Glass bottles

[Zutankhamun]

i have my brand new amber glass bottles delivered today.
They seem crystal clean
Should I just sterilise them in the microwave or should I wash them first even though they are really clean.

For nicotine obviously.

 

[Riplea]

Up to you. I usually just run mine under very hot tap water and let them dry out. I guess you could boil some water and pour through them as well.

 

[Eskie]

Up to you. I usually just run mine under very hot tap water and let them dry out. I guess you could boil some water and pour through them as well.

That's about it for me as well.

 

[CoreyDog]

I ultrasonic clean mine at 80°c.

Never used to bother until I ordered some new bottles once, must have been some residue on the inside as the juice I mixed in it was vile and obviously contaminated.

 

[SteveS45]

I fill them with e-Liquid because they should come cleaned and sterilized (?) unless you are buying from some cheap foreign supplier.

 

[Sylvie]

i do boil the bottles i will be transfering nic into for long term storage. Rest of the time, i just use them as i get them unless they look dusty/etc. (that only happened once when i bought them on Amazon).

 

[Cool_Breeze]

I ran mine through the dishwasher.

 

[retired1]

I fill them with e-Liquid because they should come cleaned and sterilized (?) unless you are buying from some cheap foreign supplier.

Rarely do you receive bottles in that condition. Generally, they're packaged as they come off the manufacturing line unless the customer specifies that the bottles must go through extra steps for the sterilization process which increases the cost of the product.

(Used to order glass and plastic bottles for the ex's company.)

 

[SteveS45]

Since the bottles I purchase are pharmaceutical grade I will disagree with that. Not sure what you were purchasing the bottles for so could be different.

 

[oplholik]

I just rinse out with hot tap water, shake out, and let dry.

 

[puffon]

I also rinse in hot water.
I wonder if juice companies do the same?

 

[DaveP]

Hot water rinse. Our water heater is set for 140 degrees for the dishwasher. HOT!!!

If you sling/shake them hard and set them on a paper towel with the cap off they dry quickly because they are hot from the heated water wash. Cold water, not so quickly. It's hard to dry a bottle with a small opening using a paper towel. A hair dryer would speed things up, but I let them sit while I set up the scale and the rest of my DIY supply bottles and they are dry by the time I get through with that.

 

[fiddleshe]

I rinsed mine and let them dry and I looked at them and the outside had smudges all over them of some residue so they got washed in hot soapy water. Hope that got any residue out of the inside. FYI I got these off Amazon.

 

[fiddleshe]

Now I am thinking I should boil them. I am transferring nicotine into them tomorrow.

 

[Zutankhamun]

Done mine. Hot soapy water and then a massive rinse to make sure no soap!!! And then sterilised for 1 min in the microwave, 10 at a time.
Then upside down for ages to make sure they were bone dry.

I don't think anybody really went with soap but I like to live on the edge.
47.5 100 ml bottles. That was hard work

 

[numsquat]

I wash any new bottle doing how I learned to clean/sanitize in my home brewery: a soak in PBW or Oxyclean Free, hot water rinse, hit with sanitizer (I use StarSan) and dry upside down until use.