One thing I've heard recommend done is taking a piece of aluminum foil and covering the top of the unsanitized (but cleaned) bottle. Try to make the aluminum foil seal around the bottle pretty well. Then bake the bottles at 400F for an hour. The baking will sanitize (and perhaps even sterilize) the bottles and the foil. The foil will then keep out any nasties until you're ready to bottle.
One thing to note, if you haven't sanitized glassware by baking before, is to heat the bottles slowly. Put the bottles in the oven, then set the temperature, and then start the countdown from an hour when the oven reaches 400F. If you just throw the bottles in an already preheated oven (particularly if they're wet) you risk them expanding too quickly and breaking.
WTF
this aint serious is it?
please look at calander. its 2009 or close to it
WTF
this aint serious is it?
please look at calander. its 2009 or close to it
for the record, you should be fine. You can pull the bottles out of sanitizer drain and place upside down in/on a holder. Tree, box with bottle holders whatever... nasties don't climb up. They fall with gravity or your touching them.
Since I clean and sanitize my bottles then store upside down in dedicated bottle boxes (file boxes from costco average 30 bottles per). I have both resanitized and not bothered and bottled straight from the box. Never an issue. 3 years and they still taste fine...
I sanitized bottles using the sanitize cycle in me dish warsher....then let them hang out in there until that evening (Sunday evening). Sunday evening I put them in a *clean" cardboard box, with a cardboard lid (these are boxes I brought home from work, used for storing 8.5x11 paper). I bottled tonight (Tuesday), so they had about 48 hours in the cardboard box. We'll see how it goes but I bet it'll be aight.
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