches out whatever is in the plastic can be used to your advantage. Put some water in it, do not put the top on, then microwave it to heat up the water. Should clear the smell up. (this also sterilizes sponges and dish rags, which is probably pretty good for your health)
[quote]MODOK wrote:
Better advice has never been given by a mortal man. The key folks is to REMOVE the LID after consuming the drink. If you can’t wash it out, still take the lid off. The residue gets crusty, but it will flake off really easily. A much, much worse fate is letting the lid stay on and it rotting in their. I once left one in my trunk all summer just to see what would happen. When I broke up with my then-girlfriend the lid was removed and the shaker thrown on her balcony. She later died from pulmonary trauma.
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LMAO!
Stone cold killer!
[quote]MODOK wrote:
NewDamage wrote:
Rinse with hot water and shake it dry and leave it to air dry WITHOUT THE LID ON.
I used a shaker I kept at work for years witout ever washing it with soap once this way…
…I think of it as keeping my immune system on its toes.
Actually this is probably a bad idea.
Better advice has never been given by a mortal man. The key folks is to REMOVE the LID after consuming the drink. If you can’t wash it out, still take the lid off. The residue gets crusty, but it will flake off really easily. A much, much worse fate is letting the lid stay on and it rotting in their. I once left one in my trunk all summer just to see what would happen. When I broke up with my then-girlfriend the lid was removed and the shaker thrown on her balcony. She later died from pulmonary trauma.
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LMAO!
I will never open a shaker bottle again that has been sitting closed for a couple of days…
After one time and it feeling like my eyes were burning out of my skull and me throwing up. I will just throw out the bottle.
I buy 750ml bottles of Evian or Vittel or whatever and use them for a week. I then chuck them out. I’ve found I get the shits too much from those “permanent” drinks bottles.
Wide-mouth nalgene bottles for the win.
Simple solution is just fill to the top with Coke. Let the acid kill everything in there. If that shit can scrub a truck engine clean, think of what it will do for your little shaker bottle.
I just used Clorox Kitchen Disinfectant spray- sprayed the shaker and 30 mins later, so fresh and so clean, clean…
OP you said you were a student, see if you can talk the Cafeteria staff at school or, if you have any friends that work at a restaurant have them run it through the sanitizer(industrial dishwasher) I do it to mine about 1 per month and I never get a stinky bottle.
[quote]thosebananas wrote:
i know this is hardly a big problem…
but ive found an old shaker in the back of my cupboard and it STINKS. i dont have dishwasher and no matter how hard i scrub it… it still stinks
any tips?[/quote]
throw it away and use mason jars (new).
Fill with lemon juice. Trust me, it works.
[quote]MODOK wrote:
NewDamage wrote:
Rinse with hot water and shake it dry and leave it to air dry WITHOUT THE LID ON.
I used a shaker I kept at work for years witout ever washing it with soap once this way…
…I think of it as keeping my immune system on its toes.
Actually this is probably a bad idea.
Better advice has never been given by a mortal man. The key folks is to REMOVE the LID after consuming the drink. If you can’t wash it out, still take the lid off. The residue gets crusty, but it will flake off really easily. A much, much worse fate is letting the lid stay on and it rotting in there. I once left one in my trunk all summer just to see what would happen. When I broke up with my then-girlfriend the lid was removed and the shaker thrown on her balcony. She later died from pulmonary trauma.
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You mean, ‘myocardial infarction’? 