HawaiianHippie
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Aloha all!
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I've recently decided to explore one of those hands free, no rinse cleaners. I wanted PBW, but the LHBS was out, so I got One Step. On Wednesday, I put all my bottles into One Step and left them to soak.
Yesterday, I was bottling 2 batches (a cream ale and a dunkleweizen), 5 gallons each. I mixed up a 5 gallon pail of Idophor, my sanitizer of choice.
I didn't really see any reason to bother with a drying stage between the One Step and the Idophor. I mean, really, if the cleaner is rinse free, what would that extra half-hour buy me, right? So I took the bottles straight from the cleaner, emptied them, and plunged them into the sanitizer.
The 5- gallon bucket holds 14 upright bottles. By the time I get the bottles 13 & 14 submerged and filled, it's been well over 60 seconds for bottles 1 & 2, so I go straight ahead and start taking the bottles out.
Funny thing, though... all the color was gone from my Idophor by the time I had the second round of bottles submerged!
Ok, so One Step is an oxygen-based cleaner, conceptually the same thing as OxyClean, right? And OxyClean boasts about getting stains out of clothing, including iodine stains.
And finally we get to my question. Was the cleaner simply taking the color out of the sanitizer, or was it actually neutralizing it?
Nothing like the excitement in joining a new forum! Glad to be aboard!
I've recently decided to explore one of those hands free, no rinse cleaners. I wanted PBW, but the LHBS was out, so I got One Step. On Wednesday, I put all my bottles into One Step and left them to soak.
Yesterday, I was bottling 2 batches (a cream ale and a dunkleweizen), 5 gallons each. I mixed up a 5 gallon pail of Idophor, my sanitizer of choice.
I didn't really see any reason to bother with a drying stage between the One Step and the Idophor. I mean, really, if the cleaner is rinse free, what would that extra half-hour buy me, right? So I took the bottles straight from the cleaner, emptied them, and plunged them into the sanitizer.
The 5- gallon bucket holds 14 upright bottles. By the time I get the bottles 13 & 14 submerged and filled, it's been well over 60 seconds for bottles 1 & 2, so I go straight ahead and start taking the bottles out.
Funny thing, though... all the color was gone from my Idophor by the time I had the second round of bottles submerged!
Ok, so One Step is an oxygen-based cleaner, conceptually the same thing as OxyClean, right? And OxyClean boasts about getting stains out of clothing, including iodine stains.
And finally we get to my question. Was the cleaner simply taking the color out of the sanitizer, or was it actually neutralizing it?