Here is the equipment you will need for racking: 1  Your jug of hard cider. 2  A second, clean sterile and empty glass jug (this is your âsecondaryâ jug) or clean sterile food grade plastic pail. 3  4-6 feet of food grade tubing.  Optional: A lock for the end of the tubing so that you can stop the flow without loosing suction.
Mineral oil is a mixture of complex hydrocarbons, mainly cyclic paraffins and alkanes (ideally 15 to 40 percent carbons). Mineral oil is chemically the same as petroleum jelly or white mineral oil, except it is liquid petroleum which makes it an ideal choice for several applications.
While, Mineral oil is a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum, which is used as a vehicle in pharmaceutical preparations. The castor oil is considered to be the same as that of mineral oil, but primarily it is not so, castor oil is totally different from that of mineral oil.n the market, Vaseline is the most familiar form of mineral oil. It is actually a trademark of a particular brand, but people use it generically. Hence, that particular grade is known as petroleum jelly and petrolatum.