Use bottles for preserving
The most important thing when canning is to pay close attention to hygiene, because even newly purchased canning bottles should be perfectly prepared for filling. Here you find out how this works.
If you have your own garden with apple or pear trees, you often don't know what to do with all of this fruit. A juicer, which a neighbor might also own, is of course ideal for making delicious natural fruit juice that provides vitamins throughout the winter. But which bottles are best for this and how do you prepare the bottles Boiling down before? Read on to find out what to look out for.
This is the perfect way to prepare bottles for canning
- Even if you are using new, purchased bottles for canning, it is a good idea to take them out To perfectly prepare hygiene reasons, so that no bacteria or dirt prevent the drinking pleasure can reduce.
- It is certainly best to collect suitable bottles and glasses over the year, which can then be used for preserving after the harvest and processing time.
- If necessary, you could also buy empty bottles from the drinks dealer, which are still cheaper than "real" new canning bottles.
- You should wash them as hot as possible several times before use, the dishwasher is best for this.
- The lids, which sometimes have a taste of their own from the previous contents of the bottles, should be boiled in a small saucepan before boiling down.
- Make sure that you only use bottles for boiling whose threads and lids are absolutely undamaged, that is, for example, are rust-free and seal tightly.
- The bottles can also be sterilized in the oven, which is set to 80 degrees Celsius layer and leave in there for half an hour before using them for filling after boiling down use.
- Place the still hot bottles around the pot in which you are boiling. This keeps the bottles warm or hot enough to prevent them from cracking when pouring the hot contents.
- Many people who have been boiling for many years recommend placing the bottles upside down in a bucket after they have been filled and closed in order to achieve the greatest possible tightness.
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Fill the bottles as hot as possible, but please be careful to observe all safety precautions to avoid scalding. Please do not let anyone distract you, even children should not be in the kitchen when boiling and filling the bottles with the hot contents.
