Getting rid of Redbull in a container

[tinman0]

This sounds daft, but last year whilst on S2N, I put Redbull in my Tescos hand thermos thing cup. They cost £5 and keep your tea warm for hours. Seriously, 90 minutes after putting a cup of tea in the thermos thingy I burnt my tongue it was still so hot.

Anyway, I digress. At one of the stops, I put Redbull into the Tesco thermos thingy and since then I have not been able to get the wretched taste of it out ever since. Nothing I do gets rid of the Redbull taint.

Anyone any ideas?

I am seriously thinking about wet&dry the damn thing to get it out of the plastic.

[Rude-boy]

Have you tried denture cleaning tablets?

[angrys3owner]

bleach!... then maybe wash it out a few times

[wedge girl]

Rinse it out with a solution of bicarbonate of soda.

[simpo two]

Avoid cardamom seeds too - they do the same thing! The flavour seems to absorb into the glass.

[Trooper2]

wedge girl said:

Rinse it out with a solution of bicarbonate of soda.

I've used that for years on my bicycling water bottles and Camelback, works great!

[tinman0]

Right, that'll keep me out of trouble for the afternoon.

Any ideas on how to get rid of the foul smell in my washer bottle on the car? Its an old car so the water at somepoint has turned the plastic. Oven cleaner cured it for a few months but the "smell" is back....

[wanty1974]

White vinegar is a wondeful thing for such uses. Very very good at getting rid of smells.

[catretriever]

tinman0 said:

They cost £5

think you answered your own question there

[rooster]

bicarbonate of soda mixed with a little water, works every time.

[2 Smokin Barrels]

rooster said:

bicarbonate of soda mixed with a little water, works every time.

......did it work on your wheels then?

[tinman0]

catretriever said:

tinman0 said: They cost £5 think you answered your own question there

I'm probably alone here but hear me out.

I'm not tight. If its broken I'll pay out and get a new one, whatever it is.

However, when I buy something I get alot of satisfaction by making it last, and last and last. I cannot buy something and disguard for something so trivial as the small odour it makes when I haven't exhausted all my options.

I can also not buy anything that won't get used. If I buy something, it must be for a good reason and I will make it work whilst its in my possession.

I bought a handheld GPS 3-4 years ago just to show I could buy something totally pointless that I could never find a use for.

It goes with me everywhere, and since picking up a car for S2N that has a randometer where the speedo should be - its found even more use.

I have a London A2Z that i bought when I first passed my test 17 years ago. Its gone brown, doesn't have Limehouse Link on it, and is currently in 7 parts in the glovebox. But it still does the job I need it to.

Its just me.....

[B17NNS]

T Cut

[Tuna]

tinman0 said:

Any ideas on how to get rid of the foul smell in my washer bottle on the car?

I have to ask... WHY are you sniffing your car washer bottle?

[UKBob]

Insert one dead rat, put container in the sun, and leaving for two months to decompose. It will be impossible to taste the red bull residue when complete

[catretriever]

tinman0 said:

I'm probably alone here but hear me out. I'm not tight. If its broken I'll pay out and get a new one, whatever it is. However, when I buy something I get alot of satisfaction by making it last, and last and last. I cannot buy something and disguard for something so trivial as the small odour it makes when I haven't exhausted all my options.

that's fair enough, and obviously I can't factor in the amount of satisfaction you generate for yourself, but for me if it took more than say 20mins then it becomes a false ecomony

[tinman0]

Tuna said:

tinman0 said: Any ideas on how to get rid of the foul smell in my washer bottle on the car? I have to ask... WHY are you sniffing your car washer bottle?

hard not to when you wash the windscreen. admittedly its only bad for the first few seconds before you pass out.

[Tuna]

tinman0 said:

hard not to when you wash the windscreen. admittedly its only bad for the first few seconds before you pass out.

OK, suddenly that makes sense. Mine always smells great, cos I put in plenty of the evil screen wash stuff and I assume that kills all other funny smells dead.

[Pigeon]

You say it's an old car... is it old enough not to suffer from the infuriating design deficiency of modern cars that it's impossible to take the washer bottle out? On a properly-designed car all you have to do is take off the lid with the pipe going through it and lift the bottle out of the clip, but modern cars tend to have been designed by someone with a brain the size of a peanut and you can't get the bottle out without hacking the car apart with an angle grinder.

I reckon on taking them out every couple of months and giving them a jolly good swill out with boiling water. This cleans out any gunk and kills off the bacteria which eat soap and turn it into something that makes your windscreen go all smeary. When I refill them I don't use that crappy expensive blue stuff which tends to make the screen smeary anyway. A couple of drops of washing up liquid are more effective and much cheaper. Persil washing up liquid seems to be the best as it appears to contain an anti-smear compound akin to "rinse aid" as used by dishwashers.

[Tuna]

Pigeon said:

I reckon on taking them out every couple of months and giving them a jolly good swill out with boiling water. This cleans out any gunk and kills off the bacteria which eat soap and turn it into something that makes your windscreen go all smeary...

Hmm.. blue stuff doesn't seem to suffer from bacteria. My fiat has a washer bottle the size of some car's fuel tanks, I don't think I've needed to top it up in the last two years. Cleaning it every couple of months would waste a lot of screen wash Best also to use Rain-X on your screen (do the job well and the result is absolutely amazing) and the need for wipers/spray is much reduced.