Stainless Steel Soap Bar
July 7th, 2008
I have always been curious about the stainless steel soap bar. For those of you who are not familiar, the stainless steel magic soap bar works to neutralize the strong odors that are present from handling ingredients like onion, garlic, or even fish.
I like a good cooking tool but most kitchen gadgets I stay away from. And this one seems pretty gimmicky. Well, ladies and gentlemen, turns out that the magical rub away bar works! I got my hands on one of these recently as I had a small balance on my kitchen store gift card. I thought, worst case scenario I have a cool looking stainless steel paper weight for my office. But it turns out that the magic soap does remove kitchen odor from hands.
All you need to do is wash your hand under cold running water and rub your smelly fingers on the stainless steel soap, and presto! It’s pretty darn close to a 100% removal which is amazing. Even better, it never wears out. About the only additional cleaning necessary is scrubbing under your fingernails with a nail brush!
Well worth the investment in my humble opinion.
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Guess what everyone’s getting in my family for X-mas this year?
July 7th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
@nicmcc Is it already that time of the year to start thinking about presents?! Now that I have looked around, I like the tear drop shaped soap, muy sessy.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:43 am
What a crazy gadget! I’m definitely jumping on the Christmas gift train too. Thanks for the info!
July 8th, 2008 at 11:26 am
These work great. But I keep wanting to make a robot who dropped the soap joke.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Not take the amusement away from a new kitchen gadget … But, you can achieve the same effect from a stainless serving spoon, or any other stainless whatnot you have stashed away in your utensil drawer.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Thing is, it IS a gimmick. There is nothing magical about it. Any piece of stainless steel will do the same thing, even a spoon.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I wonder it this soap also takes other foul smells away…?
July 8th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
@Blake @ Steve
Point taken regarding the stainless steel spoon. Good thing I like the shape and the looks of it! Matches with other things that are stainless and chrome in my kitchen! :)
@linzzzzz
How is your new place? Studio set up? Are you growing a garden yet?
@foodluvin
Are you sure it was a robot and not you? :)
@seosurvivor
It may take away other foul smells but but it will never clean up your dirty mind!
July 8th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I always thought these were a joke gift. I’m glad to hear it’s not a scam.
July 24th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I’ve always rubbed my hands on the stainless steel sink… but I’m happy to know if I ever have another kind of sink, I’ll have a smell-eraser replacement!
July 26th, 2008 at 9:15 am
@robin Wow, to think I how long I have been missing out on this. Stainless steel sink in front of my face all this time!
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:26 am
Do these actually work? A family friend just gave me one of these as a gift, because I’m always cooking. She said that it would help me get rid of the “Pepper Smell” because I’m always cutting up Jalapeños & other peppers….
To be honest, I haven’t even taken it out of the plastic wrapping yet.
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
@Jeff - I have a box of food grade rubber gloves stashed under my kitchen sink. We use a lot of spicy peppers around the house and we don’t want accidents to happen you know :D
August 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I’ve never seen anything like that before. If I ever have stinky hands though — I’ll know what to get : ]
August 4th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
@Jenna Stinky hands, stinky fingers, it seems to work well :)