Pressure cooker for sterilizing

[nocigsnomore]

Read that baby bottles can be sterilized that way. Will try it on bottles. Wonder if tanks can be sterilized that way? Read that one should build pressure to max and then turn the stove off. It's also about using it for that in the manual for my cooker.

 

[Izan]

This seems like a lot more effort than it is worth. What are your motivations/reasons for doing this?
A new bottle "should" be clean. A recycled e liquid bottle just needs to be deodorized.
PG/VG both posses anti-bacterial properties.

Cheers
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[nocigsnomore]

Thank you! Thought I had to clean new bottles, so it's a relief that I don't! A pressure cooker is fast to get going, but I think I will use it for food only.

 

[fratervapor]

It is indeed possible to sterilize most things in a pressure canner / cooker; the rule of thumb is to process the clean item 10 minutes at 10# of pressure. If you were going to be a stickler about it you'd allow it to vent first 10 minutes before pressurizing, and cool naturally afterward (no quenching).

But the intense heat may melt things like post insulators, poor quality orings, etc. Glass and metal would be fine.

 

[nocigsnomore]

Thank you! Highly appreciated. Had no clue. Will use my ultrasonic for everything else then.

 

[nocigsnomore]

Did a little test at low pressure, but it didn't go very well.

 

[zoiDman]

Thank you! Thought I had to clean new bottles, so it's a relief that I don't! A pressure cooker is fast to get going, but I think I will use it for food only.

I think Any new bottle you buy should be Cleaned before you put an e-liquid in it. But just a hand wash in Mild Soap n' Water seems like it should be sufficient.

Putting Inexpensive Glass Bottles in Boiling Water is a good recipe for how to Crack a Glass Bottle.

And putting a LDPE Bottle in Boiling Water can be akin to Melting green army men with a Lighter.

 

[fratervapor]

Did a little test at low pressure, but it didn't go very well.

Yup, you did it right. Normal plastics die in the heat. Thermoplastics (usually marked "autoclave safe") will survive the ordeal intact.