How To Sanitize Glass Jars

Place the jars and bottles in the microwave and heat on full power for 60 seconds.

How to sanitize glass jars. Points to remember. Make sure the dishwasher is empty and clean. Do not sterilise the jar lids this way.

Clean the jars as normal rinse but leave the jars a little wet. Pop the tray of clean wet jars and lids in to a preheated oven at 160-180ºC for about 15 mins. Especially metal lids as metal cannot be heated in the microwave as it will spark and catch alight.

To finish off drain the water and dry. We recommend not using old jam jar lids if they are damaged or rusty they should be thrown away as they may not make a good seal. The following are three basic way steps.

Sterilising jars for jam making in this way is straightforward with the following steps. Get a large pot with high sides and line it with a clean cotton cloth. You can also place the jars into a large pan of boiling water for 10 minutes.

Bring the water to a boil and allow the jars to boil for fifteen minutes. Place the baking sheet in the middle of the oven close the oven door and bake aka. Now insert the glass jars with the opening facing up and place the cotton cloth between the jars to prevent them from bumping together.

Place on an oven rack with equal spacing heat them to 120 for 15 minutes. Place the glass jars in the dishwasher on a hot cycle. Heat oven to 140C120C fangas 1.