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One Step Sanitizer
I may be wrong, but I don't think iodophor will last as long as Star San. When I used to sanitize with it, I think the longest it ever lasted for myself was a month. Star San keeps for several months.
Besides, Star San is a better overall sanitizer, has foaming action which iodophor doesn't have, and it food grade. I have racked my beer right over the top of the suds with excellent results.
I usually initially clean with One Step and then rinse. Then when I go to use something (bottles, brushes caps, etc.) I spray it down with Star San. One step works great to remove gunk and debris off of equipment and star san is great to "prep" equipment prior to use. The both work well in spray bottles as well.
I use a one step santizer as well, after sanitizing my bottles and fermenters, I rinse
with vodka.
Bucky here .Hey guys I have been using one step for over five years! It was told to me by a great brewer of wines.He uses it in all of his commercial stores and for his winery! The great thing about it is just rinse and forget it.I realy like it.I again strongly recommened one-step-even at my home I useit and have made over forty batches and no problems.I have some of my friends that use other things like bead -brite or somthing else then have to do the dance and re-rinse all that you cleaned.That is why its called one step and again its great.Happy brewing folkes and good holidays! Kevin
Actually, Iodophor loses its effectiveness in roughly 24 hours. Its color lightens at about the same pace as it becomes weaker. Roughly 24 hours later it will look like plain water and should be tossed.
Yes I believe it is the same as Oxy-Clean. Here is a more comprehensive link:
http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/cg … amp;id=529
My concern would be that Oxy-Clean and other cleansers which use sodium percarbonate would add fragrances and other surfactants to make the cleaning more thorough. You don;t want this in your beer. Even the "free" versions of these cleansers could be tainted as in the US at least you are only required to list the "active" ingredients and other things in cleasers are not listed.
Perhaps Oxy-Clean is cheaper than One Step but beyound this I do not see an advantage.
I use Iodophor. I just dump it when I'm done. Works great and doesn't affect taste at all.
DC
I find that One Step doesn't dissolve as well as Oxy Clean but both seem to do the job just fine as long as you're using it as a cleanser and not a sanitizer. After using Oxy Clean, I use Star San to sanitize.
I have been using generic Walmart sodium percarbonate with the label "SUN" for 5 years; a quart of the powder sells for $2. I used onestep for the first few batches but got tired of paying so much for it. A little research showed me that the active ingredient in onestep is sodium percarbonate and I found an unscented generic substitute. Since it is so cheap, I use the "SUN" cleaner very liberally (i.e. teaspoon in every bottle to be soaked prior to bottling). Evidently I got something right because I have never had any of my batches or bottled beer/wine go bad.
scaryjello wrote:
Since it is so cheap, I use the "SUN" cleaner very liberally (i.e. teaspoon in every bottle to be soaked prior to bottling).
How easy is it to completely rinse out? One rinse or several? Have you used it in carboys?
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