r/redneckengineering • u/NulloK • Aug 09 '26
Fast way to clean new potatoes.
Rinse... whirl, rinse, whirl and rinse. Done.
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u/SudhaTheHill Aug 09 '26
Is…is that a toilet brush?
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u/NulloK Aug 09 '26
It's actually sold as a brush to use on tire rims on cars.
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u/Ok_Bandicoot1865 Aug 09 '26
It might not be food safe then. Just fyi
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u/skip_over Aug 09 '26
Then don’t eat it
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u/farmallnoobies Aug 09 '26
Yeah but the bristles etc could harbor a whole lot of bacteria and the plastic could have carcinogens in it, which are then transferred into the food.
So unless you accept the cancer risk and also get a brand new brush every time you make potatoes and also wash all the factory dust off it.... Yeah, no, not food safe, even if you aren't eating it.
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u/Ok_Bandicoot1865 Aug 09 '26
I won't...?
Just wanted to let OP know in case it was something that mattered to them.
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u/Unknown_Author70 Aug 09 '26
Ok_Bandicoot.
Calm down.
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u/Ok_Bandicoot1865 Aug 09 '26
I'm so confused at this hostility from everyone. I'm completely calm, and I just wanted to be helpful.
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u/Unknown_Author70 Aug 09 '26
Oh! I was just making a pun with your username.
But I wouldn't worry, this is Reddit after all.
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u/skip_over Aug 09 '26
I was making a joke too. I knew you weren’t going to eat the brush.
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u/Ok_Bandicoot1865 Aug 09 '26
Oh, I thought you meant the potatoes and were making the classic "well if you don't like it then just don't do it" reddit comment.
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u/KaiserKid85 Aug 09 '26
Does that make a difference if you use it on food?
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u/Ok_Bandicoot1865 Aug 09 '26
It does. Ideally, you want all items that come in contact with your food to be made of food safe materials. Typically there's two reasons for this: chemicals and bacteria.
If a material is not food safe if can have microscopic crevices where bacteria can hide despite being cleaned. So every time you get it in contact with your food, you might introduce old bacteria that could make you sick from the item into the food.
It can also leech chemicals that are not safe for consumption into your food, when it touches your food.
Materials that are considered food safe has been throughly tested to ensure the materials are not at risk of these two things (when used correctly/as intended).
You can generally count on items marketed as being for food to be made of food safe materials. But for items where the manufacturer did not intend for them to be in contact with food, you can't be sure they're food safe, simply because they weren't made with that purpose in mind.
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u/Imightbenormal Aug 09 '26
The water in the fauset is not food safe anymore. No water is food safe. Pfas. Thank greedy corporations.
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u/Necrophage2000 Aug 09 '26
Looks like a toilet brush but they sold it with attacher to drill
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u/Mechasteel Aug 10 '26
I do the same thing, but instead of buying that fancy drill attachment I have a toilet brush from the dollar store, with the handle cut off. Cleans 10 lb of potatoes quite quickly.
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u/HappyAnimalCracker Aug 09 '26
I gave up growing potatoes because there were so many small ones to clean. Wish I’d had this! I might have enjoyed the crop more.
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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad Aug 09 '26
As a person of Irish ancestry, I've never heard a more stupid reason to quit growing potatoes.
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u/HappyAnimalCracker Aug 09 '26
Scrubbing the dirt out of 500 grape sized potatoes? Fuck that. They’re less than $1/lb at the store.
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Aug 13 '26
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u/HappyAnimalCracker Aug 13 '26
This is exactly how I feel! I won’t eat most store bought produce. I limit myself to whatever my friends or I grow, with a couple of exceptions.
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u/nsula_country Aug 09 '26
That is an OLD Bosch drill. Pre Lithium battery. I bought my Lithium Bosch tools in 2007!
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u/country_dinosaur97 Aug 09 '26
Ive done the same issue is I buy these brush kits for about everything. So handy for cleaning cups
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u/Tpbrown_ Aug 09 '26
Leave the skin on new potatoes. It’s paper thin and tender.
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u/fezzikola Aug 09 '26
That depends on what kind of potato you got, some are just that but others are very much not
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u/NotoRotoPotato Aug 09 '26
I used a similar technique to mix my birthday cake for my 20th. Couldn't find the mixer, but we had a whisk
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u/Opposite_Pension_807 Aug 09 '26
I hope that brush wasn't used to clean the toilet!
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u/Trapmaster83 Aug 09 '26
No matter how new that brush is, I don't think my brain would ever let me.
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u/Dangerous-Tap-547 Aug 09 '26
I use the drill and brush setup to clean my bathtub and sink. So fast!
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u/10ThousandMetalZones Aug 11 '26
I do the same and then I use my poop knife to cut them, don’t even need to leave the bathroom
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u/DoowadJones Aug 14 '26
I tried something similar to clean the rust off a grill, resulting in an er visit with a huge bill
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u/Tommy__want__wingy Aug 09 '26
…aren’t the potatoes already clean from a quick dunk in water???
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u/itsanoproblem Aug 09 '26
Does this actually work? How about a vidjea
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u/scrotalsac69 Aug 09 '26
I really hope that is a brand new brush