We drink a lot of ice tea. It is the drink of choice here, and my plastic pitchers show it. They turn brown quickly. Every now and then Tim will take some bleach water to clean them out. (Apparently it bothers him sooner than it bothers me.) It works, but I'm not crazy about using a lot of bleach.
Awhile back I accidentally found a tastier solution: make lemonade.
We make lemonade from lemon juice instead of a mix. The lemon juice removes the tea stains. Full strength is works pretty fast on those stains, but even dilute for lemonade the stains are usually gone by the time the lemonade is.
Lemonade
for one gallon
2 C sugar
2 C lemon juice (or mix 1/2 and 1/2 with lime juice)
water to fill the pitcher
I suppose if I alternated tea and lemonade in the pitcher I'd never have to worry about those stains again.
A tasty solution that works for me.
We drink a lot of ice tea. It is the drink of choice here, and my plastic pitchers show it. They turn brown quickly. Every now and then Tim will take some bleach water to clean them out. (Apparently it bothers him sooner than it bothers me.) It works, but I'm not crazy about using a lot of bleach.
Awhile back I accidentally found a tastier solution: make lemonade.
We make lemonade from lemon juice instead of a mix. The lemon juice removes the tea stains. Full strength is works pretty fast on those stains, but even dilute for lemonade the stains are usually gone by the time the lemonade is.
Lemonade
for one gallon
2 C sugar
2 C lemon juice (or mix 1/2 and 1/2 with lime juice)
water to fill the pitcher
I suppose if I alternated tea and lemonade in the pitcher I'd never have to worry about those stains again.
A tasty solution that works for me.