1.5 Litre Coke Bottles

[HughRichardson]

I am using easily obtainable 1.5 litre Coke bottles for bottling.
These PET Bottles cannot be washed in hot water as the material can be damaged, so I use cold or warm water for rinsing.

However the bottle caps are of a more normal type of hard plastic, and I would like to give them a thorough wash prior to sanitizing. Does anyone know if these caps can safely be boiled or have any other tips for cleaning of such bottles and caps?

 

[broadbill]

I wouldn't bother with anything more than what you are doing....doesn't make much sense to go over board with one component if you can't follow through on all of them.

 

[HughRichardson]

At present, all I am doing is rinsing the caps under the tap for a few seconds, and letting them sit in a bowl of sanitiser for a half hour or so while I am washing the actual bottles. One or two of them look a little stained as I have been using them for a while and have but recently instituted a system of date marking both bottles and caps so they dont get used too long. However there are still not enough of this new generation of bottles and caps that I can quite ditch the old ones yet!
I dont want to scrub them out with a brush, as that is likley to cause more contamination than it resolves. Maybe I will try and boil half and see how they get along!! I was hoping sopmeone might have tried this already.