Here's a question for you guys...
My cousin homebrews and for years has sworn by simply washing his bottles with soap and water and then throwing them all in the dishwasher instead of using sanitizer. He suggested I do this since the dishwasher has a heating element that should kill all possible infectious microbes.
Someone else who brews that i know says that this is very risky and that it should not be done unless the bottles are sterilized with a chemical component after the dishwasher (which he says is a good means of cleaning, just not sterilizing).
What do you all think: I have 3 cases of soap-and-water-washed and dishwasher-washed bottles. You think I should go the extra mile and sanitize prebottling or is that just an extra step i can nix?
My cousin homebrews and for years has sworn by simply washing his bottles with soap and water and then throwing them all in the dishwasher instead of using sanitizer. He suggested I do this since the dishwasher has a heating element that should kill all possible infectious microbes.
Someone else who brews that i know says that this is very risky and that it should not be done unless the bottles are sterilized with a chemical component after the dishwasher (which he says is a good means of cleaning, just not sterilizing).
What do you all think: I have 3 cases of soap-and-water-washed and dishwasher-washed bottles. You think I should go the extra mile and sanitize prebottling or is that just an extra step i can nix?