What, if any, are the considerations when selecting a reasonably priced decent quality #ultrasonic cleaning bath?
Use case would be to clean and degrease/deoil small tools, glasses, watches, etc. Maybe a second unit some day to experiment with e.g. wood-chip infused milk; that second unit would remain food-safe.
I didn't get much farther than "probably stainless steel, and correct volume" -- and select that from eBay?
@xuxxux@funkylab many, many moons ago I read about people dropping wood chips into full-fat milk to create apple milk. It's also apparently used for speed-aging Whisk[e]y and such with burnt wood chips.
@RichiH@xuxxux on a somewhat related note, you can buy smoke as liquid; seems to be the same stuff as when foodstuff declares "smoke" an ingredient. Makes sense to me, probably much better to burn/gas out wood in a highly controlled chamber with a controlled-temperature condenser and transfer the result to production than to put sausage over a wood fire and hope the amount of carcinogens stays low while the amount of aroma is well-controllable.
@RichiH For diverse uses, how about an immersible unit rather than a bath?
Or a large bath – large enough that you can insert a smaller bath inside it. This is how we used to clean things in the lab that required a non-polar solvent like alcohol or acetone. Instead of a separate bath, we'd put the container into the water bath, in the manner of a bain marie. It could do with a different name – a bain someone-else. Does anyone rattly come to mind?
@libroraptor interesting thought.. does that set-up dampen the waves in some way? I'd prefer to have a small unit (I think?) because I don't plan on using it often and don't want to throw out large quantities of cleaning agent regularly -- but that could be achieved with that setup.
For food stuff, I would still get a second unit. No handling process is as secure as simply not mixing use.
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