Wait, people clean these?!

[tossingpenniesinthepool]

Just browsing online for new tea, coffee and sugar canisters.
One review said how great they were because they were easy to clean....

Clean? People clean these?

I'm fairly sure the sugar at the bottom of mine has been in there a good few years, unless my weekly shake and refill and dislodged the little bits that stick to the edge.

Am I the only one? Will my nan be disappointed? 😅

I’m not sure I’ve ever reached the bottom of the jar as it just keeps getting topped up with fresh tea bags

When those bottom tea bags develop sentience, and march through your kitchen in massed ranks to take revenge for all of the others which have died horribly in boiling water, you''ll be sorry!

When I get to the last half dozen or so I take them out, top up the caddy, and put them back on top of the new ones.

Yelp !

>>collapses next to @Emotionalsupportviper <<<

I only have a sugar jar as I just take tea bags straight from the box, but I wash it every time it’s empty. I don’t use much sugar so it’s been a while.

Only the ones in my holiday cottage!

I let them run down to newly empty and decant into bowls while the canisters have a turn through the dishwasher.

Ours is, too. Every 3-4 years, the lump of solidifed sugar comes out and after it's been bashed about to get enough for the single spoonful that's needed for a visitor, it generally gets replaced with another soon-to-be brick.

I do not clean mine. But then they don’t get crusted on sugar in them, or any of the grime people describe, nor does the sugar stick - so maybe we are cleaner in our everyday use?

🤣 This made me laugh. Mine don't get a refular clean. The sugar and coffee ones one sometimes get a clean if they get really manky. The last time I cleaned one I dropped it and had to get a whole new matching set! Cleaning is an expensive business best avoided based on this experience!

I have 'show' canisters and keep the tea , coffee and sugar in the cupboard , in their original packaging.

Never cleaned mine. Didn’t know it was a thing. Feel a bit of a slattern now.

Never wash ours. They are never empty.

I have those clear tub type ones with the seal and yup they get washed between every refill so we run them empty.

I wash mine occasionally. When I say occasionally I mean years between each clean

Coffee ones inside and out probably once a month but the tea one never inside as I just put the foil from the box straight in and lift out when empty.

Tea bags in box, coffee in the tin it comes in and sugar in the original bag....... I am so scrape the barrel low 😂

😂

I wipe the outside when I clean the kitchen sides but not the inside.

Mmmm, tea caddy has probably gone 25 years without a clean 😵‍💫
Fortunately, I don't use sugar.

Coffee, gets washed before being refilled, so fairly regularly. The sugar we barely use it’s mainly the window cleaner and the occasional sugar on porridge so rarely gets cleaned as the jar is not often empty.

Rinse with boiling water and leave to dry

A bit of terracotta flower pot in with the sugar slows down the lumpification process no end. Probably a good idea to wash the flowerpot bit before you put it in with the sugar.

Lakeland used to sell cutesy terracotta objets that did the same job.

I don't drink tea and know nobody who does (although there are probably a couple of tea bags in the back of the cupboard somewhere) so no tea canister. I don't use sugar and don't know anybody who does, but there is a jar of truvia just in case there's a need (I think it may be 2 years old, perhaps I should think about a new one?). And yuck, just yuck... do people really not burr their coffee straight from bean to cafetiere? So no coffee canister.....

I'd never heard of Truvia. Like many of these highly processed food additives, it sounds a bit dodgy - I think I'll stick to sugar.

As soon as the coffee / tea bag runs out it’s washed, left to dry overnight and then refilled.
Our sugar one never actually has sugar in as it’s not used in this house.
But yes all get washed regularly.

Kitchen isn't clean if I don't? !