Is it necessary to sterilize containers before making Kombucha Tea?
It is a good idea to sterilize your containers before using, but practically speaking this isn’t easy to do if you are using plastics, and all glass isn’t heat resistant and will crack if water that is too hot is used on them. If your containers are washed in hot soapy water and rinsed very well with hot water, this should be sufficient. Some people add a little bleach to this water, ( 1 tablespoon per gallon of water) but be very careful if you do this because bleach will ruin some plastics and the smell of the bleach be absorbed into the plastic container. Also, if you don’t get it all off, it will be very harmful to your Kombucha colony. After washing and rinsing, swishing an ounce or so of distilled white vinegar around in the container will help sanitize them too.
