Does Enzyme Cleaner Get Killed Off With Boiling Water

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Chefwong

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My Sink Drains see anywhere on average of 1 gallon of boiling water at least every day or every other day (depends what's getting blanched).

Currently in the middle of a enzyme treatment. It's -touted- that the enzymes actually grow more with each treatment inside the piping system.

Bearing me pouring boiling water down my kitchen sink (in which this is the drain pipe I am treating ), am I literally killing the enzymes that I am trying to -work into the pipe- ? I believe I already know the answer but I'll let the pro's chime in
 

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I've concluded, and correct me if I'm mistaken, that boiling water may/will kill off the enzymes I am pouring in that it will make contact. Granted this is tailpipe, sink trap - but once it goes past that, whether it be a horizontal or vertical transition, the water is only making contact on the -water level-, so figure 1/3 of the ID of the pipe. So while some enzyme is wasted in this application, due to hot water usage from the stove, with daily applications over the course of 7-10 days, the enzymes attract to the organic matter in the pipe and will mitigate/leeach to the upper surfaces of the pipe where water is not making contact anyhow. So doing a enzyme treatment is still beneficial, albeit, I am wasting some due to the -unintended killoff-
 
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