I have been buying the sterilizing powder for bottles etc. for a while now and I am wondering if the tablets and liquid that mothers use for sterilizing babies food & drinking utensils would give the same results as it is much cheaper than the powder ?
Sterilizing Alternative
May 22, 2010
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Heat clean bottles to 181°F (83°C) with hot water for 20 min., or you may be able to slowly heat a batch in your oven, but warm and cool slowly.
Never tried it but... In a recently obtained cheesemaking book, the author (a cheesemaker for quite a number of years) recommends baby steriliser for cheesemaking.
I use a bottle sterilizer with 1/4 tsp powder "C-Brite" to sterilize bottles. Flush inside bottle and rinse afterwards.
Lets understand you don't sterilize, you sanitize wine bottles. A big difference. Use 3 tbls of meta to a gallon of water. (cheap) after use put in a 1 gal carboy w/airlock for use again later. Also add sone to a spray bottle so you can sanitize your tools.
Tom
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