Quick way to sterilise spoon

[PaulDavidSumner]

Hello,

does anyone use a quick way to sterilise a spoon, for example when wanting to rouse yeast in a stuck fermentation? Like, wiping it with cloth and neat thin bleach instead of steeping in dilute sterilising solution for x number of minutes?

I have a Young's Definitive Lager in fermenting bin, start 1.040, after 13 days finally got round to taking a reading with my usual 'just bottle it after more than 10 days' strategy in mind, but it's 1.013. At 3.5% ABV it just seems that bit too much sugar left to ignore. I would have roused it tonight but it was near midnight and I couldn't be bothered to steep spoon in solution and wait. Would have been helpful if I could just wipe the spoon with thin bleach knowing it has worked for other forum members.

[TC2642]

Pour boiling water over it, It's all I do when I use a transfer hose, that'll kill most things. It's not going to be in contact of your beer for a great length of time and using bleach may contribute to off flavours in your final product.

[GrowlingDogBeer]

Hi, welcome to the forum.

To sterilise a spoon I make sure it is clean by giving it a wash and a rinse, then I spray it with a no rinse sanitiser, personally I use starsan. I big stainless steel spoon is easier than a plastic one.

I wouldn't rouse it at 1.013, that may well be as far as it is going to go, or it may be on the go slow and want a little longer.

Bleach will sanitise, but you have to rinse it off so much it's a right pain, no rinse sanitisers are much easier to use.

[Aleman]

Flame it with a Propane torch - Does not work on a plastic spoon however

[WishboneBrewery]

Just a thought... could you buy cheap Vodka or something and have a sort of Barbercide (Jar with weird blue liquid in a Barber shop) doofer so you could just pop your spoon back in the Vodka soak until next time you need to stir something?

Rather like we do at work with a FULL dustbin of Peracetic acid solution.

[mat69]

just boil the kettle

[danbrew]

just boil the kettle

...with the (metal) spoon sat inside the kettle. The handle sticks out of the top but the business end is in boiling water and steam and I get the pleasure of a cup of tea too...

[GARYSMIFF]

You could use one of these to soak all your bits in its a Wallpaper Trough save using a bucket

[PaulDavidSumner]

Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. Kettle sounds obvious now. Starsan I want to get into trying anyway as part of reducing bottling time. Steriliser you make up and keep in a bottle for later use is something I remember from my Kenridge Intro Shiraz. The wallpaper trough I remember seeing on a CraigTube video, I really should get one as at the moment I put various equipment in a bucket full of steriliser and invert the spoon every few minutes as it's too tall, not the most convenient.

I think this particular brew is on a go-slow, it's the most foam I've ever seen at the top of the fermenting bin after 13 days. I'm going to bottle it on Friday 24th regardless of what the reading is as that will be 20 days in the fermenter, time to get a move on with it.

[PaulDavidSumner]

Looks like the advice was good, it was indeed on a go-slow, thus I bottled on Fri 24 June at .010. 3.9% ABV, a welcome increase from the paltry 3.5%.