Oxyclean users - how do you rinse?

[Soulive]

I've read that you should first use cold water to avoid caking. My method has been to start with cold water and towards the end use very hot water. Any other recommendations?

 

[Orfy]

If I'm indoors warm water, If I'm outdoors cold water.

 

[Soulive]

If I'm indoors warm water, If I'm outdoors cold water.

So since I'm always indoors, I should be using warm?

 

[TheJadedDog]

I always use hot water with Oxyclean, never heard anything to indicate I should do otherwise.

 

[IowaStateFan]

Hot water here, too. I don't use a lot (a couple of tablespoons to 5 gallons of water) so I don't have any problem with caking.

 

[Orfy]

So since I'm always indoors, I should be using warm?

I use warm if it is available.
I've never had any caking.

 

[Jekster]

If I'm inside I use the hottest water that comes out of my taps. I've never had a problem getting a clean rinse. If I'm outside, I use whatever temp my hose water is.

 

[EdWort]

I soak my bucket fermenters for a couple days outside with a scoop of oxiclean with cold tap water. I bring them in for a hot rinse and then let them air dry while I take the spigots apart to soak overnight in hot pbw followed by a rinse.

This method requires no scrubbing and nothing get scratched.

 

[APendejo]

I used some to clean some bottles, it ended up being a total PIA job. No matter how much I rinsed the oxyclean left a white film inside the bottles. I had to go back thru each one with a bottle brush. I used the rest of it in my carpet machine.
AP

 

[mgable]

I soaked my bottles in oxiclean and very hot water to get the lables off, I think I may have used too much( 3 scoops to a sink 0f water.)then rinsed in hot water also. Then sanitized with Idophor and let drain. When I filled bottles i noticed some white film in some of the bottled ,Will this ruin my beer? At the time I thought it may have been from the Idophor as this was the first time I Used it.

 

[mrkristofo]

I always use hot water with Oxyclean, never heard anything to indicate I should do otherwise.

Me too. Helps the oxyclean dissolvem and I don't know why you'd rinse with cold water...

 

[raceskier]

I use hot tap water for the soak and the rinse.

Anyone know if the formulation has changed recently? I also had the residue problem with the first bucket of Oxyclean I bought early this year. With the latest bucket I get, no residue at all

 

[elderbrewer]

Have I been using to mush Oxyclean? I fill the keggle with warm water to past the caked on gunk and add 4 scoops Oxclean an let soak for overnight and rinse.

 

[shafferpilot]

That does sound like a lot of oxyclean. In a 6 gallon carboy, I use about a tablespoon.... And that is PLENTY. Even in cold water it takes about 20 minutes to clean all the gunk out. I leave it soaking for a day and dump the mixture. Then I put about 2 pints of water in, shake it up and dump it. I do that about 10 times to rinse it good. Then I fill the carboy with water and add a healthy slosh of bleach and leave it until it's time to use it. Rinse about ten times with 2 pints of water again and it's ready to go.

 

[Kevin Dean]

I've read that you should first use cold water to avoid caking. My method has been to start with cold water and towards the end use very hot water. Any other recommendations?

I use hot to clean.

I use cold to rinse.

My logic there is that I want the solution to be dissolved and spread across the area which I'm "cleaning" and solids dissolve more readily in warmer environments.

Rinsing, however, my goal is to get the cleanser out of my way. Cold water (and motion) seem to do this better than a warm water rinse.

My logic might well be faulty, but I'm drunk, and cold water produces less suds, so I'll run with that.

No matter what you do, rinse well and you should be fine. Oxyclean had infomercials, which as a whole seem to be aimed at morons, so I don't think you can mess it up too badly.

 

[elderbrewer]

Kevin, I checked out your gallery, thats a cool looking stir plate, did you make it or is it a commercial item?