Using Dishwasher To Clean And Sanitize Bottles

[chappy71]

Hi, Can you use your dishwasher to clean your bottles, and does it also sanitize?

 

[reviled]

ive heard of people cleaning bottles in the dishwasher, and I guess it may sanitise if it went through a wash with no powder, it would depend on how hot the washing machine gets...

I wouldnt want to put them in there with the dishwashing powder and then not rinse them after :icon_vomit:

 

[QldKev]

Hi, Can you use your dishwasher to clean your bottles, and does it also sanitize?

Good to clean the outside, but not soo good at cleaning the inside. Sanatizing is pretty good; only issue is it's very hard to fit 30 bottles in there, so you need to do multiple batches. IMHO not worth the time..

Do a search there's been many posts.

QldKev

 

[bluejed]

If the temp is set high enough, and the time will need to be considered (15min @ 70oC) will sterilize the bottles. You may have an issue ensuring the water gets up into every bottle and I would be unsure using the dishwasher detergent (Alkaline base)

 

[Pollux]

I remember someone made a rack with a series of upright spokes that the bottles were sat on, this linked up to the port that normally shoots water into the rotating arm....

It was a thing of beauty, can't confirm how well it worked though.

 

[Macca17]

I remember someone made a rack with a series of upright spokes that the bottles were sat on, this linked up to the port that normally shoots water into the rotating arm....

It was a thing of beauty, can't confirm how well it worked though.

I remember that post, found it

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...p;hl=dishwasher

 

[MarkBastard]

I remember that post, found it

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...p;hl=dishwasher

Wow!

But it begs the question, why not make a rack like that, or even a 'tree', and have it hooked directly up to the hot water tap? And optionally have a little compartment between the water inlet and the tree where you can put your detergent of choice, kinda like the way those car wash brushes with in built detergent dispensers work.

 

[zebba]

Wow!

But it begs the question, why not make a rack like that, or even a 'tree', and have it hooked directly up to the hot water tap?

I'd say it's cause the water out of your hot water tap isn't nearly as hot as it gets in the dishwasher. I might be wrong though...

personally, I time my bottle regime to coincide with the end of a dish cycle. Put the dishes away, then use the clean and (mostly) sanitised racks in the dishwasher to hold the bottles upside down while they drain

 

[MarkBastard]

Fair point.

Though I reckon if you made up a bottle tree that hooks up to your hot water tap, and has two selectable reservoirs to hold a cleaner (e.g. sodium percarbonate) and a sanitiser (e.g. starsan), as well as having the option to have straight water, that'd be awesome.

You could start with just hot water to clear out easy gunk. Then switch to sodium percarbonate and give it a blast, then give it a couple of rinses and then finally blast with the starsan and let drip dry.

 

[zebba]

that'd be awesome.

I'd want one

 

[Scotty]

I use the dishwasher to sanitise my bottles, I first rinse all the sediment out then just pop them in. I also take out the top rack and do my fermenters too!!! Never in the 7 years of doing this have i had an infection, bad flavours or any problems at all.

Scotty

 

[krusty_oz]

It would work well if you get the stuff squirted up the bottles. Plus you could do your fermenter in it.

Just had a look at the MSDS for a couple dishwasher powders, contains Sodium Carbonate (component of bottle cleaner), Sodium Tripolyphospate (cleaner component of pink stain/neo pink), some sodium percarbonate and surfactants. Rinse aid contains Potassium Sorbate and combined with the high drying temperature, would help finish off any yeast that survived the hot caustic wash.

Only thing to watch for is the rinse aid residue effecting head. Easy to test by putting a beer glass through a cycle and seeing how it goes.

 

[HoppingMad]

If you were going to be excessively meticulous about sanitising, I'd wipe down the inside of the dishwasher first to make sure it's free of food residue, and clear the excess food scraps out of the filter in the base of it.

Know the heat should do you fine, but if you've ever checked that little filter thingy the stuff that gets stuck in there will disgust and amaze you. Wouldn't want that circulating in my beer. You'll find it if you roll the bottom dish rack out of your machine and look in the base. Lift a flap and check out the compost that's been sitting in there in the little plastic basket! Yum!

Hopper.