Buck21
Member
So I'm getting ready to use some of my bottles for the second time. When I first got my bottles I soaked overnight in oxyclean, scrubbed with bottle brush, rinsed, and then sanitized before filling. After I pour and empty a bottle I have been very good about rinsing them out with water within 5 minutes. When they dry out I either put them in a 24 pack box with lid or in 6 pack carriers and covered in plastic wrap. Now that I am getting ready to fill these bottles again my question is if I have done enough to keep them clean and can just sanitize before I bottle or do I need to actually clean them again in oxyclean? I feel pretty confident that they have remained clean during storage (nothing that I am able to see has gotten into them), but am still a little leery of skipping the cleaning step when you always hear about how important cleaning and sanitizing are. How do other people handle their cleaning when reusing bottles? Thanks in advance.