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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-03-09 19:42
Dishwasher.
Unless you want to use your mpc after the treatment.
(IOW don't do it. I warned you. Do.Not.Do.It. Don't microwave it either)
When researchers find out that wooden kitchen cutting boards are less germ-infested than their plastic cousins I'd assume you're on the safe side already. Buy a toothbrush and remove the gunk if it annoys you or you experience a squishy clamping experience.
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Ben
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Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2006-03-09 19:57
Grain alcohol made by Everclear (the stuff you used to spike the party punch with). It's 95 proof, at the local liquor store, and with the help of a handkerchief and some Q tips, you can sanitize hardwood and hard rubber mouthpieces alike.
If the mthpc is of the Grenadilla variety, be careful that some of the black
(or sometimes dark purple!) stain that may have been added doesn't get on your clothes. It will come off of your hands with the alcohol though.
Gregory Smith
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-03-09 20:57
Why not use the commercial mouthpiece sanitizers? I doubt that one of them would penetrate very far into the wood (remember Moennig's block of grenadilla that soaked in oil for 50 years with no penetration), and you could wash it out with water afterward if you're worried. The water would do no harm. After all, a mouthpiece gets wet when you play it.
Anyway, wood typically has less bacteria on it than plastic (or, I suppose, hard rubber). On the cooking boards, plastic chopping boards are downgraded because bacteria multiply in small scratches, while they quickly die on wood surfaces, which apparently are hostile environments for germs.
Ken Shaw
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