Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Fromes.
Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 3: It is Flex and Frooms on Cata and my goalie, Gosh,
Speaker 3: it's ground Hug's Day because we're talking about Frumi's two
Speaker 3: hundred dollars Kleena Strata water bottle.
Speaker 1: Yet again, if you don't know what it is, there
Speaker 1: is a water bottle in the studio that remains with
Speaker 1: us at all times.
Speaker 2: You is.
Speaker 1: It is from a brand call Cleaner Strata in New York.
Speaker 1: They are a sustainable high fashion i'd say brand. They
Speaker 1: do pants, shoes, pants tops. I think they did a
Speaker 1: collaboration with mister shoes Cleaner Strata ex mister. But this
Speaker 1: water bottle I have in my hand here diamontes. I'd
Speaker 1: say there's probably at least one thousand diamontes more on
Speaker 1: the bottle and it has a very subtle star shape
Speaker 1: if you move it very far away.
Speaker 2: Have you seen that in it? The star?
Speaker 3: I've seen this bottle like so many times in the
Speaker 3: last six months. Every time it's not fresh.
Speaker 2: Every time I bring this water ball out, I get comments.
Speaker 3: But also every time you use the water bottle, you
Speaker 3: do the spiel. Every time we take a sip you
Speaker 3: to the spiel.
Speaker 1: Okay, so michaelis shouted tw hundred dollars. Water bottle has
Speaker 1: been a contentious point in the show and beyond. I
Speaker 1: told the girls the other day that I haven't washed
Speaker 1: it since I've gotten her six months ago. To me,
Speaker 1: that's fine because it's simply water. There's no other remnants
Speaker 1: in the bottle. But to Brook, our producer, and to Flex,
Speaker 1: my co host, that was blasphemous and absolutely discussing. And
Speaker 1: so what we've done is gotten a woman called Lydia Butchman.
Speaker 1: She is the communication director at the Food Safety Information
Speaker 1: Council for where she's worked for twenty five years.
Speaker 2: Like, we're going deep on this, obviously. So this is
Speaker 2: like you guys, we have been once and for all free.
Speaker 3: Me thought it was so bizarre that we that she
Speaker 3: had revealed it she'd never washed her water bottle before,
Speaker 3: Like there's not just like limestone and like COVID during
Speaker 3: two point five chilling in that bottle. And the only
Speaker 3: reason why we brought it up is because often when
Speaker 3: she drinks from it, it leaves a black line of
Speaker 3: demail case on her nose from the soot and the
Speaker 3: grime that's lingering around the lips. Anyway, we've got Lidia
Speaker 3: on the line to tell us once and for all,
Speaker 3: how often should we be washing our reasonable drink bottles,
Speaker 3: if any, and if froom should retire her gem infested
Speaker 3: beautiful bottle.
Speaker 4: Hi, it's lydia.
Speaker 2: Hi'm Lidia at Slicks and Rooms. Hey you going?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's good? Thank you.
Speaker 1: I guess I just want to know me having not
Speaker 1: washed this bottle?
Speaker 2: Is that a problem? Do I need to wash.
Speaker 4: It when you drink out of it? You know it
Speaker 4: touches your mouth, You might need it lying around on temperature.
Speaker 4: Some bacteria and properly have got from your mouth into
Speaker 4: your water bottle. So the idea is for at least
Speaker 4: once a day. You need to use some hot water
Speaker 4: and phats a bottle brush to go inside to clean
Speaker 4: it out. But the important thing is to make sure
Speaker 4: you dry it thoroughly before you leave fill it. So
Speaker 4: it needs to dry it or the bacterial will still
Speaker 4: grow in the in the dampness inside, so you need
Speaker 4: to it upside here. So the goodness I supposed for
Speaker 4: you is you need to at least two diamond te
Speaker 4: drink bottles.
Speaker 3: She does have to she's got one in the drawer
Speaker 3: ready to go, that she could sum it out.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, because this is where I trip up lydia
Speaker 1: because I drink so much water that I never have
Speaker 1: time for it to dry out. So is it possible
Speaker 1: for me to wash it with hot water and soap
Speaker 1: and then like getting all the hot water out, then
Speaker 1: put water straight back into it.
Speaker 4: I know the ideas to drain it out, So I've
Speaker 4: got to, you know, get that one who's during the
Speaker 4: day empty it out, wash it out with hot water,
Speaker 4: and get a clean bottle, busty, clean out properly and look,
Speaker 4: put it upside down to drain it of night and
Speaker 4: it should be okay to refill the next morning. You
Speaker 4: might want to keep some cool water in the fridge
Speaker 4: to refill it with, so you don't leave the water
Speaker 4: bottle in the fridge itself, and don't forget the top
Speaker 4: to it. There's a masstake. I maybe the other day,
Speaker 4: the last media interview I had about this, I actually
Speaker 4: looked and thought and it was slightly molded around the
Speaker 4: top for fungus on mold to grow in there if
Speaker 4: you lead it, especially in the bits where the screw
Speaker 4: top that meets the bottle. You can catch up in there,
Speaker 4: and that's a bit you drink out off too, So
Speaker 4: you need to be careful. So it's not just about ter.
Speaker 4: There's mold. There's fung girl that can grow in there
Speaker 4: that aren't particularly good for you. So it's good to
Speaker 4: you just take to kit them clean. And that's good idea.
Speaker 4: And now we're all jealous because we want to die
Speaker 4: onto water.
Speaker 2: What does the mold look like?
Speaker 4: Typically it's blackish. You can find it's in there. Sometimes
Speaker 4: you get a little bit of clean for the mossy colored.
Speaker 4: It's the bottom of the water bottle.
Speaker 3: Gay, I tell you something. So the reason why this
Speaker 3: whole conversation started about how often you should wash a
Speaker 3: water bottle is because I noticed that when Frooms would
Speaker 3: drink from her bottle, the rim would lead this black
Speaker 3: line of demarcation on her nose, to which I thought
Speaker 3: was a mold like substance.
Speaker 2: Frooms disagreed.
Speaker 3: Now she's touching the rim of her bottle and there
Speaker 3: is so much black stuff coming off it, and she's
Speaker 3: smiling Lydia. She doesn't see stressed or scared ap ll
Speaker 3: And we're stressed and scared we're uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: Yes, i'd suspect that probably is mold and not a
Speaker 4: good idea to consume. Now, another quick thing too, if
Speaker 4: you exercise, if you're jogging or cycling, you use one
Speaker 4: of those water bladders where you sort of suck the
Speaker 4: water out. Remember to keep that clean too. Also, it's
Speaker 4: hot water, and you might want to put a bit
Speaker 4: of a couple of tablespoons of baking soda into the
Speaker 4: bladder and push it through the valve at the top
Speaker 4: that you suck the water out of, and leave that
Speaker 4: for thirty minutes. And some brands actually have a special
Speaker 4: cleaning tablet to keep those clean because they're very likely
Speaker 4: to pick up molds and all sorts of strange things inside.
Speaker 4: Particularly it's warm weather too, so you watch out if
Speaker 4: you're jogging or cycling and have one of those sucking
Speaker 4: water bladders backpack.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about maybe i'll get into that film we
Speaker 1: have long since in the studio.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Lydia to your health. I will concede defeat,
Speaker 2: and I will wash my water bottle. When I get home.
Speaker 1: I will say I haven't gotten sick yet, but you've
Speaker 1: kind of spooked me, so I make sure that I.
Speaker 2: Get on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll be a great idea.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Lydia.
Speaker 2: Bye, Lydia. You've been listening to The Flex and Froom's
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