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... while I enjoy listening to the agonal screams of creatively killed bacteria as much as the next fellow, I spend most of my life eating and drinking out of vessels that have been adequately cleansed with warm soapy water, and seem none the worse for wear. The extreme sterilization methods may pose more hazard to the user's health than do the microbes in the bottle.


I agree.

A simple soap and water wash and air frying covers 90% of the cleaning and disinfection needs in every day use. If there is contamination by blood or body fluids, or diseases going around disinfection with a 10% bleach solution after cleaning covers that.

Alternatives that are known to work, efficacy depends on the specifics of what is being cleaned and what it is contaminated with: laying stuff out in direct sunlight, boiling water, immersing objects in water double dosed with iodine water purification tablets, steaming, heating stuff in/near the campfire, alcohol wash, dehydration/aging.