Good to know, thanks! I'll try to get a bit more airflow where it's set up.
pwacata
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I'd never heard of passivation before - thanks, will definitely do that before my first attempt.
Cool - I avoid acids for cleaning, mostly just use iodophor and steam
I do brew mead sometimes - I'll probably be switching between mead, beer, and wine over time. Do you think those flavors will start carrying over between batches? I've had pretty good luck so far with plastic, and I'm hoping stainless is fine as well since it's a harder material.
What do you normally do for secondary with mead? I could get a glass carboy, but I hear those are prone to shatter when moved...
I only use iodophor and sometimes hot steam, so I think I should be ok. Good to know some chemicals will etch it though
Good point - I'll stick to a soft sponge or plastic scraper to keep the nice finish. Thanks!
Woah - I didn't know those existed, and now I want one!
I might upgrade the lid after a couple batches if I get frustrated with cleaning
I'm on my eighth or ninth batch of mead - like other folks I started with single gallons and then got hooked on brewing.
Lately I've gone in bulk on bottles so I can brew a batch each of mead, beer, wine etc. so I don't have to sit through 5gal of a single flavor before trying something new :D
Rad. Thanks for the correction :)
Strong agree - but IMO this sounds like a request for the Lemmy devs, not for Beehaw.
Maybe try opening an enhancement request at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues ? That's probably more likely to be acted on vs posting here.
Honestly I've posted more to Lemmy in the last couple days than I have on Reddit in the last 8 years - it's easier because Lemmy feels like a smaller place... Like announcing yourself to a small room of people vs getting on a soapbox on a crowded main street.
Also omitted - the amount of speculative buying for planned capacity that never actually happens. I worked for one of the big tech companies for several years, and more specialized hardware especially (ML accelerators) were spun up with the notion of "we don't know who will need these, but we don't want to not have them if they're needed". Cue massive amounts of expensive hardware sitting plugged in and idle for months as dev teams scramble to adopt their stuff to new hardware that has just enough difference in behavior and requirements as to make it hard to migrate over.
Also also, there's a bunch of "when in doubt, throw it out" - automated systems detecting hardware failure that automatically decommission it after a couple strikes. False positive signals were common, so a lot gets thrown out despite being perfectly fine.