what do you clean your stainless with?

[adworld]

currently use an all natural dish soap on my boil kettle. what do you guys use?

 

[Chesterbelloc]

OxyClean Free.

I do have and have used PBW, but honestly... OxyClean Free has worked better for me.

 

[Golddiggie]

BKF (Bar Keeper's Friend) and/or PBW in mine. BKF will get it really clean for what you can touch, and PBW will get the rest (inside fittings and such).

 

[rjwhite41]

If we're talking about my kettle then water and non scratch soft scrub pad. Boiling your wort sanitizes it and if you clean it right after you're done you don't need anything stronger than water.

 

[Duckfoot]

Oxy soaks and BKF for the crusties...

 

[bschoenb]

Oxi-Clean; unless I want to give it a good scrup ~ then BarKeepers Friend (about every five batches)

 

[stikks]

All I ever use is VERY hot water and a scrub pad right after the transfer-no soap.

 

[onthekeg]

Water with a microfiber washcloth on the outside and once in a great while, BKF and a green scrubby on the inside.

 

[wilserbrewer]

It was said above, but worth repeating, Bar Keepers Friend, the powder, NOT the liquid! as that is all the store had last time I needed some. It will make a stained and beerstoned stainless kettle look and shine like new.

 

[cscade]

PBW does it all. Never use soap of any kind on anything that touches your beer before the glass, is always what I have been told.

 

[starsailor]

I always mix up a batch of Oxiclean (free variety only) with hot water from my immersion chiller to clean up all the brewing equipment at the end of a boil. I dump the bucket in the BK last and heat it up to near boiling after a good scrub with a green scrubby and run it through the valve cycling that several times to get a good clean valve and keg. Any crusties left from scorching something on the bottom of the BK, like not stirring in some extract fast enough, or any mineral deposits get a scrub when it cools down with Bar Keeper's Friend and the same green scrubby. The BKF also has the added benefit of repassivating the SS surface thereby lessening the chance of any corrosion pits forming.

 

[Chesterbelloc]

I didn't know there was a powder version of Bar Keepers...

The things you learn.

Thanks fellas.

 

[starsailor]

I didn't know there was a powder version of Bar Keepers...

The things you learn.

Thanks fellas.

Yup, look just like a COMET can only it's gold, blue, and white.

 

[Chesterbelloc]

You mean like this...

http://amzn.com/B003BVI5GQ

 

[starsailor]

you mean like this...

http://amzn.com/b003bvi5gq

yup!

 

[day_trippr]

I didn't know there was a powder version of Bar Keepers...

That's ok, I didn't know there was a liquid version!

The things you learn.

It's a constant thing with me

Cheers!

 

[ChrisCorley]

Bar Keepers Friend. It's super cheap and effective.

 

[adworld]

thank you all for the replies. I was curious and realized I need to move away from dishsoap.

thanks again