cleaning a kong...

• cleaning a kong... RidgebackGermansShep Posted : 7/15/2006 12:28:06 PM What's the best way to clean out a kong? Mine has peanut butter dried int he bottom, where the dogs can't get it. Someone told me to run it through a dishwasher...but i don't know if the cascade will bother them or not... LIKE 17 REPLIES 366 VIEWS LAST POST LORIB Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• alieliza Posted : 7/15/2006 12:47:41 PM I'd like to know the answer to this question as well.....   Maybe you could run it without any detergent?  The hot water will probably just take the stuff out without having to use any detergent..... of course, then you will be running the dishwasher for just one thing. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• gradyupmybutt Posted : 7/15/2006 1:02:24 PM What abou soaking it in HOT HOT HOT water with a tiny bit of bleach in it? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Debbie R Posted : 7/15/2006 1:10:58 PM you could use DW or do what annie said just fill a small pot w/ hot water and let them hang out. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Jennifer Posted : 7/15/2006 1:55:17 PM I just use a butter knife to scrape out the ridges, soak in hot water and rinse with a strong stream.  I've never had a problem getting them clean. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• zsrg;lb ksr'pfjsoprej dfsg;va bjpskopa] Posted : 7/15/2006 2:03:28 PM No bleach, you silly, the rubber is purios and will soak that blaeach up.! vegtable oil and SUPER hot water. The vegtable will free any sticky stuff, any leftover is safe for the dog, but hot water should get most of the iol off 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jensw Posted : 7/15/2006 2:05:33 PM I vote for oil and hot water, too.    But for what it's worth, I put my kongs in the dishwasher all the time. No ill effects so far. I do use Ecover dish soap, though, not Cascade. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• zsrg;lb ksr'pfjsoprej dfsg;va bjpskopa] Posted : 7/15/2006 2:15:17 PM ORIGINAL: jensw I vote for oil and hot water, too.  But for what it's worth, I put my kongs in the dishwasher all the time. No ill effects so far. I do use Ecover dish soap, though, not Cascade.   My sister puts hers in the dishwasher too. I'm just weird and dont wanna mix Rory's outside toys with my dishes......even though she licks my face, ha ha. I guess that makes as much sense as a #1 supersized with a "diet" coke, haha! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• laura Posted : 7/15/2006 2:45:54 PM I also do the soaking in very very hot water, scraping with a blunt knife etc.  But I do use dishwashing liquid (just a drop or two).  I've never had any problems, but is this dangerous if the rubber could absorb it?    A tiny bottle brush also helps, you know the kind that looks like a very miniature toilet brush! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Kim Kelly Posted : 7/15/2006 3:14:50 PM I use a bottle brush too, as well as hand wash in hot water. Have used a knife or a long handled ice tea spoon to clean out the insides before i got the brush. My girl doesn't care for PB though. I reckon it's robably more difficult to clean than the frozen bits of yogurt pumpkin stuff we mix up. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• smilee1079 Posted : 7/15/2006 3:59:56 PM I just found Zoe's after it has been missing a while and it had crusted PB in it too.  I soaked it in water (not esp. hot) and it freed up some of the gook, but then I put it in the top rack of the dishwasher.  I am pretty sure I have done that once or twice before, and I didn't see any problem with it.  I use normal dish detergeant. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Margaret Tyler Posted : 7/15/2006 4:15:48 PM Soak it in hot water with dish soap or run it though a dish washer.  I wouldn't use bleach.  The funny part is this was my husbands idea - who needs a dish washer when you have him. LOL. I stoped putting frozen canned food and raw in the kong because I'm concerned about bacteria.  I mean, they say and I don't use plastic food and water dishes because plastic absorbs bacteria.  And a kong is rubber and I'm sure absorbs bacteria just as well as plastic.  So I've started putting canned and raw in a hollow bone and then freezing it.  When they get stinky, I just throw them out.  They're alot less expensive than a Kong. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• swamper Posted : 7/15/2006 4:24:42 PM I would recommend hot water and an old toothbrush. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• zsrg;lb ksr'pfjsoprej dfsg;va bjpskopa] Posted : 7/15/2006 4:31:10 PM ORIGINAL: jojo the pogo Soak it in hot water with dish soap or run it though a dish washer.  I wouldn't use bleach.  The funny part is this was my husbands idea - who needs a dish washer when you have him. LOL. I stoped putting frozen canned food and raw in the kong because I'm concerned about bacteria.  I mean, they say and I don't use plastic food and water dishes because plastic absorbs bacteria.  And a kong is rubber and I'm sure absorbs bacteria just as well as plastic.  So I've started putting canned and raw in a hollow bone and then freezing it.  When they get stinky, I just throw them out.  They're alot less expensive than a Kong.   Wow how inovative. I would have never thought to fill a hollow bone, thats awesome! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 7/15/2006 7:48:30 PM A bottle brush...like you would use for an infants bottle...is very effective with just your dishwater. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login