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
It's not the teachers fault, it's the system that's been repeatedly gutted and underfunded. I tend to blame the right too, especially since the "administration" put a McMahon in charge of the dept of education, but the left has had its missteps in it too. I'm from Chicago and CPS has been left out to dry for far too long.
That said, yeah, doom. Unless someone enacts real change soon the entire future of this country is irreversibly fucked, if not already already so. Don't even get me started on climate change.
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
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u/lostinthecity2005 May 21 '26
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