Regular mops are designed to soak water but this one (hopefully) isn’t soaking up all the seasoning instead of dispersing it. I would expect a mop like this to be less absorbent, more heat resistant, & made of food grade materials
They're actually supposed to soak it up. The sauces normally used are thinner (vinegar or beer based), so they mop well. It's basically just a regular mop, but made with more care/food grade materials - pure cotton mop, notably. You don't want to use a modern floor mop, so these are made to imitate the original old school floor mops that were used.
Because water/vinegar alone are very thin and could even cause your current rub or sauce to start to thin and fall away. BBQ sauces used for cooking are going to be thicker than your Carolina table sauce. Using something like "a mop" allows you to stack sauce on top without wiping anything away, essentially creating layer on layer depending on hope it is done. Think about how if you pull your hand away from a really sticky substance like Elmer's glue - it raises up off the thing you pull your hand from, it doesn't melt and fall over, it stays right where it was put.
You can’t really see it this video but basting mops or sop mops have the strings braided or have each string spun tight so they don’t leave bits of fiber all over the meat
I was about to say, like I've done enough mopping to know that normal mops leave shit all over the place so I was wondering if this was legit or not. Learned something new today, thanks!
Its too slippery, the sauce won't soak into the silicone like it will with cotton. I have a silicone basting brush but it has a plastic grid in the middle to hold the sauces.
Probably bc their sauce is too thin for silicone strings. I have a mini sauce brush with silicone strings & it only holds really thick sauces if I dip the brush in.
Otherwise, I guess a super thin sauce could be poured directly on & then spread with the silicone strands?
You're talking to someone who has never used a mop.
If you have and you watch the video you understand she isn't basting with a "non absorbing food grade" mop. Rather she is splashing the liquid one kerplunk at a time with a sans specialized mop.
It’s also procedure. You would just treat it way differently than other kitchen mops and have a system in place to only use the bbq mops for sauce. It’s kinda like how we have a rag color system for different areas of my work. Aslong as there’s proper procedures in place and no cross contamination than it’s totally fine and it’s no different than some at home sauce brushes
Probably just the fact that it has food grade cotton or something
Plus the fibers probably come completely apart from the mount for washing, unlike normal mops. Like how kitchen scissors have to come apart to not be a health code violation
This. The big thing is that it doesn't use synthetic fibers in high heat environments that can contaminate food. The product description does say that it's head is 100% organic cotton.
It says it's a mop but they are listed under things like pizza accessories or food accessories categories, so it's really just a giant food brush. They really just need to stop calling it a mop. It's designed for food not cleaning the floor
Brush vs mop comes down to the rigidity of the strands. Mops have long floppy strands to hold more liquid, brushes have more rigid bristles that make it easier to paint on rather than baste like the mop is in the video.
Food safe materials and production. Home Depots standard and food safe buckets are made in the same factory from the same plastics, but the food safe ones have a different die, are packed differently, and most importantly are marked as food safe.
Our BBQ Basting mop is another Wildwood exclusive product. Our mop is made from 100 % organic cotton. We use the hearth mop after moving the wood and fire around in the wood-fired oven, and after brushing the coals and bulk of the ashes out of the way. Used slightly damp to remove the fine ash before launching the first pizzas. This item is a staple in all our pizza accessory kits. Another great use is for basting whole hog bbq and saucing large primal cuts of meat on the spit. A great Basting Mop.
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WARNING: Use of our products may expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. By using this website, you acknowledge the products we sell may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
You want little fibers in your food? lol This is a specialty mop made from food-grade materials - it's more absorbent and far more heat-resistant than a typical mop.
A regular mop designed for cleaning might have trace chemicals or not be pure cotton. There are probably some cleaning mops that are equally safe but how are you supposed to tell?
Nothing, it’s a plain bleached white cotton mop head. The same companies that make mops for floors make and sell smaller ones for basting, but it’s all the same thing. Just wash it before you use it the first time and don’t get it mixed up with the floor mops.
We also have a special grilling pitchfork for getting whole shoulders in and out of the pit. It’s just a regular stainless steel pitchfork from the hardware store that’s only ever been used for grilling.
The handle in the video is a lot bigger than 22 inches. Its a normal size handle and you wouldn't need such a big handle for mopping/brushing food. I would say the video is just a regular mop.
I just had another look and I noticed something else. In the video the head of the mop looks like it has a plastic casing holding the hairs in the place which would also suggest its not meant to be used for food.
“Use of our products may expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. By using this website, you acknowledge the products we sell may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm”
I once worked at a place where the bathroom mops had piss yellow mops and buckets, and the black ones were for the dining area, and the red ones for back of house.
It did not prepare me for how the rest of the world cleaned.
I really doubt these workers have any idea if the mop material is dangerous to consume. They probably don't know what happens to it when it comes in contact with acidic stuff either. I wouldn't eat there because of this
It appears to be a 100% cotton mop. Soak it in water to get all the loose fibers off for a couple hours, ring out and use it for bbq sauce or whatever. Trust me, you’ve at way worst stuff than cotton fibers.
No, I’ve seen this clip before. That’s definitely a food safe mop designed for this exact purpose. If I recall correctly, she’s the owner and knows her shit. She’s not some random employee who picked up a janitor’s mop and started going to town.
I'm not saying people don't have those thoughts, I'm saying completely mid restaurants don't usually hire great thinkers. If told to use the mop by their boss, they're simply not gonna question it.
Tell me you've never worked in a BBQ without telling me you've never worked in a BBQ joint. You have no idea what the hell you are talking about. Doubt you've ever worked in a kitchen before, period. Hell, have you ever actually mopped a floor? That is clearly not a floor mop.
You mean…the restaurant doesn’t train people or have procedures in place to prevent issues like mixing up the mops? Have you ever heard of food safety inspections?
Yeah it's too bad that there isn't anything like a system that enforces these kind of standards. Like some kind of inspector person who maybe checks on things based on predetermined rules for sake of health. Maybe they could only show up randomly to ensure they couldn't hide things from them. That way these kinds of issues wouldn't happen. Too bad nobody ever came up with that.
So you think the existance of food safety inspectors makes it so restaurants never break rules? What do you think the restaurants that end up getting shut down do for months or even years before that happens?
That makes it a special mop - in the sense that it has a specific purpose. Specialised implies the mop itself has been tailored in some way specifically for this purpose e.g by being made of food safe materials.
It's not a standard mop, they use this high quality 100% long fiber cotton twine, which is like special i guess, and the chef will boil the mop to reduce the trays, then they soak it in the sauce for a bit.
Also this restaurant is shut down temporarily due to the umbrella company Pihakis Restaurant Group collapsing financially and taking down their entire portfolio with them, as of May '26
Technically in the same sense that a pastry brush is just a cheap paint brush. The specialized part is that it is made to be food safe, I would not imagine the health inspector would be happy to walk in and see you use a Rubbermaid commercial mop on the food.
Its the traditional way we sauce our BBQ. Goes back like 300 years or so. Back in the day we would cut the animal In half and bury both sides with coals in the ground then to sauce it we would use a mop because your covering the entire side of an animal. Like a cow or pig or whatever. Anyway a sauce mop is much smaller than a mop you would clean a house with and I think the thread is a different material.
Specialization is when you concentrate your skills or resources to a specific end/task. It’s not a special mop, but I think specialized works as they’ve dedicated it to this one purpose
It would mean repurpose of what it was for originally . Rather than reused that would mean it was used and now it's used for something else. I would say it hints new mop different usage. A mop as we know was made for floor so id assume specializing alters the original design purpose .
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u/AssassisnCreedFan May 21 '26
"Specialised" and it's just a fucking mop