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Can campden tablets be used also to clean wine equipment and carboys?
 
They could but you would need an awful lot of them to make a gallon of sanitizer. I believe that the dosage for tablets used to sulfite wine is 1 tablet per gallon or five tablets in a 5 gallon carboy. For K-meta powder, the dosage for 5 gallons is 1/4 teaspoon, so 1/4 teaspoon of powder is roughly equivalent to 5 tablets. If you figure 3 tablespoons per gallon of water for a sanitizer, that is 12 quarter teaspoons or about 60 tablets.
 
I agree with Rocky. I also would not recommend making the sanitizing solution any weaker than the 3 tblsp per gallon of water.
 

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