[Sca-cooks] Re: nasty-tasting thermos - OOP

[Stacy Morris]

My Father carried on of those thermos's for years.
What we always did to clean it was use boiling water
with a teaspoon of vanilla extract added to it after
the baking soda. It seems to neutralize alot of the
problems with the soda wash.
--- kerrimart at mindspring.com wrote:
> You can also try hot vinegar.  You know how you
> clean out coffee makers by
> running vinegar through it?  Don't see why it
> wouldn't work with a decanter.
>
> Vitha
>
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:57:10 -0500 Phlip
> <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
>
> > Try letting them soak with a couple of
> > eggshells in them. The eggshells will
> > absorb a lot of the nasty flavors. It's what I
> > use when I clean up metal
> > percolaters.
> >
> > Phlip
> >
> > > Well, this IS related to food...
> > >
> > > I often take along a thermos or two of coffee
> > to events, since I tend to
> > get
> > > caffeine-deprivation migraines (no fun!)
> > I've used and broken many
> > standard
> > > vaccuum-bottles, and then got two steel ones,
> > which bounce rather than
> > > shatter.  I always rinse them out and soak
> > with baking soda and rinse very
> > > well again after use.
> > >
> > > Recently, however, I've found that the coffee
> > develops a really nasty
> > taste
> > > after being in the thermos a couple of hours.
> >  Sharp, acrid...  I have
> > been
> > > extra careful about rinsing out the baking
> > soda, and I never use regular
> > > soap.
> > >
> > > Has anyone any suggestions for curing this
> > problem, or should I just throw
> > > them out and buy new ones?  The remaining
> > glass-bottle thermos doesn't
> > seem
> > > to have this tendency.
> >
> >
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