When we fill the kettle with sticky sports drinks or make amino acids, it will become a hotbed of bacteria and mold. Through several cleaning techniques, we can keep your kettle clean, avoid mildew and use it longer.
8 moves to make it easy for you to clean the sports kettle
1. Warm water and detergent
Use warm water and detergent to clean. Any general detergent and detergent can be used.
2. Brush with a brush
Most kettles have small openings, so use a long handle brush like a bottle brush to brush to the inside and bottom. Brushing with a brush will make it easier to remove the sticky residue and mold in the kettle. It can't be washed off only by flushing.
3. Do not use vegetable melon cloth
Generally, the green vegetable and melon cloth for washing tableware will scratch the kettle, but it is easier to hide dirt.
4. The cover should be washed
When drinking water, the liquid will pass through the suction nozzle, so don't forget to clean it; It is suggested to put some detergent in the kettle, and then press the kettle to let the detergent flow out of the suction nozzle.
5. Wash it every time you use it
Just as you wash the glass every time you use it, so should the bicycle kettle. Even if you only drink water, you may leave residue in the suction nozzle of the kettle due to sweating or eating, which is easy to get moldy, so you should flush the water at least once at a time.
6. No strong Lotion
If you feel you need a stronger wash, such as bleach, the kettle can almost be thrown into the recycling bin. And if it is not washed clean, it may pollute the kettle.
7. Throw it when you should
Despite regular flushing, the kettle will inevitably hide dirt after long use. If the visual inspection shows that the dirt inside is not easy to remove, it is almost time to replace the kettle.
8. Let the moisture dry
After washing each time, remember to open the cover and put it upside down to let the water dry naturally to avoid mold breeding. Never put the lid on the bottle before it is dry.
Purchase points of sports kettle
1. The key to "durability" is the material and wall thickness of the pot
The material of sports kettle is pure aluminum. As a large country of aluminum products, China has a complete range of products. In terms of material selection, various manufacturers are different. Many domestic kettle brands use pure aluminum with purity of 99.5%, but the actual situation is not the case. Even most manufacturers use recycled aluminum.
Another factor is the wall thickness of the kettle. Generally, the wall thickness of the sports kettle is 0.7mm. As it is difficult for ordinary consumers to identify the wall thickness of sports kettles, some manufacturers will opportunistically reduce the wall thickness of kettles to save materials in order to reduce costs, and some manufacturers even reduce the wall thickness to 0.5mm. An intuitive feeling to judge the thickness of the kettle wall is that if you hold it in your hand, the weight of the kettle with reduced thickness will be lighter.
If the purity of aluminum used for sports kettle is not high, or the wall thickness is cut corners, it is easy to sag, break or even burst due to collision or falling in use. Generally, the higher the purity of aluminum used for sports kettle and the wall thickness meets the standard, the better the strength and toughness of sports kettle and the stronger the ability to resist collision and impact. Of course, the better the quality, the higher the cost and price.
2. The key to "safety and reliability" is the inner coating of sports kettle
As we all know, excessive intake of aluminum will cause great harm to human health. The inner coating of sports kettle solves the isolation problem: isolate the water, fruit juice, milk, coffee and other drinks in sports kettle from the aluminum kettle.
The inner coating of kettle sports kettle is composed of more than 20% resin, about 1% additives, and the rest are solvents. The most important determinant of the quality of the sports kettle and whether it is safe and reliable is whether the raw materials of the inner coating are safe and will not cause harm to human health. In addition, whether the spraying quality of the inner coating inside the kettle is uniform, firmly adhered and reaches the necessary thickness, so as to ensure the reliability of the isolation between the beverage and the aluminum kettle.
Under the pressure of fierce export competition, in order to reduce costs and increase competitiveness, most domestic manufacturers choose low-cost coating raw materials, and limited to scale and strength, its equipment and technology are difficult to ensure the spraying quality of the inner coating of sports kettle.
The inner coating of sports kettle must meet the hygienic requirements of food grade. However, due to the lack of supervision and testing, at present, except for several large-scale manufacturers, there are almost problems in the inner coating of a large number of cheap products flooding the market in domestic sports kettle products.
Generally, the lid of a sports kettle is composed of a lid and a washer. In the process of use, because the quality of the general sports kettle is not hard, the washer will stick to the spout because it is screwed too tightly and squeezed for a long time. Due to cold or hot temperature factors, it will even be separated from the lid, causing trouble in use, and sometimes it will be lost, affecting the reuse of the kettle.
A good sports kettle adopts secondary injection molding technology, which directly integrates the gasket and the lid, which not only achieves a good sealing effect, but also fundamentally eliminates the possibility of separation.
The tightness of the spout part depends on the degree of coincidence between the cap and the spout thread. If the coincidence degree is not high enough, water leakage may occur in the process of normal use, which will bring a lot of inconvenience to the use. Many people must have had some unpleasant experiences in this regard.
In addition, the edge of the thread of the spout of almost all sports kettles is sharp. Although there are not many cases of scratching fingers and lips, it still happens occasionally. A good sports kettle will have more humanized processing and treatment, that is, make the edge of the thread into an arc, so as to completely eliminate the possibility of scratching fingers and lips even with a very small probability.