Hat cleaner: make your own DIY hat cleaner with this cool hack!
If you’ve ever tried to wash a baseball cap at home you know how hard it is to get a flat brim hat clean without ruining the shape of the brim. You can buy a special baseball hat washing frame, or you can use this easy, free DIY hack to wash your hats.
I accidentally discovered this trick one day when I was loading my salad spinner into the dishwasher and realized the basket for the salad spinner was about the same size as a baseball hat.
I know, it’s crazy, but it’s true.
So I grabbed one of my son’s baseball caps and tried it on the salad spinner basket for size, and boom! Magic. It turns out that a salad spinner doubles as a perfect DIY hat cleaner.
Here’s how it all goes down.
How To Make Your Own DIY Hat Cleaner
Step 1: Disassemble
Disassemble a salad spinner and separate out the salad basket.
Step 2: Stretch
Flip the salad basket upside down and stretch a baseball cap over it. Pull the hat taut until the crown is shaped perfectly over the basket. If the hat is a snapback, (if it has a series of snaps in the back to adjust the size of the hat) pull it as tight as possible and snap together.
Step 3: Wash
Put the salad spinner basket in the top rack of the dishwasher and wash the hat along with the rest of your dishes on a full dish-washing cycle.
Step 4: Dry
Once the dish-washing cycle is done, pull the basket with the hat out of the dishwasher. Re-stretch the hat over the basket and leave out on the counter or on a drying rack to dry for another few hours, or until completely dry. Then, boom, a clean, non-stretched-out baseball cap using simple DIY hat cleaner.
Allison
Hello there! I'm Allison Czarnecki, founder + editor of Petit Elefant, a blog all about style on a budget for every part of your life: style / home / travel / family. I do a lot of how-to beauty + style tutorials, travel posts, easy recipes, home remodel projects, and cool DIY crafts you totally want to try. I'm super happily married (to a hot Polish immigrant) and am the mother of two kids, a daughter and son, all of whom are featured here on the regular. We live in the country but we're a little bit rock + roll. Welcome!
