Hello all, Happy Friday!
I wash my son's cup all the time but I swear they are so hard to clean sometimes. I have hand washed them, with a bottle cleaner, and tried to put them in the dishwasher etc. It's a hit and miss but the plastic insert in them and the lid get gross at times and is hard to clean out and it drives me crazy!
How do you wash yours?
Get a different kind of sippy :) I had one like that. It wasn't worth all the effort to clean it. I toss mine in the dishwasher.
When we take the cup apart we have a cup/glass/Rubbermaid storage container...with hot water and some bleach in it. We rinse theinsert parts then put them in the hot bleach water.
Hubby does the dishes and he came up with the idea of using several Q-tips to insert inside them and clean them very well.
After he cleans on I would even drink out of it...lol.
If you're like us I'm sure you've fond one or two under the couch when you pulled it out to clean. We clean them the best we can with a bottle brush the do the hot water bleach mix. If that doesn't work after air drying then soak them in some baking soda water.
I decided to only buy take and toss cups after a few of those. They are about $.50 each and if they get lost it's not a big deal of any sort.
We get both kinds, the sippy kind and the straw kind.
My kids did straw cups instead of sippy cups but there are still inserts to slow the flow. We used nipple brushes to clean the hard to reach or small areas.
This is the one I purchased but there are others:
http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Browns-Natural-Cleaning-Brush/dp...
And for some of the crevices in the lid, I would turn the brush around and use the metal part to try to scrape off the residue.
I take the silicone inserts out and throw them in the dishwasher separately.
And when they get really nasty...we toss them.
we always separate the lid and the insert. we place them all in the top-rack dishwasher tote. we've never had a problem.
well, maybe a straw slipping through the tote holes ...
I don't really have a problem getting the cups clean, but I guess it depends on what kind you have. I remove the plug and put it in the silverware part of my dishwasher, then I put the lid and the cup on the top shelf. You could always try a bottle brush if you needed to clean the spout better.
M
