Sanitize glass carboy in dishwasher?

[diafygi]

I have several 1 gallon glass jugs that I'm thinking about using as mini trial-fermenters. I was thinking about just throwing them in the dishwasher for a sanitize cycle.

They are already cleaned and rinsed, but I figured I could let the dishwasher do the sanitation work since I'm feeling particularly lazy. I know most of the water won't get up in the jugs, but the main sanitizer is the heat, right?

I know many of you sanitize bottles in the dishwasher. Anyone ever tried sanitizing a primary fermenter in the dishwasher?

 

[broadbill]

I don't think I would bother with the dishwasher for that number of jugs. Its really not that much work to give them a quick dip into some no-rinse sanitizer. 50 12oz bottles is a different story...

 

[IrregularPulse]

make up 1 qt of starsan solution pour into one jug put lid on and shake for 10 seconds. take lid off pour into next jug and recap. Repeat.

 

[diafygi]

make up 1 qt of starsan solution pour into one jug put lid on and shake for 10 seconds. take lid off pour into next jug and recap. Repeat.

Obviously that is the standard and quickest way, but as I said, I'm feeling particularly lazy. Can't I just put them in the dishwasher and sit in front of the TV for an hour (with a homebrew, of course) while modern technology does all the work?

 

[broadbill]

Obviously that is the standard and quickest way, but as I said, I'm feeling particularly lazy. Can't I just put them in the dishwasher and sit in front of the TV for an hour (with a homebrew, of course) while modern technology does all the work?

It sounds like you are an explorer on a new frontier of laziness!

I know in my household, the dishwasher always has a few dirty dishes in it; it the time it would take me to empty the dishwasher of dirty dishes and load it up, I could be done with sanitizing those jugs by hand...

Out of curiosity, how do you work up the ambition to actually brew?

 

[diafygi]

Out of curiosity, how do you work up the ambition to actually brew?

Ha, it's mostly that I just hate cleaning. I love brewing and tasting, but the cleaning/sanitizing gets soooo repetitive and boring.

So it sounds like it would be theoretically possible. I just wondered if anyone had done it before and had any problems with heating the glass or anything else.

 

[user 53515]

What kind of jugs are you using? Those 4L carlo rossi wine jugs? Those things are about $9 in my local grocery store and I was thinking of picking a couple up to do some small all grain test batches (I've done strictly extract+steeping grains so far).

Alternately, I noticed that my local grocery store has 1 gallon PETE (#1) bottles and 2.5 gallon HDPE (#2) water bottles. I was thinking of use those as "throw away" fermenters. Use it for a couple weeks for a single batch, then toss.

The plastic ones are full of spring water (which I was going to use for the brew) The wine bottles I'd have to drink all the wine first (what a tradgedy!).

 

[malkore]

I don't like heat sanitizing glass.

Cool. Hot. Cool. Hot. Cool. Hot...CRACK.

plus it costs more to run the power, and the water, plus the heat created by the heat sanitize cycle (which your A/C then has to cool back down) all so you could watch tv...

30 seconds of star-san and you could STILL go watch tv!