Some where I read a article about steaming chenille to bring it back to life, get tid of the bends, etc. I took it a step farther. In the article it stated to take the piece you were going to tie with and run it through the steam from a tea pot or like item. I got a bunch of chenille from ebay for next to nothing and I don’t like to tie with a small piece. I took the whole 9 yards (litterly) got a pan of boiling water and a strainer and a lid to fit. I trew the chenille in the strainer after the wate had started to boil and covered with a lid. Every so often I would pull it out and untwist it. When you pull the whole bunch out and shake it and it falls in a nice long strand it is done. I place it in a zip lock snack bag. Hopes this helps someone
This is a great tying tip! Do you mind if I steal it and put it in Tying Tips so it doesn’t get lost?
LadyFisher, Publisher of
FAOL
harley,
I have from time to time steamed
dry flies for the same reason.
A little steam from the tea kettle
will straighten out the bent hackles
and wings that get knocked out of shape
in the fly box, mostly the larger ones.
Just hold 'em over the steaming kettle
with a pair of hemostats. You see 'em
pop right back into shape!
MW
Nick,
Does your mom know that you’re messing with her rice cooker? 8T 
You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it’s a real short camping season.
If you want to put it in the tying tips go ahead. One thing I am very much about is helping where I can even though the wife gets a little irrated about it. Sometimes I help to much and forget about the family LOL
Another advantage to the boiling hot water bath is that it shrinks the cotton core of the chenille and locks the material in more securely. I discovered this when we developed Crystal Chenille. We would get the raw material from Danville and dye it up into the desired colors, this is when we discovered that the core had shrunk and locked in the material.