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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / November 2004how do you sterilize water bottles?
I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) >I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with > one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) Freezing does not disinfect. It may kill some bacteria, but certainly not all of them. Soap remains the best general purpose disinfectant. Of course, if your water is not aseptic, your efforts are moot. It also depends on what you mean when you say water bottles. If they're HDPE, you're probably OK, but other materials are not intended for reuse and should be recycled instead. Lar > >I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with > > one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Lar they are pop bottles. the only reason i ask is that i feel sick and it does not feel like the flu. i guess i could buy water bottles designed for reuse. i would have to get special brush to wash insides. damn this will be a lot of work. > I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with > one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) freezing merely puts things into suspended status. the little buggers will reactivate when thawed. > I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with > one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) Is this a statement, question, or moment of mental weakness? Microwaving is NOT fine as it causes plastic to leach into the water. Just thought that you might want to know. -- John Gohde >> I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with >> one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Just thought that you might want to know. Leach what? >>> I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with >>> one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Leach what? Plastic monomers such as bisphenol-A, in the case of polycarbonates, for example. Or polyol plasticizers in other cases. Phthalates, in yet other cases. There are precious few plastics which are safe in the microwave, and little information available to determine just which one you have in front of you. Lar >>>> I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with >>>> one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >little information available to determine just which one you have in front >of you. I was actually asking the poster who made the sweeping, inaccurate statement, thanks. It sounded like he was saying that the polymer per se leached into the water. I was aware that some plastics were risky for microwave use. It has been well publicised here. The most dangerous is the leaching of vinyI chloride monomer from PVC cling film and meat wrappers, but they were warned about (and withdrawn from sale here) years ago. I was going to ask him about the HDPE microwave-safe plastic utensils. There are many for sale here. Not in North America yet? > >>>> I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with > >>>> one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I was actually asking the poster who made the sweeping, inaccurate > statement, thanks. Perhaps, if you were to focus? You seem to be confused as to just who the idiot is here? You have my condolences, 'the Man' don't play that way. Just remember, oh lowly wonder, that it was moi and not you who first introduced this topic on this thread. Just my opinion, but I am right as usual. :) -- john gohde > I was actually asking the poster who made the sweeping, inaccurate > statement, thanks. Let me not stand in the way of your interaction with Herr Gohde. He was Twit of the Month, and Twit of the Year, if memory serves me. > > I was actually asking the poster who made the sweeping, inaccurate > > statement, thanks. > > Let me not stand in the way of your interaction with Herr Gohde. He was Twit > of the Month, and Twit of the Year, if memory serves me. Let me recall then Larry 'the Mover': The only thing you ever moved was a lot of excess weight! Ha, ... Hah, Ha! The fact still remains that moi was the first person on this thread to set the facts straight. I let the little people write the unimportant details. Just thought that you might want to know. :) -- john gohde >The fact still remains that moi was the first person on this thread to >set the facts straight. You mean the incorrect generalisation about the commonly known dangers of plastics in microwaves? Are you up yourself just tonight, or are you constantly that way? Don't bother to answer, I've been warned about you and I'm intending to ignore you from now on. > >The fact still remains that moi was the first person on this thread to > >set the facts straight. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > you constantly that way? Don't bother to answer, I've been warned > about you and I'm intending to ignore you from now on. I suggest you look up the definitions for: delusional pathological liar living in one's own private world Next try looking into the mirror once in a while. -- john gohde > >The fact still remains that moi was the first person on this thread to > >set the facts straight. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > you constantly that way? Don't bother to answer, I've been warned > about you and I'm intending to ignore you from now on. In the real world, you would be defined as a person who cannot cope with everyday life or reality. Just thought that you might want to know that I think that you are nothing but an academic A-hole. :) Cheers ... -- john gohde >> >The fact still remains that moi was the first person on this thread to >> >set the facts straight. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Cheers ... John, if you had simply taken my advice years ago and went for that lobotomy things would have been fine here. You have the gaul to call someone else an A-hole? Isn't *that* the kettle calling the pot black! :o) Regards. Rob >> I was actually asking the poster who made the sweeping, inaccurate >> statement, thanks. > >Let me not stand in the way of your interaction with Herr Gohde. He was Twit >of the Month, and Twit of the Year, if memory serves me. OK, thanks for the tip. Thought he might be something like that. >I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with >one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) What's wrong with bleach? Oxidising is probably the best way to denature protein. Try hydrogen peroxide. Freezing does nothing. > What's wrong with bleach? Oxidising is probably the best way to > denature protein. Try hydrogen peroxide. Freezing does nothing. Hydrogen peroxide is a good solution to your problem (buy it in any drugstore - preferably when on sale- usually for 1/2 price;-). Another option: consider purchasing a water ozonator for your kitchen (google it and you will find plenty of info on the advantages of ozonation). Boil them for ten minutes. That will sterilize them and also get rid of the detergent left on them after you wash them. Ora >I fill them with water and put them in freezer. kill two birds with >one stone. please don't mention bleach. thanks.(microwave is fine) |
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