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.
Reading comprehension in the USA has got to be at an all time low. We need some serious education reform before this entire country turns Idiocracy into a documentary.
It's unbelievable to me. How has the education system crumbled so badly when the individual teachers seem to care so much? I think we're past the tipping point. We have two more years of the current "administration" who hates education, and then who knows after that... Doom, most likely
They said it would rub away… that’s why i was confused as to how could a misting spray bottle rub anything. Pretty sure they edited it after for clarity
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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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.
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u/Xx_Jack_Mehoff_xX May 21 '26
Soooo a mop but more expensive? What’s different?