irishwater
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I just want to know the difference if any? I have a huge pail of oxyclean from Sam's for my clothes, and if it is the same or just as good as pbw. I will use that.
Thank you for your info
Thank you for your info
irishwater said:Revvy,
Thank you very much. I am switching after my pbw is gone. :rockin:
Oxiclean can eat stainless, so I try to avoid using it on stainless unless I have to, and when I do it's for only short soaks (<30 mins). Definitely get the oxiclean FREE, which doesn't have perfume and crap in it. BKF works miracles on stainless when scrubbing, I have no idea if it is useful for soaking to get grime off. I have just recently picked up some UBC (Austin Homebrew's answer to PBW), and so far I like it but I'm on the fence. It seems to rinse easier than oxiclean, and does a good job, and I really like the idea of being able to use it for long soaks on stainless steel, but it's still expensive... I know, in the grand scheme of things, it's far from being the most expensive part of my brewing process, but I still can't shake that nagging feeling of $$ every time I scoop out a bunch of it. Although it's probably a little too spendy to become my regular cleaning agent, I may stick to using it exclusively on stainless steel and copper and other things that oxiclean isn't nice to.
I was told that PBW is great - it eats beer-stone - .
I've been very happy with TSP. It's cheap, works very well, and available at most hardware stores.
PBW is oxiclean (70%) + TSP (30%)
it can be found in most hardware stores.How is it sold, where can you get it?
it can be found in most hardware stores.
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=205671743&listingid=46353159
http://www.nothingbuthardware.com/774237.html
Keep in mind most Trisodium Phosphaste, at least what is sold in the US, is actually Sodium Carbonate due the ban on phosphates since the 1990's. It really is nothing more then a surfactant. It is known to corrode metal and damage grout.
As a cleaner Sodium Percarbonate by itself works fine. It really does not need TSP to work. The only thing adding TSP does it make it work faster.
I was told that PBW is great - it eats beer-stone - and that most people use it much more than they need to. Hot water and a cheaper cleanser with a PBW wash/soak every 4-5 batches while using Star-San for sanitization was highly recommended to me.
Haven't done it yet - been coasting along with what I have.
PBW is a cleaner; Star San is a sanitizer. I use both for their respective applications. I tried Oxi-Clean, but with our super-hard well water it's a no-go for soaking glass. It will deposit a white film if soaked for more than a half hour, which must then be removed by an acid rinse (white vinegar or Star San). I therefore use PBW, works just fine. I could always buy the RO water to use with Oxi-Clean, but that wipes out the savings.
I think you'll be fine using Oxi-Clean for your application, depending on your water supply, just be sure, as mentioned in previous posts, that you rinse thoroughly.
To bring up an old thread. Anyone had any issues with pitting in plastic when using PBW? The top of my better bottle is covered in tiny pits, and i have to believe its from soaking in PBW upsidedown overnight to try and remove the krausen gunk.
They are def. pits, and they only appeared after i let the carboy soak upsidedown overnight in PBW. I was under the impression that this stuff wasnt supposed to harm plastic?
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