jmcquown wrote:

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
Dumb Dora here has been making iced tea in a set of 2 very rigid
plastic lidded pitchers for several years. Still, over time, the tea
stains had built up, even with frequent dishwashering.

Yesterday I had an "A Ha!" moment and poured in a few ounces of
Clorox along with filling the pitchers to the brim with very hot
water. Five minues later, not a trace of tea stain. Put them
through a dishwasher cycle and good as new. Whatever kind of plastic
these are made of, they do not retain odor or taste of any contents
they've held, neither tea nor bleach.

But you probably already knew about this...

I had to stop Mom from running bleach through her coffee maker. The carafe
had some tough stains and bleach was all she could think of to clean it.
Um, you really don't want to be drinking that. White vinegar works a treat


Jill

The acid flush i.e. vinegar works better at removing hard water mineral
deposits, but there is nothing wrong with running bleach sanitizer
through the system now and then. If you have city water you're drinking
the bleach regularly anyway, and if you do a second cycle with plain
water to flush the system you'll have no residual anyway.