Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: apes1978 on July 02, 2007, 12:58
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Hi, i have been saving my jars in anticipation of making lots of strawberry jam and chutneys.
The problem is that even though ive washed the jars, i can still smell the remains of what was previously in them. Is it ok to steralise the jars in milton fluid or just throw them and start again?
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Store the empties with the lids off.
If the smell is strong, best to separate sweet / savoury, i.e. ex-jam jars for jam, pickle/chutney/sauce jars for chutneys
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Once you've washed them in hot soapy water and rinsed out with boiling, and dried in the oven just before you fill them (well, that's what I do!), there's very little smell left.
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Thanks everyone, i wont throw them away just yet then!
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I could still smell pickles a bit in some of mine, even after I'vd dried them, so I put them in a bowl of water with a little bicaronate of soda, then re-rinsed and dried them. No smell!!!!
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Definatly bicarb,as grannieannie says.
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thanks, how much bicarb should i put in?
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Hi Apes, I just chucked some in, but perhaps a tablespoon in a washing up bowl? Swish it around and just leave your jars to soak for a few minutes. Take one out and smell it, if smell still there, maybe a little more bicarb, but that should be enough.