Yeti drying

**jayhkr** · 06-26-2010, 07:26 PM

Ok, so I've been gone out of town for a while so I had some time to think about things related to my new gear. The first thing was the Yeti! Man I love this thing! So I was thinking of a great way to help it dry better, at least on the inside. The instructions say to flip the cuff down so the inside dries as to eliviate molding on the inside. Great, no problem, right? Well my first attempt to get it to stay open wasn't great. The outside of it was dry, however the inside was still very damp. So I had to come up with a way to keep the cuff open better. I was sitting at my workbench, enjoying a nice cold drink when I looked at the cup:

Now I thought, it's got a wide mouth at the top, easily customizable for my application I wanted, lets give it a shot. So I went and got my hand box cutter:

Made a slit at the bottom:

Cut the bottom of the cup completely off:

Used my hands to slip the cup into the sleeve of the mitt until the top of the cup was just at the end of the cuff:

Now the cuff opening was very wide and allowed all the air to "circulate" inside the mitt:

For me I just propped the mitt on a nail I use for various things using the rim of the cup to hold it up there and VIOLA! A handy Yeti Mitt drying apparatus was invented!

Works very good. Inside and outside dried fully in 2 1/2 days where as before the inside was still very damp. Just thought I'd share!

**JonM** · 06-26-2010, 07:37 PM

nice! good idea

**weavers** · 06-26-2010, 08:24 PM

i just pull the wash mitt over an old wine bottle. takes a few days for the to dry.

**jayhkr** · 06-26-2010, 08:51 PM

Yeah, but how does the air get into the mitt to dry? If you have the bottle over it, air can't get in to dry it out, I would think.

**kronos** · 06-26-2010, 08:56 PM

Love it. Doing this might of saved my sheepskin from falling apart after only 5 uses.

**quiksilver39** · 06-26-2010, 11:47 PM

Thanks for the tip

**Shane731** · 06-26-2010, 11:53 PM

Cool tip! Thanks for sharing. Now, go feed your Yeti!

**chost10** · 06-27-2010, 04:31 AM

I have also the yeti. It realy takes a while to dry it . Very nice tip

**jayhkr** · 06-27-2010, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by CieraSL

Cool tip! Thanks for sharing. Now, go feed your Yeti!

LOL, it will get fed either tonight or tomorrow once the temperature FINALLY drops to a repectable level!

Thank you everyone for the kind words. I'm glad you all enjoyed!

**kronos** · 06-27-2010, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by jayhkr

LOL, it will get fed either tonight or tomorrow once the temperature FINALLY drops to a repectable level!

Thank you everyone for the kind words. I'm glad you all enjoyed!

Would you buy the Yeti again and what other wash mitts do you have to compare it to? Is it better than all others you've tried? Thanks.

So far I've tried the AG Sheepskin (loved it, my favorite except it fell apart quickly), Microsoft Chenille (not bad), the Schmitt (feels too abrasive) and the Eurow Sheepskin (not as good as the AG Sheepskin). I'm really interested in the Wookie or Yeti.