just an FYI: if you’re thinking about saving a yellow bird bottle for something don’t run it through the dishwasher.

by callmestinkingwind

16 Comments

  1. Id never save a plastic bottle like that and im Mexican. I save everything

  2. Sir_Encerwal

    I am still waiting for the Strawberry Ginger or Plum Reaper to be anywhere near me.

  3. did you expect the interior to somehow get clean with such a tiny opening?

  4. somersquatch

    No shit? It’s plastic?

    Just wash it out by hand a few times.

  5. kalitarios

    Those bottles were never designed to be hot filled, and your dish washer gets up to 150° or more

  6. phariahplays

    Screwed open the nozzle on one of these yesterday and built up air pressure shot the sauce that was stuck in the tip directly into my eye.

    Pepper sprayed myself

  7. I’m not sure why everyone is being so harsh. I make this mistake all the time. You need to blow into the opening really hard to make the bottle return to its shape. Then you can wash it in the dishwasher.

  8. Ok_Lengthiness8596

    I don’t even put plastic that’s supposedly safe in the dishwasher or microwave lol.

  9. You can put it in the dishwasher, you just have to put it on the top rack and not use heated drying.

  10. Dishwasher Drying Temperature: 110F – 170F

    PET Softening Point: 140F

    PET bottles are stretched from a preform that’s injection molded. The process imbues stresses into the material that the polymer really wants to get rid of. When you apply heat to it… it attempts to go back to being a happy little preform. There are PET’s that can resist this process but basically most PET bottles will do this once you get them near 140F.

  11. HighlightFun8419

    *Don’t tell me how to live my life!* lol

  12. in1gom0ntoya

    well, yeah. DWs have pretty serious heating elements, you basically baked it…

  13. HarmNHammer

    Pro-tip: please don’t reuse plastic bottles for anything involving food or drinks. Micro and nano plastics are real, and will like be our generations asbestos or lead gas.

    Most plastics are not made to be reusable and even if they say: microwave safe/BPA free/food grade/non toxic, they will absolutely leach when exposed to heat and sunlight

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