one step?

[beerman6]

hi all i have been useing step one and wantto know if oxyclean is basicaly the same thing. please help i can't find one step anywhere locally.

 

[Yooper]

Oxyclean is a cleaner, and I don't believe it's "No rinse". I use one step- that is a cleaner that is also used to sanitize and is no rinse. They are not interchangeable. If you can't fine one step, you can use Star-san and/or Idophor.

Lorena

 

[UTDoug]

The Oxyclean website says "Oxyclean versatile" breaks down into soda ash and oxygen. Soda ash is basic and might compromise the pH if you didn't rinse it. The website FAQ also says not to use it to clean a coffee pot. But you know there is some HBS conspiracy going on about what's in that One Step. I'm interested in what is in "Oxyclean Free"

 

[ALPS]

hi all i have been useing step one and wantto know if oxyclean is basicaly the same thing. please help i can't find one step anywhere locally.

Using it for what? Cleaning or sanitizing?

While they are both percarbonate cleansers, neither can *legally*be called a sanitize although some homebrew shops include One Stepas a sanitizer (and it works).

I use OxyClean to wash and soak everthing in the brewery and StarSan to sanitize. I'll mix one batch of StarSan on brew day and keep it and use it till I'm ready to keg.

 

[TheJadedDog]

Oxyclean is a cleaner and I believe Oxyclean Free must also be rinsed as it too leaves a residue; neither are a sanitizer.

OneStep can clean (although not as well as I'd like) and sanitize even though it cannot legally be labeled as a sanitizer (they didn't want to pay for all the tests the gov. requires).

Personally, I use Oxyclean to clean and Iodophor to sanitize and it works quite well. I used to use OneStep, but it is expensive.

 

[JeffNYC]

I'd think that one could buy it as a generic chemical from chemistrystore.com, etc.? I was going to buy some propylene glycol (for my humidor), citric acid (to decalcify my espresso machine), sodium percarbonate (Oxyclean which I use to clean my beer equipment). One Step says "contains percarbonates"...

What is One Step exactly?