Hi everyone and welcome back to the channel today's episode is a follow-up
to a previous one in which we talked about how to clean your hydration pack
using dish soap in that specific video i talked about
the option to use vinegar lemons baking soda or lemons and baking
soda together and there was a question from one of our followers asking about
how do you go about cleaning the hydration pack using baking soda and
lemons and this is what we're going to do today
the reason why some people avoid using dish soap is that sometimes it can leave
an unpleasant taste after you clean the hydration pack
some people can't tolerate it which is not the case when you are using lemon
juice and baking soda both lemon juice and baking soda are
known for being very effective with strong odors the one thing to keep in
mind is that the chemical reaction between the citric acid in the lemon
juice and the carbonate base in the baking
soda produces a fizzy reaction due to the co2 gas that we
usually find in soda so just make sure when you are
mixing the back keep it a little bit away from you
so right here i have my hydration pack a three liters of spray hydration pack
i've got some baking soda and four lemons first of all i'm going to start
by rinsing the hydration pack my pack is
pretty clean so i'm just going to use some water to rinse it off
but i would recommend if your hydration pack is not clean
to use dish soap first before using lemons
and the baking soda so i'm just going to give it a good shake here
rinse it off and get rid of the water in the pack
and leave it aside before we jump to the next step
i juiced four lemons that i'm going to use for the cleaning but i believe that
three to four lemons should suffice
next i'm going to pour some water into the hydration bladder
and then i'm going to add some baking soda for the measuring i'm going to
eyeball it for the most part so after adding the baking
soda i'm going to shake it very well
as you can see there is some residue in the bottom of the pack so just make sure
that everything is mixed very well and then i'm going to add the lemon
juice to the mixed and as i said earlier this is going to
produce a fizzy reaction nothing crazy as you can see
here just adding all of the lemon juice and
then i'm going to close the hydration pack
make sure that it's secure give it a good shake
and then i'm going to leave it aside for about 15 to 20 minutes
to make sure that it's doing its work mix it again
and after 20 minutes i am going to use a cleaning brush this is a brush that
comes with the kits or cleaning kit and i'm going to
add the link in the description below in case you are interested so i'm just
gonna use the brush here to make sure that i do a little bit of
scrubbing to make sure that there is nothing that's sticking to the size of
the pack and this is really helpful if the pack
is really nasty so that looks pretty well i'm just gonna
give it a good shake and i'm going to start rinsing you would want to
rinse it a couple of times i would say two to three times to make sure that
nothing is left in there and that's about it that's pretty much
it from here you want to make sure that the
hydration pack is dry and there are a lot of methods to use
the very basic and rudimentary one is using paper towel
so just grab a bunch of paper towel and then place it inside make sure that
you are drying all of the pack and that should
work the second option is using this hanger
that also comes with the kit that i was talking about
and this hanger works pretty well so you basically just place it inside of the
pack and then you hang it to air dry probably
outside or even in the kitchen and that's a very good solution and then the
third option is by using a baking whisk not this one in this
video here there's a larger version of it and you
basically just place it inside of the package as well
and then you leave the pack to air dry and perhaps after that you can again
use some paper towel just to make sure that it's 100 dry
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