I'm wondering if anyone else has tarnish on their brew spoon. Any worries to get it off? How do you get it off?
Is it rust or is it caramelized wort from use? If it's burnt caramelized wort, I've removed with a long soak in hot soapy water or pbw. I still have minor small stains on my spoon and it hasn't given me any problems.
Looks like someone is using it to dig in the garden. That's odd, I've never seen something like that.
The spoon is left out in the garage for the 90+F humid summer days and the -10F winter nights. I use the spoon for every brew session and I usually just leave it in the boil. I rinse it off at the end of the day with everything else.
I'm not getting to negative anything, but mine stays in the garage with the rest of the junk for brewing, and it all gets to over 100 in the summer, so it'll bake shit on. Same, or similar SS spoon. Stays in the boil, pretty much gets rinsed off or dropped in the bucket of starsan. Tried soaking it in PWB, or oxy?
mine is similar or identical. gets washed along with everything else after use, then air dried like everything else. 2+ years and no tarnation. that is stainless, right? if so it should only be baked on crud, which can be removed (and should be).
I haven't tried cleaning it yet. I think this is like when you find out that you're the only one in grade school that drops his pants all the way down to go pee. Everyone else laughs. I'll try some Oxy when I get home and get the crud off hopefully. I'm assuming it's SS.
It's okay man, we all eat our boogers though. Hit it with a green scotch brite pad after a hot soak in some PBW and I bet it comes out for the better.
I've got an unusually wide 15 gal kettle. I find the colder side of the kettle and leave it over there. For some reason it doesn't get boiling hot. Maybe the tarnish is preventing conduction.
