Bottles in question are the 120ml twist top ones from Chefs Flavours.
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I admittedly have never washed a new bottle prior to mixing. I’ve always bought my bottles from River and they seemingly are clean and come nicely wrapped. I rinse bottles with just water after use. I’ve used soap in the past and i had to toss them because of the soap, I didn’t trust that if I could still smell the soap that there wasn’t still some in there somehow. I still probably won’t wash my bottles prior to use. I think that bacteria can only live on objects for a certain period of time and I’ve never had issues. Depends on where I get bottles from moving forward. 🖤
Same as you - I basically wash new bottles, then only ever rinse them periodically or if I'm changing flavours. I normally have 3/4 unicorn bottles on the go that just get decanted from their batch mixing bottles, continuously. Never had any problems.
I also don't like the idea of using soap in anything that's coming remotely close to my lungs, even more so in a narrow necked bottle where you might not be able to get all of the residue out (fine bottle brushes exist, but still).
If I was going to deep clean bottles I'd be tempted by isopropyl alcohol and salt, but it depends on the plastic type I guess. That stuff eats some plastics.
Definitely a quick wash in warm soapy water followed by thorough rinsing and air drying.
I’ve never washed a bottle. Maybe I’m being naive
A nice rinse with warm soapy water is sufficient to me. If you wanna get crazy google baby bottle sanitizer. After that it really depends on you and how clean the water from your tap is. If you don’t think your bottles are clean enough spend additional monies on distilled water.
I always wash mine before using them. The plastic factories don't sanitize them before packaging them.
Welp RIP my 50ml I mixed on post day.. I did kind of think this (as you do with baking trays, bottles and basically any other product that comes into contact with food) but for whatever reason didn't wash them right away. Just giving them a rinse now. Thanks
Seriously don't worry about it. I've never pre-washed my bottles and have never had any issues. Propylene glycol is a known anti-bacterial. Give em a rinse with water if you want, but don't use soap - plastic has a way of grabbing onto soapy flavor, especially LDPE (I learned this the hard way when I first started).
I only use glass bottles and toss them in boiling water for a minute. Been using it same bottles for years.
Like those glass pipette dropper bottles? If so, can you use boiling water in the pipette?
You can remove the rubber from the glass pipette and just do a semi-quick dip in boiling water with the rubber tips. I usually just wear some dishwasher gloves and just use my electric tea kettle water to shake around in the bottles, and pour thru the glass pipe and set it all put to dry. I can still kinda smell the flavor that was last in the glass but it doesnt ever affect the flavor of a different recipe. Glass has always been my favorite even tho the pipettes can be a pain sometimes with thicker juices Edit: i have never rinsed/cleaned a brand new bottle
Ngl I've never washed either, they seemed clean enough, PG is anti bacterial and honestly Im more concerned if I wash them and they never dry. Only ones I washed first were glass dripper bottles I bought for reusable mixing cause I dont trust amazon lol. Never a problem otherwise thus far
For storing nic I rinsed my glass bottles with tap water and then boiled in distilled water. About to order my plastic bottles now and I'm just gonna rinse them with hot water.. really don't see a point in doing anything more than that it would be a waste of time. They are cheap and you might reuse each one 2-3 times and toss them then anyways
It depends. I ran a small business bottling juices for a while and we always washed them first, even though I never really saw anything in them that required washing - except sometimes dust from standing in a warehouse somewhere.
At the very least if I was you I would just give them a quick rinse