drayman86
Well-Known Member
I use bleach exclusively.
I use bleach exclusively.
I use bleach exclusively.
I'd like to recast my vote to Iodaphor. I realized a very important reason why it's tits:
If you use it in a bucket, it will tell you where you need to scrub. Good old high school biology, reminding me that iodine changes sugars to a bluish color. You can quickly see where you need to wipe your bucket with a soft rag to remove the crud.
Take that, "Star San".
I really wouldnt fancy racking something I intend on drinking onto the residual foam of a sanitising [sic] solution.
I am pretty sure that Star San is just a sanitizer. It is not advertised as such at any rate. Five Star makes PBW as a cleaner.Star-San is both a cleaner and sanitizer. So there .
If you' re staining stuff yellow with iodofor, you're using WAY too much.
neither.
it's pretty silly to buy star san OR iodophor, when a tablespoon of bleach plus a tablespoon of vinegar works equally well, and it's no-rinse necessary at that density...
"At that density" implies a certain amount of water. How much?neither.
it's pretty silly to buy star san OR iodophor, when a tablespoon of bleach plus a tablespoon of vinegar works equally well, and it's no-rinse necessary at that density...
neither.
it's pretty silly to buy star san OR iodophor, when a tablespoon of bleach plus a tablespoon of vinegar works equally well, and it's no-rinse necessary at that density...
do you really want to be adding even more iodine to your system?
Just a side note....My wife is in the medical field, and I brought up this particular question with her. From her professional opinion, do you really need the extra iodine in your system? Even if the Idophor (or whichever iodine based sanitizer you use) is in trace amounts, and does not affect taste at all, it still puts trace amounts of iodine into the beer that we are going to be consuming. Since there is salt in almost everything, and that salt is already iodized, do you really want to be adding even more iodine to your system?
Not all salt is iodized. I use kosher salt for almost all of my cooking, and it is definitely *not* iodized.
lamarguy said:Sure...At a particularly innocuous concentration (parts per million), pick your poison:
* iodine - readily sublimes (vaporizes)
* phosphoric acid - readily breaks down in the presence of organic compounds
* ammonia (quat) - readily breaks down in the presence of organic compounds
* chlorine - oxides everything in its path!
* ...
The only compound on the list I regularly avoid is chlorine.
neither.
it's pretty silly to buy star san OR iodophor, when a tablespoon of bleach plus a tablespoon of vinegar works equally well, and it's no-rinse necessary at that density...