For Jenise:

Yesterday I threw away my old basting brush. And the turkey baster? It went into the charity box. They've both been replaced by a single item that's better than either: a large silicone syringe-type baster with a silicone brush on one end. It doesn't actually look like it would work well--my old brush probably had a thousand bristles where this has just 18 or 20 long silicone spikes, but those spikes pick up and spread butter, oil or you name it better than any basting brush I've ever used. And there are no animal hairs to fall out in the food, no vinyl to melt (as with the basting brush before last when I accidentally dropped it into a hot skillet), and no metal parts to rust.

Are you still using this tool? I tried Google to find it but nothing specific came up.

Try this link. There's many on Amazon.

Drew

http://www.amazon.com/iSi-Basics-Silicone-Standing-Baster/dp/B000S17XUQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1288078572&sr=8-6

[Jenise]

What Drew said. I now own several silicone brushes--still LOVE them!