best method of cleaning sterilising syphon tubing?

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I've been brewing just over a year now and have got as far as AG#7 (my 32nd brew). Yet still, it baffles me the best and least fiddly way of cleaning and sterilising the above.... The reason I ask now is because I'm beginning to feel that my syphon tubing (which normally sterilise by boiling or soaking in boiling water) is harbouring a minor infection. I've thrown it out now but anyway, pertaining to the last sentence - any suggestions?. I'm loath to use any kind of steriliser that needs loads of rinsing because these tubes as we all know are a pain in the _. Here's hoping for few solutions!

[Kev888]

In most cases my process is to sanitise the empty/recieving vessel with bleach solution and submerge the syphon tube in that at the same time, then decant the solution into a temporary vessel, rinse everything and do the syphoning and then clean the previously full vessel with the retained bleach solution, again with the syphon tube submerged in it before more rinsing. But I always run hot water through the syphon tube immediately after use, before anything can dry in there, and it leaves it pretty much spotless even before the bleach.

If I don't have a vessel of bleach solution I nornally fill a small bucket with starsan solution and coil the tube into that - the starsan goes back in its storage bottle again afterwards, no rinsing needed.

The main deficiency that I can see with my approach is the length of time it takes to clear any condensation from the tube afterwards - shorter tubes can just be hung up vertically to dry and evaporate but longer tubes seem to sit there for ages with moist deposits inside; not the best really.

Cheers
kev