How much bleach or sanitizing tablet shold we use?

[Beavah]

Yah, wingnut, I used to have a place where basement flooding happened occasionally. My sympathies. Is that what yeh get for living in a place named Waterbury?

 

Beavah

[nolesrule]

In Florida we keep our pools outside.

 

As for the bleach, that's the key to invisibility. The more we consume, the less visible we become and eventually we will be able to sneak around unnoticed (my apologies, I just finished reading H.G. Welles' "The Invisible Man")

[boomerscout]

I believe the Fieldbook is incorrect as to the order of the steps. When I worked in a restaurant it was wash, rinse, sanitize. As Dean mentioned, the dishes & utensils should remain in the sanitizing solution for a couple minutes. You then airdry, at which time the chlorine will dissipate into the atmosphere leaving no "film" behind.

Too much Cl can be as bad as too little if ingested.

Older Philmont guides skip a sanitizing step. Instead, before the next meal, you place everything into boiling water for a bit even though you've washed & rinsed them at the previous meal.

I like paper plates; they can be composted. Disposable wooden flatware can be the nightly campfire.