In about a month I'll be racking my first batch of hard cider into bottles, so while I wait for the cider to clarify I'll be cleaning my bottles.
Some of the bottles I have were used with homebrew before, and were never rinsed out so they have mold/yeast on the bottom. The bottle brush my kit came with doesn't have bristles on the end of the brush and I have no water jet (both problems have already been remedied and replacments should arrive next week) but in the meantime I was trying to think of other ways I could clean the bottles.
One thought that comes to mind is putting the bottles in a tray, placing them in the oven, and letting the oven go through a cleaning cycle. Wait a few hours after the clean cycle runs for everything to cool off and hopefully all the mold/yeast will be reduced to ash and therefore should be easy to brush out with a little soapy water.
Has anyone tried cleaning bottles using this method before? Worst thing I could think of happening is shattering the bottles, but I should be pretty safe as long as I let them warm up/cool down slowly.
Some of the bottles I have were used with homebrew before, and were never rinsed out so they have mold/yeast on the bottom. The bottle brush my kit came with doesn't have bristles on the end of the brush and I have no water jet (both problems have already been remedied and replacments should arrive next week) but in the meantime I was trying to think of other ways I could clean the bottles.
One thought that comes to mind is putting the bottles in a tray, placing them in the oven, and letting the oven go through a cleaning cycle. Wait a few hours after the clean cycle runs for everything to cool off and hopefully all the mold/yeast will be reduced to ash and therefore should be easy to brush out with a little soapy water.
Has anyone tried cleaning bottles using this method before? Worst thing I could think of happening is shattering the bottles, but I should be pretty safe as long as I let them warm up/cool down slowly.