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Bamboo comes two basic forms, the strand woven variety that people call "solid" is more moisture resistant since they take bamboo, chemically digest it, and take the strands and embed it in resin. The resin makes it very dense and hard (but not water proof). The other kind that you see more...

I make my own dishwasher detergent with it. Works awesome. I don't need to use a rinse agent any more. My glassware come out sparkling every time despite having pretty hard water.

When I'm getting rid of heavy deposits, I soak in a solution of ~ 1 tbsp per gallon. When I use oxyclean and get really light deposits, I fill the carboy with water then add ~1 tbsp. Works great! Citric acid was actually the active ingrdient in CLR before the started using lactic acid and...

Yea. About as basic a surfactant as you can get. You can get fancier by using something like SDS but that's really overkill. Honestly you probably don't need surfactants at all given how caustic it is. If there're any fats, they will saponify and turn into soap anyways. FYI, Here's the...

You could use citric acid as a chelater. I know its going to lower the pH but if you add more percarbonate, you can adjust for that. It's also pretty cheap, ~$3/lb vs. ~$60/lb and easy to find from spice stores. I get mine from myspicesage.com. It's great as an acid wash when I clean my...

Should work. The large circular element is ~1000 watt. Put that on the bottom and wrap a few rectangular ones (4"x36" ~1400 watt) around the side and insulate it well and you should have a decent kettle. Just expensive compared to water heater elements but you don't have to drill out any holes.

I thought I should contribute to HBT in return for some great advise. Here's a more detailed description of my attempts to solder a stainless 1/2" coupling as part of a hopback. It's a practice run before I do it on a precious keg. It turned out really well and was super simple once I got it...

I want one!