The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Penninehillbilly on August 18, 2018, 04:39:10 pm
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OK, this may sound horrible to some, but OH brings thing home from skips, really useful, sometimes 'brand new still in packet' things.
I asked him to watch out for some cutlery, very useful in garden for various little jobs.
He brought a beautiful canteen of cutlery, even with fruit spoons, stainless steel.
Far too nice to use in garden, so thinking of sterilizing and using it.
Thinking of putting them in pressure cooker and cooking on high for 5 or 10 minutes. What do you think? Should I? And would that sterilize them?
They do look clean, they were in a proper box.
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'Proper' sterilization would be 15 mins @ 121C or higher... no harm in doing so with stainless. Whether that destroys the Novichok they've been dipped in is another matter ....You can also dry heat sterilize just in the over or soak in bleach..
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Yup. There's not much that will survive a pressure cooker cycle.
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'Proper' sterilization would be 15 mins @ 121C or higher... no harm in doing so with stainless. Whether that destroys the Novichok they've been dipped in is another matter ....You can also dry heat sterilize just in the over or soak in bleach..
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wot he said, don't bother with the oven method I found it melted the handles !
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'Proper' sterilization would be 15 mins @ 121C or higher... no harm in doing so with stainless. Whether that destroys the Novichok they've been dipped in is another matter ....You can also dry heat sterilize just in the over or soak in bleach..
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wot he said, don't bother with the oven method I found it melted the handles !
That's a good point, handles look mother of pearl-ish, but some form of plastic.
Only keeping fruit spoons and those knives, got enough other stuff.
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Ah, if they have plastic type handles, forget the pressure cooker then, unless you do a sacrificial test on one or two to make sure they're ok first.
I'm now voting for a dishwasher followed by a wee soak in Milton disinfectant?
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Don't have a dishwasher (just me ;D )
I think my bottle of sterizer says not to use on metal, I'll have a look later.
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' Whether that destroys the Novichok they've been dipped in is another matter ....You can also dry heat sterilize just in the over or soak in bleach..
Ha Ha, just twigged the bit about Novichok, putting it into steam may not be the best of ideas.
If you hear about a couple from a West Yorkshire farm..........
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could you brag a dishwasher tablet from a neighbour and just soak in that with very hot water … would be enough.
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could you brag a dishwasher tablet from a neighbour and just soak in that with very hot water … would be enough.
we still have some powder from when we did have a dishwasher will try that, thanks.
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If we really need something clean then smear a little butter or marmite on it and let the dog do the work! Excellent on casserole dishes and stew saucepans - just takes a rinse after ;D
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If we really need something clean then smear a little butter or marmite on it and let the dog do the work! Excellent on casserole dishes and stew saucepans - just takes a rinse after ;D
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Our lab would probably eat the cutlery as well. I'm sure he takes a think layer of plastic off every time he gets his tongue into the goat buckets when they've finished with them.
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Pretty sure our old collie used to lick the patterns off plates... either that or we'd been eating from dirty plates for years before we got the dogs!
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Pretty sure our old collie used to lick the patterns off plates... either that or we'd been eating from dirty plates for years before we got the dogs!
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