sterilising bottles with iodophor - best method?

[drmick]

Hi All

I order some iodophor and want to use it as a no rinse sanitiser on a batch of bottles this weekend. Whats the best way to do this? I was originally thinking of filling an empty FV with water and iodophor (0.6ml per L) and then submerging/filling a few bottles at a time, waiting 30 seconds then emptying them out and leaving them to drain. However most of the posts say to make it up in a spray bottle - do you just spray the inside of the bottles a few times and leave it for 30 seconds before emptying it out and leaving to drain? In my mind this doesn't seem like it would come in to contact with all the bottle but if thats the established method that works then I guess it must. Just after a bit of reassurance before doing this as don't want to waste 40 pints of Riggwelter (made it up following the recipe in GW's book and it currently smells fantastic so don't want to lose it)

Thanks

drmick

[drmick]

cheers Chris for the quick reply, with most things I tend to add more than necessary but will force myself to resist the temptation

[edit1now]

I use one of these - a high-quality plastic job from Italy. I put a litre of acidified Videne solution in it (12 ppm or 1.25ml in 1l), give the clean bottles a quick squirt on the Blast rinser to remove dust, spiders and so on and then two squirts on the "Avvinatore". Don't forget to dunk the necks of the bottles in the solution as well. Then the bottles go on the bottle tree to drain.