Let’s face it, nobody likes scrubbing, but what option do you have? You can’t exactly break out the grinder to clean off the remains of last nights dinner… right? Well, maybe not a grinder, but thanks to this hack by [Markus Opitz], you can use an oscillating tool.
It’s a simple enough hack: [Markus] modeled the attachment for his Bosch oscillating tool in Tinkercad, and created a bracket to hold a large metal binder clip. The clip attaches with a screw, and can hold whatever scrubbing pad your carpel-tunnel afflicted hands can’t bear to hold on to. He’s using a self-cleaning stainless-steel sponge.
One nice touch is a pair of protective lips on the jaws of the metal clip, to keep it from accidentally scratching the delicate surface under care. Of course if you have a drill or a Dremel handy you can buy attachments for polishing disks of various grits, but what’s the fun in that? Doing the dishes with a hacked-together oscillating tool just somehow seems more fun. Plus this way you can’t accidentally produce an engine-turning pattern.
We don’t seem to have featured many hacks for these fun, buzzing, multi-purpose tools, so if you’ve got one send us a tip. We did feature an oscillating cutter for CNC once, but that was fully DIY.
I’m not sure this would be good for non-stick surfaces…
Also I was amused to find that the headline made me think it was about deoxidising variable resistors! I think I’ve been watching too much Big Clive…
Nope, totally normal to think that – especially on this site.
Even more so if your kitchen equipment isn’t called with English terms.
(I thought the same and/but the articles image made no sense…)
The article linked here doesn’t show him use it on a “non-stick” pan, but on a steel baking tray. It’s totally fine to use this. I can’t remember the last time I used a “non-stick” pan. I usually use carbon steel, cast iron or stainless steel (for boiling) None of them come with a chemical coating.
That’s a heck of a potentiometer if it can withstand being cleaned with power tools.
My thought exactly. The beginning of the article was a bit perplexing for me.
Same here too – in the context of this site “pots” would be more likely to mean variable resistors or perhaps legacy telephone service rather than cookware…
I thought exactly the same!
I knew it was ‘HackADay’ dumb clickbait.
An article about rehabbing old potentiometers would be rejected.
We all know why.
They are deleting all the comments where I defend their business practices.
Bandwidth ain’t free.
haha thank you i made it all the way to your comment without figuring it out
i was just like “wouldn’t you just scratch the resist layer off entirely?”
I see I have found my people. 🤣
I once had toilet brush of which the handle unscrewed. I put the broom part in my drill, which really quickly cleaned up the toilet in a new-bought house.
I had the same genius idea back in 2010. Except in my case I simply got sprayed with bits of feces and toilet water. Disgusting.
Chemical toilet cleaner is good enough for most stains.
There are some nice video’s of using a drilladized toilet brush in a bucket with potatoes and just enough water, to scrub off the skin of the potatoes. I tried it myself and it works, but to work efficiently it all has to add up just right, from the form of the bucket to the amount of water. Too much water and the potatoes don’t move, (so you’ll just grind away a few of them), and too much water, and the potatoes bounce around without much abrasion / peeling.
You washed the brush first?
Anyone in their right mind would use a new brush.
I use a pad (or wire brush for stubborn bits) in the grinder to clean up my cast iron pan when it needs a deep clean. I’ve also used a pad in the grinder on stainless steel occasionally (though the drill usually works better for the angles to get inside it).
I’ll stick with the good old Kitchen Gun.
My favorite oscillating tool hack (which I’ve yet to try) is using it with a razor blade to cut apart old tires. The video I saw made it look like a hot knife going through butter.
Is the Bosch oscillating tool water resistant? I expect that no matter how carefully used some water would splash on the body of the tool.
I do not want to spoil somebody, but if I put cookware in my dishwasher and use the 3.5h low&slow eco washing program, everything comes out like new. I have a plastc scraper card for handling dough, which I use to scratch away any loose stuff and then just give it a go!
I’ve used a battery-powered Dremel with these cool little brushes (came in a bag) on stainless steel to get incredibly burned-on crap off the bottom of a large pot. Worked like a damn. Still took time, but about 1/50th of what it would have taken by hand. I tell my friend and CTO about this. We visit his house. What’s all over his stainless steel pan? The same artsy pattern that’s now all over my large pot, from the same little brushes and a Dremel…
I just use my plumbus.
I have always had good results putting hot water with soap in the pan cover and letting it sit overnight, for really big oops I put water and soap in the pan, cover the pan (I have glass covers) put it on the stove and heat it to just starts to boil and turn the heat off and let it sit overnight, again works nice for me
Am I the only one that saw “dirty pots” and thought “grimy circuit boards?”
This is great! A few months ago I designed something similar, with the same purpose, but to be used with a driller instead of an oscillator. https://www.printables.com/model/1321828-pots-and-pans-cleaner
There is some brush made for drill like these one https://media.adeo.com/media/4375074/media.png?width=650&height=650&format=jpg&quality=80&fit=bounds
Just put a pad on it and voilà ! The pad “scratch” itself on the brush …
I use this since years…. I’ve though of sewing some pads together to fit better but it’s works like this. I’ve though of making a motorized brush holder with central water injection and soap distribution…. But my wireless drill work just fine…