OXO Good Grips Soap Squirting Dish Brush
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of OXO Good Grips Soap Squirting Dish Brush
Customer Review: OXO Dish Brush
Summary: 5 Stars
The OXO name is well know for it's quality. This dish brush is very easy to use. I also ordered a set of refill brushes.Customer Review: It does work and updates make it much improved
Summary: 4 Stars
This will be a quick but important note about this product. We've bought probably a dozen of these for ourselves and for guests that fall in love with it once they give a spin. After an overnight, we send them home with it as a gift. Yes, we make our guests wash their own dishes. ;)
The important note: What we discovered initially falls in line with much of what is said here. The early design, where pushing the button actually raised a lever that allowed the soap to be dispensed, wore out over a short period. The rubber button broke down possibly in part because of the soap - maybe cheap rubber. But after getting the 'improved' version I believe it was the pressure required to use the 'lever' version to release the soap.
With the newer version, shown in the Amazon picture, the button and the soap is released with pressure. Pressing on the new thicker rubber fill cap/button requires less effort AND it lasts and lasts. We've had one in near constant operation for over a year.
So, the old ones - sometimes still found on the shelves of Target - have a failing design. It is a hot property btw. Target often sells out. The best place to buy is Amazon because 1. price 2. availability 3. The sell the newer version that uses a pressure dispenser rather than a lever dispenser.
As I said, we've put about 10 of these out into the world. Of that, only one with the lever design has had issues. The others have kept their recipients quite pleased. Now we just sop up the available refills. Oxo isn't perfect in all things. But their record is pretty good. I think they initially missed on this but came back with a fix that works.
Customer Review: Does not last
Summary: 4 Stars
I usually love Oxo products. However, I find this one highly frustrating. The dish brush would be great except for 2 problems. The rubber button you push often develops a split. This makes it lose the pressure to dispense the soap. I have replaced the brush several times due to this. This could be due to the fact the the soap doesn't often seem to dispense unless the reservior is nearly full and you keep pushing harder hoping it will work. Either this or else it has already developed an unseen split in the rubber. It is a very handy scrub brush but not that cheap to keep replancing.
Update: Latest dish brush experience. The last time I purchased this brush I tried to just push lightly on the brush to dispense the soap. This last one has lasted longer doing this. In order to not fill up the handle with dish soap all the time, I tried opening the rubber stopper to let air in and then pressing on it to dispense the soap. A little nuisense but it seems to work. The rubber stopper split yet and I don't keep refilling it with soap. The leaks from the rubber stopper others report may be do to it being spit. Try not to use very mush pressure. You need enough soap but also some air pressure in order for it to dispense properly. Good luck.
Customer Review: It's fine.
Summary: 4 Stars
When I bought this item, I thought it was one of those brushes where the soap comes out when you used it no matter what. (I probably should have read the product description better!) Then when I got it, I found out that to make the soap come out, you press this little black button, and soap squirts out. I think this, and I don't like this.
I like this because when you use the other type of brush, you always have to be using the soap. You can't just try to wipe something off before you put it in the dishwasher, or use the brush while you are rinsing off the soap.
However, the amount of soap that comes out each time is not always the same. Sometimes it's the amount I would use to wash 4 pots. Other times, I have to press the button a few times to get the amount I need to wash one item. Thankfully, I have figured out that the amount of soap dispensed is dependent on the amount of soap in the brush. Now I just need to figure out how to change the amount I dispense.
Customer Review: Idea: A+ Performance: B+
Summary: 4 Stars
I had the old design of this brush for years, until the head became TOO worn, when I decided to replace it. The old design used a leaver to squirt the soap out whereas this one uses pressure. I had more sucess getting soap to come out with the old design. This one is not bad, and is certailnly better than adding soap to a sink full of water.
A few tips: - Keep it 1/2 to 3/4 full of soap. Less than 1/2 there's not enough pressure, more than 3/4 it overflows out of the handle.
- If the head is full of soap suds or dry, soap won't come out, it has to be clear of obsticles and wet to work properly.
- The head pops off fairly easily inside spaces like a coffee pot, but it slips back on easily too. (being able to change the heads is a nice feature, so this really doesn't bother me)
All in all, it makes washing dishes by hand very simple once you get used to the little quirks. I would recommend this product.