The oft overlooked bottle sterilization method

[Glibbidy]

This noob hasn't even bottled yet, but I can't see how a dunk in a sink full of sanitizer is more work than cleaning them, wrapping them in foil, aligning them in the oven, baking, waiting to cool, and unfoiling.

The gist I have from here and my LHBS is that the sanitizer just needs to touch the area and its clean. Dunk and you're done!

Just don't use that Freemansburg Water!

 

[Mutilated1]

i use the dishwasher. i always rinse a bottle as soon as i'm finished drinking it, then put the bottles in a box, clean but not sterilized.

then when it's time to bottle (when i still do on occasion) i just load the "clean" bottles into the dishwasher, and run the rinse cycle, followed by the heat/dry cycle to sterilize. works fine, and really takes NO effort, and the dishwasher has the "pokey" thingies to hold the bottles.

i don't understand why anybody would ever do it another way. this doesn't use/waste any expensive starsan, and does the trick.

brian

thats exactly what I do brian, I don't understand why anyone would bother to make it any more complicated than that

 

[Edcculus]

This noob hasn't even bottled yet, but I can't see how a dunk in a sink full of sanitizer is more work than cleaning them, wrapping them in foil, aligning them in the oven, baking, waiting to cool, and unfoiling.

The gist I have from here and my LHBS is that the sanitizer just needs to touch the area and its clean. Dunk and you're done!

You still have to clean the bottles, whether its right after you drink, or when you are sanitizing. Sanitizer solution is useless if there is sediment.

All in all, sanitizing 40-50 bottles is a PITA. Its really why I hate bottling. I've never really thought of this method before...but now I think I'm going to try it for bottling day tomorrow.