Question about plastic vs glass weights for brine ferments

I kept getting kahm yeast on my hot sauce ferments until I switched to those glass fermentation weights instead of the cheap plastic ones from amazon. The plastic ones had tiny grooves that trapped gunk even after boiling, anyone else notice this?

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rivera.jesse3d ago

Wait, you boiled plastic weights and they still had crud?

rayy833d ago

Boiling plastic weights for 30 minutes didn't even soften the gunk, let alone loosen it. I really question if the heat method even works for this, @rivera.jesse, because all I got was a cloudy mess and still had to scrub everything off anyway. Maybe the real trick is just not letting that crud build up in the first place.