Washing Bottles In Dishwasher

[kymba]

pics pls

 

[Rowy]

Just a heads up..dont fill your dispensor completley with SPB. It started foaming up to much and came out the bottom of the dishwasher all over the floor... :icon_cheers:

Whoops..........thanks for the tip mate. I am having a chuckle at your expense at the moment though. :lol:

 

[Truman42]

Whoops..........thanks for the tip mate. I am having a chuckle at your expense at the moment though. :lol:

LOL....I had foam everywhere all over the kitchen floor..but couldnt get pics because I had to clean it up before the missus got out of the shower and saw it..LOL

 

[kymba]

LOL....I had foam everywhere all over the kitchen floor..but couldnt get pics because I had to clean it up before the missus got out of the shower and saw it..LOL

pics of the mrs straight out the shower then? lol

 

[Truman42]

pics of the mrs straight out the shower then? lol

LOL..She was to quick for that too..LOL

 

[bullsneck]

Lots of LOL'ing in this thread

 

[kymba]

they are truly sneaky truman....it pays to be one step ahead at all times. especially when it comes to evidence

no more lol from me, unless it deservers said lol. i am already way above my quota - 1 per a year

 

[Greg.L]

if you really want to check how good your dishwasher is just load it up with manky bottles that have week old sediment caked to bottom. if it doesn't get the sediment out then choose another adventure

If you leave sediment in your bottles then definitely don't use the dishwasher. The point is not to clean them but sanitise them with heat and steam. Mine come out too hot to pick up, not many germs will survive those conditions. You will never get your bottles absolutely sterile anyway, thats not the point. A lot of people don't sanitise at all, just rinse after use then refill, they rarely have trouble.

 

[Truman42]

So after you starsan your bottles and put them on your ghetto bread crate bottle tree to drain, how long can you leave them there before you risk infection?
I've always been paranoid that I have to start bottling straight away, but will they stay sanitized if you did them in the morning but didn't bottle until that afternoon for example?

 

[pk.sax]

No

Why don't you leave the starsan until just before bottling?!

Sanitising by definition is to "reduce" the amount of microbes to a very low level. Not zero. If you leave them there, unfilled, they will be swarming with them before you know it.

 

[Truman42]

No

Why don't you leave the starsan until just before bottling?!

Sanitising by definition is to "reduce" the amount of microbes to a very low level. Not zero. If you leave them there, unfilled, they will be swarming with them before you know it.

I usually do, was just interested to know how much time you had if you were delayed for some reason and couldn't bottle until later on. What would be considered a safe time frame before you needed to re-sanitise again.

 

[Greg.L]

I think "swarming" is exaggerating things. Microbes can't increase without food and water. In a clean dry bottle, there may be some settling of microbes from the atmosphere, but negligible in the short term. The number of Microbes in the bottle will be stable. I don't think there would be a difinitive time frame but a few days would be ok.

 

[komodo]

Really? **** makes me feel better about my process then!