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*Vinegar and Hydrogen Peroxide as Disinfectants
By Judy Stouffer, B.S., M.S., SFO
You can make your kitchen a cleaner, safer place and fight bacteria, without exposing yourself and your family to toxic chemicals that also damage the environment. You can use a simple safe disinfecting spray that is more effective than any of the commercial cleaners in killing bacteria. As a bonus, it is inexpensive!
Susan Sumner, a food scientist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, worked out the recipe for just such a sanitizing combo. All you need is three percent hydrogen peroxide, the same strength available at the drug store for gargling or disinfecting wounds, and plain white or apple cider vinegar, and a pair of brand new clean sprayers, like the kind you use to dampen laundry before ironing.
If you're cleaning vegetables or fruit, just sprits them well first with both the vinegar and the hydrogen peroxide, and then rinse them off under running water.
It doesn't matter which you use first - you can spray with the vinegar then the hydrogen peroxide, or with the hydrogen peroxide followed by the vinegar. You won't get any lingering taste of vinegar or hydrogen peroxide, and neither is toxic to you if a small amount remains on the produce.
As a bonus: The paired sprays work exceptionally well in sanitizing counters and other food preparation surfaces -- including wood cutting boards.
In tests run at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, pairing the two mists killed virtually all Salmonella, Shigella, or E. coli bacteria on heavily contaminated food and surfaces when used in this fashion, making this spray combination more effective at killing these potentially lethal bacteria than chlorine bleach or any commercially available kitchen cleaner.
The best results came from using one mist right after the other - it is 10 times more effective than using either spray by itself and more effective than mixing the vinegar and hydrogen peroxide in one sprayer.
Science News August 8, 1998; Vol. 154, Issue. 6; pg. 83-85 DISINFECTANT SCIENCE

*Best cheapest sanitizing agent I have found is one mist bottle full of white vinegar, another mist bottle full of H202.
Spray one on, wait a minute, spray other on, wait a minute, wipe down with clean paper towels (doesn’t matter which is sprayed on - first).
That combo will KILL...E-Coli, Salmonella, Aids & host of almost all other nasty stuff, including mold spores.
Just prior to using any tray, or container -- alc swab with 70% alc & allow to evap. 70% alc is MORE EFFECTIVE, as evap time is longer than higher % alc. SANITIZING STERILIZER

*Sanitize means to reduce the number of contaminants to a safe or relatively safe level as may be judged by public health requirements.
Disinfect means elimination of all recognized pathogenic microorganism but not necessarily all microbial forms.
Sterilize means the destruction of all microbial life by use of chemical or physical procedures.  DISINFECTANTS

*White vinegar in one spray bottle. 3% peroxide in another spray bottle. Spray one on, give it a moment, spray the other on, give it a few moments.... then wipe down with clean cloth. Cheap & effective to disinfect anything. DISINFECTANT CHEAP

*ALSO Buying in bulk bottles, then filling a spray mist bottle, is a LOT cheaper than buying Lysol in spray cans. Agar is FRUGAL. SANITIZING STERILIZER

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Psuper said:

Regarding the rye berries, I just recommend practicing RR's organic rye-berry tek (requires gypsum).  You may need a slightly shorter or longer boiling time (I think I do less than 10 minutes because my stove takes forever to get the water up to a boil).  Also, when it comes to draining/drying the grains after the boil, it is extremely helpful to have multiple colanders to drain/shake your grains in.  I shake the colander every few minutes, multiple times, to get the rye "dry to the touch" as it says in RR's writeup on it.  Don't use one huge colander, or two colanders filled to the brim, use multiple colanders filled with room to shake, or a screen to let your grain steam/dry.

As said, synthetic filter discs are the best route, reusable, but you don't inject your needle through them to inoculate jars, you open the lid for a few quick seconds for g2g, agar wedge, MS inoculant.  My lids have four holes drilled around the edge.  The drill bits used are 1/4 and/or 7/64 general purpose drill bits. There is probably a better purpose drill bit for metal lids, but that's what iam using.  A smoothly drilled hole will rust much slower than one that is punched through the lid.  This same lid would be fine with filter discs as well.

I place a single layer of sleeve tyvek on top of the drilled lid.  If Iam going to do a multispore project than after the jar is filled and the filter put on, I shine a flash-light in the side of the jar so the holes on top glow and I can mark one hole with a marker.  After I inoculate through that spot one piece of micropore tape serves as a patch. ~P~

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BrandNewbie said:

Here is a link (from RR), to the awesome filters that RR recommends.

http://www.vgdusa.com/Whatman-Filters.asp

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