Cleaning Bird Nests - Part 1

Cleaning bird nest is a simple process but tedious & time consuming. Just soak the bird nest overnight in a bowl of water, it will soften and expand. It is a matter of picking out the feathers with a pair of tweezers!

The tweezers look alike, you will learn to differentiate them after using and appreciate the pair with sharper tips & gentler on fingers.















Then there are finer particles & feathers that seem an endless task to remove! Rinsing many times with water seem the only practical way. Still there are many fine hairs left to pick. So depend how clean you want it, the remaining task is still very time consuming! One can then understand why commercial cleaning resort to bleaching agents.

I did it several times for personal consumption. Each time I was motivated to find a better way. I toyed with the idea of using a ultra-sonic cleaner for a while. Its mechanical vibrations would help to shake loose the feathers & fine particles trapped within.

Recently I found this 35W ultrasonic cleaner that comes with a plastic tray. Fine hairs & particles are attracted to the plastic tray by electrostatics, which I find is a plus.



















I tried and it does help and effective to some extend. Rather than to describe my experience here, I suggest it is better for one to experiment & discover for themselves. I merely want to introduce it as a tool here.