Lou Decruss wrote:

>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> CLR will get the glass sparkling clean, but I don't think that it is
>> food safe.
>
> CLR is advertised for cleaning coffee pots so it's probably ok. But I
> don't think it's very powerful from my experience.


Are you talking about the spray or the concentrate. I buy jugs of it
once in a while and find it to be quite powerful. I have used it for my
coffee makers and it cleans them right out, but I have to run gallons of
water through to get rid of the stuff. I have used it to clean the
glass coffee pots. I add a little CLR and a bit of water and swish it
around and the glass sparkles.

I also use it to clean the heating pot on my water distiller. Again, I
have to rinse it many times to remove the CLR. I had a greenish stain on
the bottom of a bone wash basin in one bathroom My wife thought I had
spilled paint in it. I put aboit an ounce of CLR in it, added a little
water and the stain disappeared almost instantly.