Jblyth
Homemade Wine Enthusiast
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K-Meta + Stainless steel = Rust!
For all of those chemistry majors out there, i'd like to find out what happened recently while sanitizing some wine equipment. I was getting ready to press some grapes skins recently from my wine, and had prepped a k-meta sanitizing solution in a bucket filled with my stainless steel collander and other equipment. Long story short is that I got interrupted, and let it sit there much longer than anticipated (a few hours). When I got back and opened the bucket, my collander had started to severely rust on top! Oddly, the items which were nearer to the solution at the bottom of the bucket were fine, but the collander had a thick, mucus-like rust on top that required quite a bit of cleaning.
What happened?
For all of those chemistry majors out there, i'd like to find out what happened recently while sanitizing some wine equipment. I was getting ready to press some grapes skins recently from my wine, and had prepped a k-meta sanitizing solution in a bucket filled with my stainless steel collander and other equipment. Long story short is that I got interrupted, and let it sit there much longer than anticipated (a few hours). When I got back and opened the bucket, my collander had started to severely rust on top! Oddly, the items which were nearer to the solution at the bottom of the bucket were fine, but the collander had a thick, mucus-like rust on top that required quite a bit of cleaning.
What happened?
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