For our anniversary, my wife told me to go ahead and order one of the Dirty Bird scuttles that I've been drooling over for a while now. It's been a long wait, about 7 weeks from the date of the order, but it finally arrived in the mail yesterday! It looks amazing, and I was really excited to use it this morning. It's certainly worth the wait, and I want to thank Julie for wonderful quality and great colors! It feels really solid, but not overly heavy (unless you fill it up!). And the 1.5 is just the right size. In fact, it's the same size as my cheap salsa bowl from a certain blue-colored big-box retailer out there whose name starts with W and ends in -mart. So it just feels right when I'm whipping my brush around in it.
I tried it out, filled it with hot water for a minute or two, dumped the water and filled it with hot water again (including the lathering bowl). Then I showered. I dumped the water once more and filled the base with hot water one last time, then whipped up a lather. It felt warm, but not as warm as I was expecting. I have to say, the spiral ridges helped my cream lather pretty easily. It also kept the lather warm-ish, but imagined it would be warmer than it was. The lather was relatively warm throughout the shave. But, I think I need to use hotter water next time. How do you guys get your scuttles and lather nice and warm? Microwave the water to get it piping hot before filling the scuttle? I know you can get the lather too hot, so I don't want to go to that extreme.
I also noticed that the cream lathered differently than usual. I think that, with the added heat, I will need to change the amount of water used to make the lather. It seemed drier than usual. It'll take a little practice to get it right.
Anyway, here are a couple photos. I ordered it in Berry Rim on Blue, with a dribble port at 5 'o clock (handle being 6 'o clock and spout being 12 'o clock). I like the dribble port. It worked really well, and let me moisten the lather after the first pass, which was too dry.
In any case, I love my scuttle and look forward to using it a lot! Thanks again, Julie!
Closer shot with the dribble port:
I tried it out, filled it with hot water for a minute or two, dumped the water and filled it with hot water again (including the lathering bowl). Then I showered. I dumped the water once more and filled the base with hot water one last time, then whipped up a lather. It felt warm, but not as warm as I was expecting. I have to say, the spiral ridges helped my cream lather pretty easily. It also kept the lather warm-ish, but imagined it would be warmer than it was. The lather was relatively warm throughout the shave. But, I think I need to use hotter water next time. How do you guys get your scuttles and lather nice and warm? Microwave the water to get it piping hot before filling the scuttle? I know you can get the lather too hot, so I don't want to go to that extreme.
I also noticed that the cream lathered differently than usual. I think that, with the added heat, I will need to change the amount of water used to make the lather. It seemed drier than usual. It'll take a little practice to get it right.
Anyway, here are a couple photos. I ordered it in Berry Rim on Blue, with a dribble port at 5 'o clock (handle being 6 'o clock and spout being 12 'o clock). I like the dribble port. It worked really well, and let me moisten the lather after the first pass, which was too dry.
In any case, I love my scuttle and look forward to using it a lot! Thanks again, Julie!
Closer shot with the dribble port:
