Vegetable scrubbers

[jgm]

A few years ago, Williams-Sonoma had a great vegetable brush. It's about 8 inches long, with a wooden handle, with a stiff brush for potatoes and such on one side, and a softer one for mushrooms on the other. Then my husband put it in the dishwasher. I still use what's left of it.

Since then, not only can I not find another like it, I can't find many for sale at all.

There is the usual one with the bristles held by twisted wire, and the whole thing bent into a circle and stuffed into a handle, but the bristles tend to flatten very easily.

Now what? What do you use? Where did you get it?

[Anna N]

You must have been reading my mind! I realized yesterday that I need a decent vegetable brush and was wondering what might be available. Here's hoping we both get some good suggestions.

[ojisan]

Check out the traditional Japanese vegetable brush Kamenoko Tawashi. Here's a better description of the item.

[scubadoo97]

Surgical scrub brushes work well too. You can get them without the Betadine

surgical hand brush

http://www.amazon.com/Sensory-Brush-Sponge-Bag-3/dp/B001G3W6NO

[JAZ]

I have to admit that I have never owned or used a vegetable brush -- what do people use them for?

[onrushpam]

I've had

this for years. It goes in the dishwasher. I keep it in a little splatter-ware bucket by the sink, along with my dish brush, scrubbie cleaning pad, small bottle of dish soap, nail brush, etc. I use a paper towel for mushrooms.

[judiu]

Nylon mesh pouf for teflon pans. Sold in most supermarkets, in the aisle with the SOS pads, and Brillo. I just rinse mushrooms, very briefly, and wipe with a towel.

[Anna N]

I have to admit that I have never owned or used a vegetable brush -- what do people use them for?

To scrub potatoes prior to baking with the skin on and for carrots, parsnips and the like. Since the vitamins are concentrated in or just beneath the skin of many vegetables I prefer to scrub rather than peel them.