Can you mix Oxymagic and bleach?

[britishbloke]

My brewshop is closed today and I ran out of Step One sanitizer.

I heard you can use Oxy Magic to sanitize and bleach to finish and then put in the dish washer.

Can I mix both to avoid a step? And add bleach to the sanitizer mix? And then put in the dishwasher???

 

[Brewing Clamper]

I don't see why you would need to use both. I would just use the bleach to sanitize, making sure to rinse well. On their website, Clorox® Oxy Magic says they are NOT a sanitizer/disinfectant so I wouldn't use it as such.

 

[Orfy]

Never mix chemicals if you don't know what will happen. New chemicals can be created some of them dangerous and Fatally toxic (Even the fumes)

 

[Hopfan]

If you're talking about bottles, just use the Oxy to clean, rinse and you can put them in a 300 degree oven for about 20 minutes to sanitize. Bleach has to be WELL rinsed and with a bunch of bottles, that is some task. I have used bleach, in a pinch, for my glass carboy, but I spent 20 minutes rinsing & shaking & rinsing & shaking to get the bleach smell out. Then I rinsed & shaked some more.

 

[homebrewer_99]

To be safe, never mix bleach with anything except water.

In your situation I would use the bleach for both purposes.

 

[Markusface]

Never mix cleaning products, my old chemistry teacher once told us a story about someone who did this and had to be admitted to hospital with severe respiratory problems - The cause? Chlorine gas had been released as the chemicals in each product reacted, and she had been inhaling the fumes as she cleaned. Nasty :cross:

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Oxy-anything and bleach sounds like a particularly bad mix. My tub of OxyClean specifically says, Do not mix with chlorine bleach.