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Questions Doubts and Requests => Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide => Topic started by: cookie1 on September 15, 2010, 03:03:18 am
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What is the best way to clean the TMX brush please? I don't have a dishwasher. (other than DH)
At the moment I put it into a sink of hot soapy water and scrub it with my fingers. I sometimes get dough deep down in the brush. Does anyone have a better method? :-*
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Cookie, bread dough on any brush can be a real problem. I soak the bowl in COLD water for a few mins., put my hand in (or you could use a wooden spoon), and turn the blades back and forth to loosen dough under the blades. You can sit it back on base and zap on Turbo a couple of times. Hot water sets the dough on the brush. Once set, even a commercial dish washer wont remove it. I use a blue handled bottle brush for most cleaning , from Woolworths, $5. I have been through 3 of these in 18 months. Hope this helps.
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Thanks Chookie. Fortunately one of the things I actually remembered reading somewhere was not to use hot water for dough.
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I have the same problem. It is really the only thing that I don't like about making bread. :(
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Have you tried using a comb? It works to get hair out of brushes ?
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Thermomixer, you are brilliant. What a lateral thinker. I found a wide toothed comb and it gets the dry dough out really well.
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Do you all "wash" the bowl like usual with cold water after tipping the dough out?
The reason I ask is that I don't generally have much to clean from my bowl after the self clean. ??? ???
Anything stuck in my brush generally warrants it a good thump on the side of the sink to dislodge it lol
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Same here Kathryn. I often put my brush in the dishwasher for an extra clean (not with dough on it though)
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Yes my bowl comes clean with the normal clean, but often there are bits of dough stuck under the blades.
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I wonder if returning the empty bowl (after the wash and rinse) to the base and giving it a couple of seconds on speed 7 may dislodge a bit more (like we do to get the last of our cookie dough off the blades). The more dough we can get out without using the brush, the better. :)
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I usually have very little dough left around blades but use the hadle of a teaspoon to remove dough from under the blades, then leave the bowl self-cleaning whilst the dough rises - I usually walk away and forget about it for ages - then it is really easy to clean.