Here's something that SS can do that Carbon can't!!

E

ElCuchillo

BANNED
Joined
Oct 3, 2006
Messages
713
Ok, so I was at work today, and was cutting up some nasty, rotten red meat for the alligators to eat. Actually, it was more green meat then anything else. Alligators eat anything, including rotting carcasses they may come across, so we don;t throw the meat away when it goes bad. We feed it out. The gators LOVE it.
Anyway, I finished and went to wash my hands. Even though I had on rubber gloves, that rancid smell of rotting flesh seems to have seeped through the gloves and rignt into my hands. No matter what I did, I couldn;t get that smell out. Well, one of the guys at work told me to try something. He said he'd read someplace that if you run cold water on stainless steel, and then wash your hand in the water dripping down off the steel, it will remove odors. Something about the chemical reaction the water has with the steel. Anyway, I laughed and dismissed it. However, the friggin smell was STRONG!!! So I gave in and went into the bathroom, pulled out my Vic Super Tinker, opened up the main blade, and gave it a go. I turned on the cold water and and let it run off the blade and onto my hand. I kept it there for a while, and low and behold, the smelll went away. At first I did it and smelled and the odor was still there, and my coworker told me I had told me I had to let the water run off the blade and onto my hand for a little longer. Well, I did, and the smell DID disappear.
I don't know why, or how, but this friggin thing works. I tried it with my SAK, but I'm guessing it works with any SS.
Who would have thunk it?
 
Okay then. Always learning something new. Thanks for passing it along, EC!

Rupestris, I've seen those bars advertised around. Putting these two posts together explains why/how they work.

Good info to know. Especially at work.
 
I got one of those as a gift, tried it once, wasn't impressed, I guess I should dig it out again.
 
Absolute nonsense !! The water will not pick up anything from the stainless steel !
 
Brass is a good one too. Rub your hands on it, & they pick up the brass smell instantly. Dunno if it'd help get the rotten meat smell off though?
 
Aren't most faucets and aerators made out of stainless? I guess I don't see how it is any different.
 
Whenever I clean an onion, I just wash my hands and then rub my hands on the faucet and the onion (or any other) smell is gone!
 
My wife bought a folded sheet of stainless that was supposed to remove the smell from your hands when chopping onions. My first thought was "What a bunch of BS". But I'll be damned... it works.

I haven't seen an absolute account of how this works, but this may offer some clues.
 
I know what they meant but this line from shecky's link just sounds a little scary to me :D
"...rub your hands across the blade of a stainless steel knife..."
 
MJR said:
Whenever I clean an onion, I just wash my hands and then rub my hands on the faucet and the onion (or any other) smell is gone!
Click to expand...

I'll second that, been doing it for years.:thumbup:
 
mete said:
Absolute nonsense !! The water will not pick up anything from the stainless steel !
Click to expand...

LOL. Have you tried it, mete? If not, you don't know. You can ASSUME, but you don't know. Sorry. Try it, though, it works.
 
and by the way, they sell this lolipop shaped SS thing to get rid of bad breath. How friggin cool is that?
 
Good story elcuchillo, Its neat to hear a story like that and I learn something new here every day.-Joel
 
ElCuchillo said:
and by the way, they sell this lolipop shaped SS thing to get rid of bad breath. How friggin cool is that?
Click to expand...

Shoot that's all I need. Spend my time sucking a steel lollipop. They'll retire me without a second look. And it would just make it worse if I said it was a steel breath mint.
 
Lime-Juice gets most stinks off, slice a lime in 2 and crush it between your hands.
Excellent for getting a patina on CV too, THAT you can't do with SS:D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top