Also..."BAKING" gear....is pretty much useless.
Have you ever heard of a compounding pharmacy using an oven to sterilize their vials?
No because they dont. So why would anyone else?
Sterilization of gear is achieved by using a STERILE filter.
If you use a sterile filter there is no reason to bake your gear. The people who do this are parroting bad advice that is decades old. It can degrade or melt stoppers as well which will in fact compromise the sterility of your gear not improve it.
Warm the gear, filter into a sterile vial. your done....there is no oven in the mix ever.
Ever.
The proper time and temperature for Dry-Heat sterilization is 160°C (320°F) for 2 hours or 170°C (340°F) for 1 hour. Instruments should be dry before sterilization since water will interfere with the process. Dry-heat destroys microorganisms by causing coagulation of proteins.
Couldn't agree more. Baking gear never made sense to me and I've never done it. People swear by it though. Just seems like old beliefs that some people had. Seems like there are a lot of misconceptions like that when it comes to brewing based on "Bro-science" and not actual science.
Dry heat sterilization kills microorganisms by oxidizing proteins, not by coagulation. Moist heat (Autoclaves) kill bacteria and endospores by denaturing or coagulation. To do this they must penetrate. I believe the standard is 121C and 15psi.

I wonder if there are any cheap UV hoods that are available. That would be awesome to set beakers and bottles underneath a UV light while they cool from the oven just to be 100% sure.