Lonnie Mac
Well-Known Member
1- Buffer pads are NOT food safe.
2-Aquarium media is a lot different than a buffer pad.
If someone brewed with their thumb in their ass, and claimed it made better beer would you try it? Apparently it was a fad, and a crazy one at that. If you or someone else wants to do it, more power to you, it gives me the creeps.
Actually a little reading... As I recall in our green board debates, Palmer, working for 3M, had approached this question with 3M. Of course 3M is not going to put a friggin food safe label on a floor buffer pad. Neither will China put one on our brass QD's and fittings that most of us use in our brewery, nor can one prove that your cast iron skillet is actually food safe. But he had discovered that there is nothing in this (nylon) pad that can harm you. I would say that they became somewhat popular for a short while, but with the advent of mash recirculation it all was for not.
