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"Just got a new Brewhaus kettle after a two month wait. I open it and it looks great but I saw a gasket under the rim of the lid. I called and asked the lady that answered the phone what it was made of - her answer was silicone  Any one have any thoughts on this? Did you use the gasket or replace with cork or something else?"
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I've been using the stock gasket for over a year. I haven't noticed any problems. And I haven't noticed any signs of deterioration. But that's a good question ... I guess I never gave it much thought.
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It's one of the Holy Grail rules of the craft: no contact with anything but copper, stainless steel, and glass. I'm disappointed they would include something that could be poisoning what their customers are ingesting.
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I think the gasket is made with an alcohol tolerent or chemical tolerant materiel simmilar to what the opaque white hoses are made from. I have to believe that Rick is not knowingly going to poisen us. He has been doing this for a long time and I would think he knows what to use.
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BrrewHaus, Mile High, Hill Billy Stills & Still Dragon all use Silicone Gasket Material... Like the following... http://www.milehidistill...asket-for-milk-can-lids/
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Silicone is highly chemical tolerant and also heat tolerant, which is why we use it for the gaskets in our kettles.
Rick
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using mine for years-- no holy grail rules either
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Silicone should be fine, ally of people use it. If in doubt with anything you want to use with distilling, put it in some high prof distillate for a week or so, if it deteriorates it's no good.
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"The silicone gaskets do no harm and are long lasting. Besides the one that comes on the boiler I have made many out of bakeing sheets for other stills that I have made. They are usually for temps up to 450 degrees and are food grade. If you have ever eaten store bought cookies then you have eaten something that has been cooked on silicone. These pics are of silicone bakeing sheet gasket material that have been soaking in a combination of fores, heads, hearts, and tails for more than six months to test it's ability to hold up and not degrade. So far it's looking good. With that said, there is quite a bit of debate about the use of silicone gaskets and other silicone materials used around consumables of all types. The amount of silicone used commercially in the food industries is very extensive. I use it others won't. To each his/her own. [ATTACH=CONFIG]809[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]810[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]811[/ATTACH]" Bushy attached the following image(s):  001.JPG (63kb) downloaded 0 time(s). 002.JPG (72kb) downloaded 0 time(s). 003.JPG (50kb) downloaded 0 time(s).You cannot view/download attachments. Try to login or register.
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dang so my tire tube home made gasket is gonna poison me? it sure felt like it after a few drinks this weekend. haha
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Maybe I spent too much time on homedistiller.org before discovering this place. Silicone is definite no-no over there.
So, ok, maybe I wont yank the gasket out just yet.
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