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maddchef
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Straw steam sterilization
#21759909 - 06/04/15 12:19 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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For an experiment I will be running in the next few days is anyone able to give me a semi accurate/starting point timetable of straw sterilization?
Say if one were to loosely fill a qt jar and PC it?
Only I am looking for a guestimate of how long you would steam sterilize said jar for? X minutes @ 212f
Hopefully I'm not looking at 8 hrs like grain. I wouldn't think so especially because I said LOOSE.
Thanks
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: maddchef]
#21759919 - 06/04/15 12:25 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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You don't want to sterilize straw, you want to pasteurize it in 140-160 degree water for 1 hour, to an hour and a half.
It is also said it helps straw to retain water by soaking it in an anti bacterial soap before pasteurization.
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Quote:
Imperfect Iam said: You don't want to sterilize straw, you want to pasteurize it in 140-160 degree water for 1 hour, to an hour and a half.
It is also said it helps straw to retain water by soaking it in an anti bacterial soap before pasteurization.
Just get like a 5 gallon bucket with a lid and put your straw + boiling water in and close the lid, wait about 2 hours and you should be good.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: Charleskun]
#21760566 - 06/04/15 07:31 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I understand well proper straw prep and that's not the info I'm after.
I'm asking for my own reasons if you were going to steam sterilize a quart of loose straw how long you would run it for?
I own several PCs, modified trashcan for pasteurization, hood, among other things so I'm not trying to take noob shortcuts.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: maddchef]
#21760573 - 06/04/15 07:35 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you really want to sterilize it for curiosity's sake, I say err on the side of caution. Go for a 2hr or more run in the PC, although I would guess that the usual 90min run should be ok.
If this is all just an experiment, why not set up a couple different runs for different time periods and see which ones perform optimally?
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: Myconin]
#21760735 - 06/04/15 08:47 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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It won't be pc'd it will be steam sterilized.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: maddchef]
#21760741 - 06/04/15 08:49 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Pc is steam sterilization. You can't go past 100° with water. It's pressurized steam. You need to specify and say steam sterilization at 1 psi.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: Mad Season]
#21761094 - 06/04/15 10:35 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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How hot exactly is steam not under pressure? When we tell ppl how to do the pf tek we say steam sterilize when talking about a pot. We say PC when we mean under pressure
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: maddchef]
#21761118 - 06/04/15 10:47 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've never taken the time to measure the temperature of steam. I don't know what more to tell you, except that most of us who are up to date refer to steam sterilization as pcing. I call pf tek just boiling jars. It's not really even sterilization, to boil and sterilize you have to do it for 8 hours.
To be specific, if it's not under pressure, it's just steam with no pressure or steam at 1 psi.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: Mad Season]
#21761125 - 06/04/15 10:49 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Steam can only get to 212f I believe under no pressure.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: maddchef]
#21761153 - 06/04/15 10:57 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Many people have tried sterilized straw, all have failed.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: 36fuckin5]
#21761392 - 06/04/15 12:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Understood and agreed. I don't plan on sterilizing it and spawning to it like a tub or stuffing a log.
Sterilized and left in its vessel is: jar, bag, tube, etc. It should behave like any other sterile media and be decently resistant once colonized and "birthed" no?
What I have in mind I plan on colonizing it in the container used to sterilize it. Bag for instance, sterilize a straw bag, open in front of a hood and pour in spawn, reseal.
Would this not work in theory?
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: maddchef]
#21761405 - 06/04/15 12:09 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I suppose that'd work, but it'd be easier to just dump some hot water over it and throw in some lime. Plus you could do big-ass logs or a basket that way.
You may have problems once you introduce FAE though. It'd definitely be a 1-and-done thing.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: Mad Season]
#21761493 - 06/04/15 12:33 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mad Season said: Pc is steam sterilization. You can't go past 100° with water. It's pressurized steam. You need to specify and say steam sterilization at 1 psi.
Increasing pressure raises the BP of water, so you can go past 100C. But beyond that, yes, the steam is pressurized as well.
Steam sterilization is not 1 psi. It is 0 psi gage pressure or 1 atm absolute pressure (101 kPa or 14.7 psi).
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: GreenRabbit]
#21761518 - 06/04/15 12:42 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Truth. It's also why you can cool an engine with no boiling beyond 100°. However I believe it's like 1 psi ups it by 2 or 3°, and we're relying on the high heat from the steam beyond the 130-140° water to sterilize, thus it's technically steam sterilization. It confused us because that's what we call pcing. It's a lot easier to say steam sterilization at atmospheric pressure. It wouldn't confuse everyone.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: Mad Season]
#21761539 - 06/04/15 12:47 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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OK so now that all that has been cleared up. If you were to STEAM not PC a quart or bag of loose straw how long would it take to achieve sterilization? 60,90,120, etc.
Best guesses anyone?
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: maddchef]
#21761547 - 06/04/15 12:49 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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120 or more.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: Mad Season]
#21761724 - 06/04/15 01:30 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Really? I was thinking shorter. We PC solid grains for 90 @ 250ish so I figured with straw being hollow and loose that 212f @ 90mins might cut it.
I dunno what kind of bacteria straw harbors though, I only ever see it succumb to mold.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: maddchef]
#21761740 - 06/04/15 01:35 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'd do it for at least 2 hours. Straw is dirty stuff.
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Re: Straw steam sterilization [Re: 36fuckin5]
#21761743 - 06/04/15 01:37 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Would a soak in bleach or lime adjusted water help to kill anything off before sterilization or does that only serve to make it inhabitable for spore germination?
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