Bake or K Meta barrel staves?

[FTC Wines]

We have staves from a leaky barrel that only had wine in it for 3 weeks. Want to use them in our neutral barrels for extra oak. They have been dry for 6 months now. Thinking of baking them in oven to sterilize or should we do a K Meta soak or in a bucket with fumes. If you baked yours how long? And at what temperature? Thanks, Roy

 

[mainshipfred]

If you bake them you will get the toast on all sides so that would be my recommendation. I found this but never (yet) tried it. If you do try it please let me know how it turned out.

http://chezraywinery.blogspot.com/2008/02/updated-technique-toasting-oak-staves.html

 

[FTC Wines]

Ok, Fred thanks. My gut says bake them too. If I don’t have a lot of input the other way I’ll bake them. I’ve sanded them And drilled them so I can attach a fishing line to pull them out easily. Think they will add a lot of oak and save me a lot of Money on spirals !