Does anyone have any good methods for cleaning
bottles. Here's the deal. I have this great old-fashioned
glass milk bottle that i got at a local dairy when they
had a festival. I came with chocolate milk in it but I
have saved it and use it frequently for storing things
like lemonade or freshly squeezed oj. It has developed
a cloudy deposit on the bottom. It's not a problem as
far as usage goes but it bugs the heck out of me and I
want to make it all crystal-clear and shiny bright.

Now if it were large enough for me to get my hand in there
I would just take a Brillo pad or SOS pad and scour it.
However I can't do that so how do I clean it. In the past
I have had occasion to use bottle brushes of various sorts
and they are okay for some things but they would not work
for this. You can't apply enough force.

I thought of using coffee pot cleaner and checked into that
on the internet. There are many commercial cleaners but
many sites recommended things like vinegar, Alkaseltzer,
Polident, baking soda, and bleach. Do those things really
work?

Also, I have another bottle which is a tall think bottle
with a bale top. A friend gave it to me as a gift with
homemade flavored olive oil (some sort of herbs in it
as I recall). She painted stuff on the outside of the bottle
and I would really like to be able to keep it and possible
re-use it for something. The trouble is that I didn't use
up the olive oil fast enough and it got moldy (due no doubt
to the herbs not having been "sterilized" somehow). So I
have the same problem as with the milk bottle only worse
because the opening is even tinier.

So what do y'all think?

Thanks,
Kate

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Kate Connally
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Until you bite their heads off.”
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