Lucky are the people in the Philippines. Most of the water refilling stations here pick up the containers from customer's home, clean, refill and deliver.
We have the option in the U.S. too. Some people take their 5 gallon jugs to the local grocery store that has a water filling station, others buy their water from a company that rents them a water cooler and brings them fresh jugs of water as it is needed.
THANK YOU BuzzFam! No baking soda? Another recipe I found online, is the VINEGAR, BAKING SODA, and use RICE kernels for the ABRASIVE part. Popcorn is probably better bc it doesn't soak up the liquid as fast, but rice is cheaper to buy? I keep, and save smallish beads, odds, and ends that I can use in my gallon water bottles. Anything that will fit inside the top opening/neck of bottles.
Thank you dear Lady, you're so kind to share this cleaning tip with us here on RU-vid, because two of our water jugs has algae in the bottom, really quite simple I guess we only have to dedicate some time to the task at hand. Also loved seeing your small fry help ya with the cleaning, thumbs up and greetings to your family and you from us here in Mexico! :)
Thanks I used rice, but will be using corn instead. They sell some type of salt in the water store. For $10.00 to clean the 5 gallon bottle. But its more cheaper, and save if you use natural ingredients. Thanks
This is so awesome .... and easy! Kind of makes me feel dumb for not thinking of it myself but I'm so glad I found your video. Thank you for sharing :) ❤ lots of love & thanks from Los Angeles
Miss Saydee, you aren't dumb bc you used Google to get the answer, like I just did! I thought there may be an INVENTION that uses a special tool to get inside bottles and scrubs them? Maybe that's dumb, but if I invented that it would be...SMART! (=
Just use hydrogen peroxide the natural cleaning. The chemical symbol H2O2 for hydrogen peroxide is very similar to water's H2O. The H2 represents two hydrogen atoms while the O2 represents two oxygen atoms (water molecules contain only one oxygen atom. i use it even to get rid of mold instead of bleach.
GREAT IDEA! Sadly, people tend to overlook the sanitizing benefits of hydrogen peroxide. While vinegar is great, H202 is equally as good if not better. Thank you for the reminder! It's always good to have options!
Word. I've heard it's the main ingredient in a product called Mold Control by Concrobium. If you look at the ingredients list on the package, it says something like 'other ingredients - 98%'. lol
Q: do you reuse the same Kernals between cleaning each jug? Or even rinse them and save them for later? Or are you useing a new bag between each every time?🤷🏻♀️
Thanks much. I never cleaned my bottle in my garage water dispenser. I just noticed a film of algae on around the neck of the bottle. I wonder how long that's been there? Anyways, I didn't have any popcorn kernels, but used a couple cups of rice and vinegar. It's nice and clean and I poured some vinegar into the dispenser and let it sit for a bit and then drained. Thanks for the tip.
Excellent video, thanks for the info. I like the idea of the popcorn as a(n) mild abrasive. I would like to add though. As mrblackwell142 below has said, food grade hydrogen peroxide is good also. I intend to do a final rinse with it myself as I have a gallon of it at 35%. It's used industrially where they handle food. Also though I'm not advising it, I've read that in a pinch water can be boiled then up to 8 drops of liquid bleach can be added per gallon for drinking, or foodgrade hydogen peroxide. However, for regular consumption, food grade HP should only be used with distilled water. As in the book "The one minute cure" by M. Cavenough. I watched this to learn how to keep my jugs clean long term cuz I've experienced water cut off 4 times in the last 25yrs and a back up supply is vital. Gots to have my coffee in the morn😅.
I have a degree in engineering not micro biology but I was told by the owner of a local environmental company, the people who test and treat homes with mold and other biologicals, that to get rid of mold you need to use ammonia. Bleach nor vinegar will do anything. The corn kernels you're using for abrasives is doing the most work, probably too much, on any surface mold by knocking it loose. Maybe if there was mold you're getting most of the visible bits and the content stays low enough for your use cycle. We are exposed to mold all the time but it's the type and concentration that is harmful. Bleach will take care of those organism that require oxygen. Mold spores do not need oxygen. They're like seeds and bleach does nothing to the outer shell. Once the conditions are right those spores will fire up and multiply. Vinegar is an acid, a chemical, and will kill and disinfect for almost any bad biological outside of mold spores. Other than ammonia the plastic is the main defense against mold. The mold has a hard time holding on to the plastic. Creating scratches with corn kernels, rice, even rough ice will create tiny grooves for things to grow. The safest way to sanitize would be to not let the bottle sit long between off the dispenser empty and cleaning. Using the same sanitation liquid used by beer and wine brewers of all sizes, Star San by Five Star. It's used to clean the equipment and bottling vessels (bottles, kegs, cans.... it goes in at a set ratio and you pour it out. It doesn't have to be rinsed when use at the correct ratio. I saw chemical free and wondered was the secret was. Apparently it's the chemical acid distilled vinegar. I hope everyone who watched and the people who created this video are safe and healthy. Water is important and it is worthwhile to be safe with anything holding and distributing anything people ingest.
I agree with the guy below. You are the prettiest water jug cleaner I’ve ever seen. Don’t tell your husband I said that. I’m 57 and can’t run as fast as I used to. 🤫
Great ideas, because I was sure thinking of anything else to use besides popcorn kernels. I would never waste food for cleaning, were going through hard times in this world and food can't be taken for granted.
Thank you for sharing this with us. I have used your cleaning with the corn and white vinegar too. And yes it does amazing job also. Again Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍👍
Thank you for sharing this powerful video! I appreciate your time you take to share! I will try this method! Greetings from Toronto Canada! God bless you!🙏❤️🙏
We just moved to georgia and our water quality here is god awful. We have to use the dispenser water to cook, clean, and drink. 😪 Couldnt even take baths while pregnant because the smell would make me gag., had to get a filtering showerhead.
Bleach IS sodium hydrochloride,which is what is in many municipalities drinking water.It is an excellent disinfectant and safe to use,as long as it’s rinsed out good. Any residual bleach will actually help keep refills fresh for longer.However there is NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS METHOD.
great video, and a awesome idea. I have 6 camping jugs that need cleaning. corn, vinegar, and I'm taking my grandkids to the soccer field. let them do the cleaning:)
Not a bad way to clean your water bottles, but pure 5% to 6% Sodium Hypochlorite bleach mixed with water is a better disinfectant and may kill other things that the acetic acid in vinegar won't kill. Contact time is important too. I'd let the bleach sit on the inner surface of the jugs for about 30 minutes. Afterwards rinse the jugs out really well with regular water and then rinse them with purified water three times. You just rinsed them with water that you said wasn't good to drink. Do you want those regular water residues left behind?
I don't know if popcorn really cleans. Anything unless they're going to serve as sponges that scrape around the gallon but it is ashame to waste good popcorn that one could pop and eat instead
I use the faucet water to wash dishes and rinse them! I do not use bottled water for that. I use the faucet water as little as I can. Sometimes you just have to do what you can with what you have!
Great video, and very helpful, except that the tap water used contaminated the bottle. It would be better to use water with the corn and then rinse with vinegar mixed with water.
@@audiophileman7047 Sure, all that is good, but I'm talking about sanitizing the bottles. Diluted vinegar is a great way to do that. Some people even use diluted bleach to sterilize. I've done that before, but I prefer vinegar over bleach.
My process would be a little dish soap to clean with something like corn or rice if there is visible stuff on the walls. Then sterilize with NSF 60 diluted bleach and a minimum contact time of 30 minutes. Then rinse thoroughly with potable water. Then finally triple rinse with purified water. That'll get your bottles very clean and sanitized with no unwanted residues. I prefer using Sodium Hypochlorite, because chlorine is a powerful oxidizer and it is a mainstay of the drinking water treatment industry. It will kill most microbes. Some sterilizers may not kill everything, so you have to be aware of which ones are removed with the one you're using. If you're concerned about protozoans (e.g., cryptosporidium), you will need something more than bleach. Hydrogen Peroxide is supposed to kill crypto. Not sure about vinegar and just what it works on and what it doesn't work on.
Does it matter if you use hot or cold water to rinse out the water jugs? I'm guessing cool water if you use a water filter on your sink to filter the water you don't want to drink. Because I've heard hot water can damage the filter over time. 🤷 Been a while since I've owned a water filter on a sink spigot. So feeling like I need a water filter eventually.
Wait! I also learned you can use bottled water or jugs of water to clean the bottles too. I know that's using more bottles than anyone wants to use, but if it's possibly cheaper than buying a water filtering device for the sink. 🤷 *Also, maybe leave any remaining water in the bottles that came in the bottle and then add the white vinegar and corn kernels. Then all you would have to worry about is maybe filter water from the sink or a jug of water to rinse out the 5gal jugs. 👍🏻
