Thread: dirty bird or schwarzweisskeramik?

I had a Moss scuttle, which looks identical to a Dirty Bird. I got lucky and found a Schwarzweisskeramik cheap from an eBayer in Italy, and I'd found my new true love. I gave the Moss scuttle to a friend for his birthday, and now my scuttle is a miniature off-white toilet bowl.

Schwarzweisskeramik retains the original function of a scuttle; the Dirty Bird and Moss are great but their spouts are too narrow to dip a brush, and that's what the spout was there for originally: so you'd have hot water to wet your brush. The Schwarzweisskeramik's spout is a second reservoir all by itself, so you don't actually drain the inner vessel by wetting your brush.

This is the ultimate scuttle. Too big to fit in a bathroom cabinet, unfortunately, but proud enough to leave sitting on the sink. Run through the microwave -- twice, once before the shower, once after -- it can heat as much lather as you care to spread on your steaming face.

The problem with my wide-and-low version is the loop on the back. The loop sits down low, where I can run my middle and index finger through it, but where there's no purchase for my thumb. To carry the scuttle from the kitche -- where it's been twirling in the microwave -- to the bathroom, I have to put my thumb on the boiling-hot rim. So I have to always throw a dry cloth over the rim there to keep from burning myself. That handle is NOT user friendly.