Fermentation vessels and cleaning
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:36 am
Hello
I'm a new user to the forum. I've been dabbling in Kumbucha and Keffir over the last year.
This is probably a very novice question but i wondered what people use in terms of their fermentation vessels and how they tend to go about cleaning these.
Information around this online seems quite scattered, some places don't really mention it. Others talk about just putting them in the dish washer or regular cleaning, some talk about boiling your jugs or baking them, some talk about brewers cleaning solutions and others say you don't necessarily need to.
I've been using a kilner jar for the first ferment of kefir (or kumbucha) and transferring to flip top glass bottles for the 2nd ferment. I tend clean the bottles regularly and then bake them in the oven after each use. I looked into the cleaning solutions but these seem to leave a residue?
I just wondered how this tallies with what other people do?
Again apologies if this is a simplistic post and has been answered elsewhere.
I'm a new user to the forum. I've been dabbling in Kumbucha and Keffir over the last year.
This is probably a very novice question but i wondered what people use in terms of their fermentation vessels and how they tend to go about cleaning these.
Information around this online seems quite scattered, some places don't really mention it. Others talk about just putting them in the dish washer or regular cleaning, some talk about boiling your jugs or baking them, some talk about brewers cleaning solutions and others say you don't necessarily need to.
I've been using a kilner jar for the first ferment of kefir (or kumbucha) and transferring to flip top glass bottles for the 2nd ferment. I tend clean the bottles regularly and then bake them in the oven after each use. I looked into the cleaning solutions but these seem to leave a residue?
I just wondered how this tallies with what other people do?
Again apologies if this is a simplistic post and has been answered elsewhere.