Bottles question

[lilith79]

Can I re-use an empty bottle with a different flavor? I have an empty I'd like to use for something else, but am uncertain if the old flavor will taint it.

Thanks!

 

[Happy Domino38]

I'd give it a good rinse out with some boiling water and smell the bottle to see if you still tell what the old flavor was. If all else fails, make a solution of baking soda and water and let it sit in there for a few hours. Baking soda SHOULD take out all old odors/tastes.

What flavor was originally in the bottle and what's the bottle made out of? Plastic or glass?

 

[lilith79]

I forgot to mention material, sorry! Plastic and it had clove in it.

 

[Switched]

I forgot to mention material, sorry! Plastic and it had clove in it.

IMHO toss it, you will never get rid of it.

 

[Happy Domino38]

IMHO toss it, you will never get rid of it.

What the illustrious Switched said. CLOVE? Right up there with A.C...I think, (because I haven't checked it out myself yet), that you can just get little squeeze bottles at dollar stores. If not, most vendors do sell for DIY'ers.

 

[Jules22871]

Clove, licorice and anything with cinnamon in it usually retains the flavor for quite some time. I did have some luck with mixing some baking soda in some water and putting that in the bottle, let it sit over night with the lid off of it and by the next day it was alright.

 

[martha1014]

You can buy new plastic bottle really cheap. I think the plastic 30ml bottles are .99.

 

[garyd]

Wash it out with soap and water, then put in some lemon juice, let sit for 24 hours, rinse out well and let dry.

 

[lilith79]

It's not so much of a cost thing as to why I ask, but the whole recycling thing. I don't have easy access to recycling facilities. It's reuse or toss.

 

[Switched]

I recycle my bottle just like everyone else. However, after a soak and a wash if they smell, they get tossed. I don't want the remnant of odour transfering to my liquid.

 

[Janetda]

If you can't get the smell out, then just make some more clove juice!

 

[Rocketman]

Can you get the bottle clean? like really really clean?
yuk if not. A little smell isn't the issue. If the slight residue was going to alter the next juice then mixing flavors would be really cheap
So little residue to alter the taste, just get it clean.
Thing has been who knows where, yuk.