When we fill the kettle with sticky sports drinks or make amino acids, it will become a hotbed of bacteria and molds. Through several cleaning techniques, you can keep your kettle clean, avoid mildew, and use it longer.
8 tips for you to clean the sports kettle easily
1. Warm water and detergent
With warm water and detergent to clean, any general detergent, detergent can.
2. Brush with a brush
Most kettles have small openings, so a long handled brush, like a bottle brush, can reach the inside and bottom. It's easier to remove the sticky residue and mold in the kettle with a brush, which can't be washed out only by flushing.
3. Do not use vegetable cloth
Generally, the green vegetable cloth for washing utensils will scratch the kettle, but it is easier to hide dirt.
4. Wash the lid
When drinking water, the liquid must pass through the suction nozzle, so don't forget to clean it; it is recommended to put some detergent in the kettle, and then press the kettle to let the detergent flow out of the suction nozzle.
5. Wash every time you use it
Just as you wash your glass every time you use it, so should the bicycle kettle. Even if you only drink water, you may leave residue in the suction mouth of the kettle because of sweating or eating. It is easy to get moldy. Therefore, you should flush water at least once every time.
6. No strong Lotion
If you feel you need a stronger rinse, such as bleach, the kettle is almost ready to be thrown into the recycling bin. And if it's not washed clean, it may contaminate the kettle.
7. Lose when you should
Although the water bottle is washed regularly, it is inevitable that the kettle will still contain dirt after a long time of use. If the visual inspection shows that the internal dirt is not easy to remove, it is almost time to replace the kettle.
8. Let the water dry
After washing each time, remember to open the lid upside down, let the water dry naturally, so as to avoid mold breeding. Don't cover the bottle before it's dry.
Key points of purchasing sports kettle
1. The key to "strong and durable" is the material and wall thickness of the pot
The material of sports kettle is pure aluminum. As a big country of aluminum products, China has a complete range of products. In terms of material selection, different manufacturers have different materials. 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, which is 0.7mm in general. Because it is very difficult for ordinary consumers to distinguish the wall thickness of sports water bottles, some manufacturers will reduce the wall thickness of sports water bottles by opportunistic means in order to reduce the cost, and some manufacturers even reduce the wall thickness to 0.5mm. An intuitive feeling of judging the thickness of a kettle wall is that if it is held in hand, the weight of a kettle with reduced thickness will be lighter.
If the purity of aluminum used in sports kettle is not high, or the wall thickness is shoddy, it is easy to sink, break or even burst due to collision or falling. Generally, the higher the purity of aluminum material used in sports kettle, the higher the wall thickness, the better the strength and toughness of sports kettle, and the stronger the ability of anti-collision and impact. Of course, the better the quality, the higher the cost and price will be.
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 problem of isolation: the water, juice, milk, coffee and other drinks in the sports kettle are isolated from the aluminum pot.
The composition of the inner coating of the sports kettle is more than 20% resin, 1% additive and the rest is solvent. The most important determinant of the quality and safety of sports water bottles is whether the internal coating materials are safe and will not cause harm to human health. In addition, whether the spraying quality of the internal coating in the kettle is uniform, adheres firmly, and reaches the necessary thickness, so as to ensure the reliability of the separation between beverage and aluminum kettle.
Under the pressure of fierce export competition, in order to reduce costs and increase competitiveness, most domestic manufacturers choose low-cost coating materials, and limited by scale and strength, their equipment and technology are difficult to ensure the spraying quality of sports kettle inner coating.
The internal coating of sports kettle must meet the requirements of food grade hygiene. However, due to the lack of supervision and testing, there are still some problems in the internal coating of domestic sports kettle products, except for a few large-scale manufacturers.
Generally, the lid of a sports kettle is composed of a lid and a gasket. In the process of use, because the quality of the general sports kettle is not hard, the gasket will be squeezed too tightly for a long time, the cold or hot temperature factors will stick to the spout part of the kettle, and even leave the lid, which will bring trouble to use, and sometimes it will be lost, which will affect 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 depends on the fit between the screw thread of the cap and the spout. If the coincidence degree is not high enough, water leakage may occur in the normal use process, which will bring a lot of inconvenience to the use. Many people must have had some unpleasant experience in this respect.
In addition, almost all sports kettle spout thread edge is sharp, although scratch fingers and lips are not many cases, but still occasionally occur. A good sports kettle will have a more humanized processing and processing, that is, the edge of the thread will be made into an arc, so as to completely eliminate the possibility of scratching fingers and lips even at a very small probability.
