Heavens no, don't cook the bottles after they are filled. Cook them with the lids off before you use them. They evaporate and diffuse out of the oven.
Marshall Katarina Wittich wrote: > Hi Marshall, > so once the volatiles come out of the plastic into the water where do they > go? Don't they say in and contaminate your cs further? > Katarina > > > Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 11:03:36 -0400 > > From: Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: CS>rose color cs > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > If you are getting any taste from plastic bottles it is easy to fix that. > Taste > > is caused by any volatile compounds in the plastic diffusing out into the > > contents. The migration of volatiles goes up rapidly with temperature, so > > you > > can put the bottles in an oven set for 150 F for 24 hours and drive them > > out. > > > > Be sure to preheat the oven before putting in the bottles. I found that > > ovens > > will overshoot as much as 100 F when they are warming up, and HDPE melts at > > about 210 F. I sure had a mess the first time I tried it, but by waiting > > till > > it is warm first I have not melted any more. > > > > Marshall > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
