Sanitizing oak beans

[JordanPond]

Do you sanitize your oak beans before you add them to you wine? If so, what process do you use? Being porous, would they bring too much SO2 into the wine?

 

[Randoneur]

I put them in a bowl, then set the bowl in a bucket that has some sulfide in it. Put lid on bucket and let the vapors do the work, oak beans stay dry in the bowl.

 

[JordanPond]

Ok, same concept as corkador for your corks.