Sodium percarbonate..

[Clint]

Hello all
My usual supplier of said stuff isn't trading any more...I used to get 5kg delivered for about £20...
Cheapest I can find is £48 for 25kg but I don't want that much and have no one to split it with..although it's cheap!
I've looked at the laundry, unscented oxi but to me it still has a smell about it...does it need loads of rinsing? I only give my usual a quick rinse and a wipe down with starsan..

 

[fury_tea]

Hello all
My usual supplier of said stuff isn't trading any more...I used to get 5kg delivered for about £20...
Cheapest I can find is £48 for 25kg but I don't want that much and have no one to split it with..although it's cheap!
I've looked at the laundry, unscented oxi but to me it still has a smell about it...does it need loads of rinsing? I only give my usual a quick rinse and a wipe down with starsan..

I use vanish oxi action "crystal white". There's a very slight smell but PBW also has a slight smell I find.

Think it was 7 quid for 1 or 1.5kg from Asda. Works as well as PBW to me, a quick rinse and any smell is gone.

 

[fury_tea]

If you can find 3 other people and you can be bothered with the faff, I'd take 5kg of the pure stuff off your hands though...

 

[Hanglow]

The ASDA own brand oxiclean is fragrance free, or at least the last time I bought some it was. works great

 

[Satellitemark]

The ASDA own brand oxiclean is fragrance free, or at least the last time I bought some it was. works great

Do you need to rinse the Asda oxiclean ?

Mark

 

[johncrobinson]

Welcome to the brave new world clint
crap for breakfast crap for tea.

powerless to stop it perhaps its best to drown in a alcohol soaked middle age
if you are self sufficient in booze truly envy you and take my hat off to you good sir.

 

[SteveH]

I'm in the same boat, not found anywhere with 5kg bags at a reasonable price, I'm also tempted by the 25kg but not got much storage space.

Last couple of brews I put a dishwasher tablet in the fv to clean and it did the same job, rinsed well tho.

 

[foxy]

There are a lot of uses for Sodium Perc so 25 kg can go pretty quick, if you haven't got a dark, cool, dry space to store it, don't buy in bulk. It can be very unstable especially if it gets a bit of moisture in it.

I'm in the same boat, not found anywhere with 5kg bags at a reasonable price, I'm also tempted by the 25kg but not got much storage space.

Last couple of brews I put a dishwasher tablet in the fv to clean and it did the same job, rinsed well tho.

Sodium Perc is good for cleaning the dishwasher, decking, driveways not good to leave it on plastic for too long.

 

[Ale House Rock]

Hello all
My usual supplier of said stuff isn't trading any more...I used to get 5kg delivered for about £20...
Cheapest I can find is £48 for 25kg but I don't want that much and have no one to split it with..although it's cheap!
I've looked at the laundry, unscented oxi but to me it still has a smell about it...does it need loads of rinsing? I only give my usual a quick rinse and a wipe down with starsan..

I was also looking around for supply. Reasonably priced at £11.85 for 2kg at biolindo.co.uk. however, then my usual supplier came up trumps so didn't order from here.

 

[fury_tea]

There are a lot of uses for Sodium Perc so 25 kg can go pretty quick, if you haven't got a dark, cool, dry space to store it, don't buy in bulk. It can be very unstable especially if it gets a bit of moisture in it.


Sodium Perc is good for cleaning the dishwasher, decking, driveways not good to leave it on plastic for too long.

Whoops I sometimes leave it inside a Jerry can to be reused at a later date, especially if it was just used once for light soiling. Can it degrade plastics?

 

[Clint]

Once it's activated it depletes and becomes inert/useless.

 

[johncrobinson]

True clint
it MUST be stored under the right conditions.

 

[Hanglow]

Do you need to rinse the Asda oxiclean ?

Mark

Yes, you'll need to rinse all these types of fabric cleaners. For dirty bottles that I forgot to rinse, I'll leave it soak for about four hours in with hot water and about a teaspoon of it in each bottle, then rinse well with hot water then rinse with starsan

for fermentors etc I tend to just leave them overnight with a few scoops in, then rinse with hot water the next day and use star san again.


I think people with hard water can have problems with minerals depositing on the surface of things being soaked with it? But an acid like star san should react with it to clean it off. Might need someone else to weigh in with their experience of that though, I have very soft water

 

[SteveH]

I think people with hard water can have problems with minerals depositing on the surface of things being soaked with it? But an acid like star san should react with it to clean it off. Might need someone else to weigh in with their experience of that though, I have very soft water

I can confirm this, we have very hard water and I once put a scoop of sodium percarbonate in the dishwasher when cleaning some bottles - they came out with a white powdery residue - a good rinse with star san took it off though.

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

I use this one: Online Food Shopping - ASDA Groceries

i think the one they do for whites contains brightening agents.

 

[Shirley Bassett]

I use HomeBargains Wizz Oxicleaner for whites. It’s £1.49 for 1kg. It has a scoop inside for measurement. I use 1 scoop in 5 litres of hot water.

i have a large plastic box that holds 80 x 500ml bottles.

i make 20 litres of solution in a fermenting bucket and sink the bottles to fill. Transfer to the plastic box. When the box is full. I add an amount extra solution to submerge the filled bottles. All of the crap in the bottles floats to the top.

i generally leave the bottles soaking overnight.

Next day I empty the bottles and rinse with cold water and then final rinse with 3 pumps of Starsan solution on an inverted bottle washer. Leave to drain/dry on a bottle tree. Any bottles not used are stored in a box. I cap them with tin foil to keep dust etc out.

In terms of water hardness I have a private borehole water supply and the conditioning system has a limestone column that raises the pH to around 7.5, it also makes the water hard.

i don’t get any residue on or in the bottles, nor do I get any noticeable smell using the above method of cleaning.

i used ASDA’s oxi for whites during lockdown and got all manner of white crystals on the bottles. I haven’t used it since.

 

[BradleyW]

For people using supermarket brand Oxy, is there any other ingredient listed? I picked up yesterday in my local supermarket a kilo of sodium perc for €1.75 (a bargain I thought). I was going to ask if the cheap supermarket stuff was any different to the much more expensive brew shop stuff?

 

[Clint]

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[The Cat]

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[Clint]

MM are charging over £70 for this!