Mighty wand of cleanliness

[beige_alert]

I went grocery shopping yesterday and picked up this:





No grime can now escape my mighty powers of scrubbing, no matter how tall and narrow the vessel!

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Looks pretty wimpy compared to the scum that I get on my glassware.

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Well, speaking as a chemist, there is a time for cleaning by harsh chemical means. Sodium hydroxide dissolved in methanol (forming methoxide) often works wonders. At the other end of the pH scale, nitric acid is great, but sometimes plain hydrochloric acid is all you need.

Speaking more practically, if you have hard-water deposits, acid is what you need. The Lime-A-Way-type products often work well, and if that doesn't do it, relatively dilute hydrochloric acid works really well.

[koriandre.livejournal.com]

I was going to say "I want one of these for work!", but then I realized the same people who won't rinse their dishes out now, wouldn't use this wonderful device anyway.

Oh, well. It's still cool!

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Right. If they won't even rinse, they won't scrub, even if the scrubber is brightly colored.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

The one you'd want for work would be much bigger, made of steel, and the extensions from the central ball would come to points rather than being flat; it's for the cow-orkers, not for the dishes they won't clean.