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Scott Lindner[_1_] Scott Lindner[_1_] is offline
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Default Sterlisation

You don't need to sterilize. You only need to sanitize. One Step,
Iodophor, and StarSan are all commonly used sanitizers for this purpose.
StarSan tends to be preferred for a lot of people. Personally I like to use
Iodophor for this like bottles because Iodophor stains and is cheaper than
the others. You can't stain a bottle and since it's cheaper that's why I
use it for things like that. For things that are porous and could stain, or
for keeping a spray bottle of sanitizer on hand to spray tools or other
things I like to use Star San. It is stable as a sanitizer in solution in a
spray bottle for a longer period than Iodophor. I don't know much about One
Step but the one time I used it I personally didn't care for it.

True sterilizing takes heat and pressure. I know folks that maintain
cultures of yeast that sterilize their lab equipment for maintaining the
yeast cultures but for everything else they only sanitize. They sterilize
by using a pressure cooker for 20 minutes.

Regards,
Scott