Not a Whole Lotta Boat-Floatin' with the Dawn Power Dish Brush
Written: Feb 21 '04
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Pros: Can be used by right or left handed people, powerful spinner, great on carpet stains
Cons: Pricey, heavy, bad for aging non-stick cookware, just doesn't work that well on dishes
The Bottom Line: I can't recommend Dawn Power Dish Brush for its intended purpose (dishes), but there are other uses that make it worth a look at.
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| logimom's Full Review: Dawn Power Dish Brush |
I heard so many good things about the Dawn Power Dish Brush I thought I’d give it a try. I thought it would be perfect for the 2 week old milk, soda, and food particles I find on my dishes. Don’t be alarmed. . . we’re not nasty or anything. We just have a nasty 14 year old that shoves the stuff under his bed because he’s a little too lazy to bring it downstairs. I have to go raid his room for them every once in a while. Anyway. . . The Dawn Power Dish Brush is touted to knock those nasties right off, but it doesn’t quite live up to that in my book.
Description
The Dawn Power Dish Brush is 10 ½” long, with the top 2 ½” being the brush. The handle is slightly tapered for better grip and measures around 1 ½” in diameter. This sucker is pretty heavy for such a gadget, weighing in between 2 and 2 ½ pounds! It requires 4 “AA” batteries (thankfully included), and has a soft rubber touch-power button. Not much pressure is required to activate, making it easier to manipulate, though constant pressure must be applied to keep it on.
The Dawn Power Dish Brush has this nifty feature making life easier for all the southpaws out there. Inside the battery casing are instructions for battery placement for both righties and lefties. For righties, the brush spins clockwise. If a lefty were to use it this way, there would be lots of splashing. By reversing the polarity of the batteries, the brush will spin counter-clockwise, keeping all the lefties clean and dry.
The spinning brush is multifaceted, with both stiff and soft bristles strategically placed for greater effectiveness. The stiffer bristles are located on the top half of the brush, extending around the tip, for those hard to reach corners and edges to loosen baked-on and dried foods. The softer bristles at the bottom help wipe away the loose food. This scrubber brush is replaceable – just pull off and replace (individual replacement brushes are available in stores).
Instructions are simple. . . pour your dish liquid onto your dish, pot, whatever, then scrub away and rinse. When you’re finished using the brush, I find it to be a good idea to put a little liquid on the brush and spin it under hot water for a minute to clean it out and reduce some of the bacteria that will grow in those bristles.
My Thoughts & Uses
Well, the Dawn Power Dish Brush doesn’t quite float my boat in the dish department. Anyone who reads my reviews know I test stuff out and push it to the limit on purpose. I let the remainder of some Lipton Teriyaki Noodles dry onto the side of one of my pots – on purpose. After letting it sit for about an hour, it became the perfect candidate for the brush. So I put some dish liquid in the pot and started scrubbing. It knocked maybe 60% of the crud loose before my wrist got tired. After 3 minutes of remote success, I put the brush down and ran some hot water into the pot to sit for a couple of minutes. 30 seconds worth of good ol’ scrubby sponge later, the pot was squeaky clean. I’ve also tried it on cookware with non-stick coating, and found it to be OK on the newer pieces, but it caused flaking and scratching on some of my old faithfuls.
I’m not particularly impressed with performance on my dishes, either. My 14 year old never rinses a dish. Let’s use dried on Cream of Wheat as an example. . . The brush failed miserably with the dried, gritty glue the Cream of Wheat had become, knocking maybe 50% off. Again, with the scrubby sponge and hot water, we had a clean bowl in mere seconds. I will give it this, it does pretty well with cleaning the grungy bottoms of glasses and cups I find in Logan’s room.
Anyone who knows me will also know that I find alternative uses for things, too. I’ll give this little goomer credit in the carpet spot-removing department. I was determined to get my 7 bucks worth outta this thing, and it wasn’t going to be in my kitchen. My toddler got a little wild with his spaghetti one day, and left lovely sauce stains on my beige carpet. It wasn’t coming up well with just spot remover and elbow grease, so that little light went off in my head (it tends to do that once in a blue moon). I retrieved the Dawn Power Dish Brush from the cabinet below the sink (where bad gadgets tend to go in my home), sprayed on some spot remover, and put the brush to it. Voila. . . no more spot. It worked on a few other stains, too, like the mystery stain on my toddler’s car set that I’ve never been able to get clean. I don’t know what it was – heck, I don’t wanna know what it was – but now it’s gone.
I was really going to “dis” this brush when I got around to reviewing it, but I really can’t after the fine job its done on spots. I just can’t recommend it for its intended use! 1, maybe 2 stars for dishes and 5 stars for spots.
Go figure. . .
Thanks for the read!
Donna
Copyright 2004
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