Hello Mark and all,
I don't understand the water temperature unless you are washing jars. If
washing jars you need to find a used(new)commercial dishwasher.

When you finnish washing things down  but before you extract or bottle.
Wash everything down with a water and bleach solution.  Kills a hell of
a lot more germs than hot water.  Honey is hard to contaminate but it
only takes a few minutes to wash everything down with a bleach & water
solution.  Most sideline beekeepers use new jars or at least tell the
health department they do to keep from having water temperature
problems.  I can only talk about Missouri laws so maybe a Texas
beekeeper will post.  I do know that its useless to argue with health
inspectors.  Trying to comply is the best way.  Checking out all the
rules in advance prevents many headaches.  A friend was shut down
because he added a stove to his honey house.  He had to add a firewall
between the honey house and the main building.
 In Kansas you need to buy a permit and be inspected before selling in
the stores. One of the Kansas beekeepers  stores called and said the
health inspector pulled all his honey pending inspection.  He had sold
honey for years but never in the stores.

If you are selling *your honey* from *your house* different rules apply
in most states.
Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
Mark Coldiron wrote:
 I'm in the process of building a honey house with the usual equipment;
 extractor, uncapper, various tanks, and a bottler.  My question is...,
how
 do you clean the equipment, tanks, etc... and keep the Health Dept.
happy.
 The one around here (west Texas) wants everything cleaned with 171
degree
 hot water, which can't be reached with a normal hot water heater.  Are
 there other ways other than extremely hot water?