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Bottle Sanitation Questionnaire
I am on a college design team that is attempting to develop an automated method of cleaning and sanitizing bottles marketed for home use. Please help us by answering a few questions about your experiences!
1. Which process do you use to clean bottles prior to filling and sealing (soaking, sanitizing, rinsing, scrubbing, etc)?
2. How many bottles can you clean in an hour using that process?
3. Would you purchase a semi-automated product that allowed you to increase the number of bottles you can clean in an hour?
4. If so, which of the following would most influence your decision to purchase? Please rank 1-4, 1 being the most important, 4 being the least important.
-Cost (price tag, value)
-Appearance (size, color, feel comfortable keeping it next to the toaster)
-Degree of sanitation (cleaning by hand vs. clean enough for the FDA to allow you to sell your product)
-Ease of use (easy to set up, no instructions needed).
Thank you for your time! It is greatly appreciated!
BuckyBrewer wrote:
I am on a college design team that is attempting to develop an automated method of cleaning and sanitizing bottles marketed for home use. Please help us by answering a few questions about your experiences!
1. Which process do you use to clean bottles prior to filling and sealing (soaking, sanitizing, rinsing, scrubbing, etc)?
2. How many bottles can you clean in an hour using that process?
3. Would you purchase a semi-automated product that allowed you to increase the number of bottles you can clean in an hour?
4. If so, which of the following would most influence your decision to purchase? Please rank 1-4, 1 being the most important, 4 being the least important.
-Cost (price tag, value)
-Appearance (size, color, feel comfortable keeping it next to the toaster)
-Degree of sanitation (cleaning by hand vs. clean enough for the FDA to allow you to sell your product)
-Ease of use (easy to set up, no instructions needed).
Thank you for your time! It is greatly appreciated!
1. Drink, rinse, dishwasher (sanitize setting)
2. Not many. I drink slowly. Skipping the drinking part, 480 per hour but dishwasher only holds 50.
3. No. It's easier and cheaper to keg.
4. N/A
BuckyBrewer wrote:
I am on a college design team that is attempting to develop an automated method of cleaning and sanitizing bottles marketed for home use. Please help us by answering a few questions about your experiences!
1. Which process do you use to clean bottles prior to filling and sealing (soaking, sanitizing, rinsing, scrubbing, etc)?
2. How many bottles can you clean in an hour using that process?
3. Would you purchase a semi-automated product that allowed you to increase the number of bottles you can clean in an hour?
4. If so, which of the following would most influence your decision to purchase? Please rank 1-4, 1 being the most important, 4 being the least important.
-Cost (price tag, value)
-Appearance (size, color, feel comfortable keeping it next to the toaster)
-Degree of sanitation (cleaning by hand vs. clean enough for the FDA to allow you to sell your product)
-Ease of use (easy to set up, no instructions needed).
Thank you for your time! It is greatly appreciated!
1) high pressure bottle wash, soak in sanitizing solution, air dry.
2) about 55.
3) I'd consider it.
4) in order of importance: 3, 1, 4, 2
DC
I normally rinse bottles with hot water when empty. When I need to I'll give 'em a soak in PBW for an hour or two, sometimes over night if the labels don't want to come off. I sanitize them with Star-san. I'm not sure how many I can clean and sanitize in an hour. I do a case at a time. It takes me about 20 minutes or so to sanitize 62 bottles.
I'd definately buy any thing that makes bottling less of a pain in the ass.
in order:2,4,1,3
1. Soak in Oxy Clean. Then I give some a scrubbing if they need it and rinse. I sanitize in a bucket on bottling day.
2. If the bottles aren't too bad, which normally they aren't, then probably around 100-200.
3. Probably not - If I'm going to spend more money then it'll probably be on more kegs.
4. NA
Mortician wrote:
I'd definately buy any thing that makes bottling less of a pain in the ass.
KEGGING! I'm kegging up my first batch this afternoon and I'm psyched that its only going to take 15 minutes.
FirePitBrew wrote:
Mortician wrote:
I'd definately buy any thing that makes bottling less of a pain in the ass.KEGGING! I'm kegging up my first batch this afternoon and I'm psyched that its only going to take 15 minutes.
I'd love to keg...If I had another fridge, and the room for it. (fridge and kegging equiptment) I have a small house, but I'm trying to figure out a way to make it work. Plus I still gotta convince the wife to let me buy a second fridge in the first place.
Besides, I'll never give up bottling all together anyway. Bottles are more portable.
1. Soak in hot water with a few drops of dish detergent to aid in removing labels. Santize using a no-rinse product, and drying on a bottle tree. If they sit out for a while, a quick wipe down or spray of sanitizer as well.
2. I use a 5 gallon bucket, stand them up and squeeze them in, making sure they all get filled as much as possible. Not enough for a full 5 gallon batch in one bucket, usually have to do it twice with a little less the second time around.
3. Not too likely.... I'll move to kegging eventually, and only bottle what I need to leave the house or give away.
4. 1, 3, 4, 2
Thanks to all of you for your help!
At this point, my team will be continuing with development. If anyone else cares to chime in, we can use more answers to this question:
"Which of the following would most influence your decision to purchase? Please rank the following from most important to least important."
a. Cost (price tag, value)
b. Appearance (size, color, feel comfortable keeping it next to the toaster)
c. Degree of sanitation (cleaning by hand vs. clean enough for the FDA to allow you to sell your product)
d. Ease of use (easy to set up, no instructions needed)."
BuckyBrewer wrote:
"Which of the following would most influence your decision to purchase? Please rank the following from most important to least important."
a. Cost (price tag, value)
b. Appearance (size, color, feel comfortable keeping it next to the toaster)
c. Degree of sanitation (cleaning by hand vs. clean enough for the FDA to allow you to sell your product)
d. Ease of use (easy to set up, no instructions needed)."
A, C, D, B
BuckyBrewer wrote:
I am on a college design team that is attempting to develop an automated method of cleaning and sanitizing bottles marketed for home use. Please help us by answering a few questions about your experiences!
1. Which process do you use to clean bottles prior to filling and sealing (soaking, sanitizing, rinsing, scrubbing, etc)?
2. How many bottles can you clean in an hour using that process?
3. Would you purchase a semi-automated product that allowed you to increase the number of bottles you can clean in an hour?
4. If so, which of the following would most influence your decision to purchase? Please rank 1-4, 1 being the most important, 4 being the least important.
-Cost (price tag, value)
-Appearance (size, color, feel comfortable keeping it next to the toaster)
-Degree of sanitation (cleaning by hand vs. clean enough for the FDA to allow you to sell your product)
-Ease of use (easy to set up, no instructions needed).
Thank you for your time! It is greatly appreciated!
1) Clean when empty, store dry, when ready to bottle, rinse and sanitize (Star San)
2) No idea. I do it a few at a time over time and sanitization takes appx 20 min
3) Maybe
4) Cost, degree of sanitation, ease of use, appearance (I could care less what it looks like as long as it works)
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