How To Wash Glass Jars

A mason jar addict.

How to wash glass jars. When your glass jars order arrives always clean and sterilize them using a hot water bath. The salt should absorb residual odors. Write on the jar as if tracing the paper lettering through the glass.

Instead leave them to stand upside down on a roasting tray while theyre still wet. No seriously I love mason jars so much that it pains me to give anyone something that I canned. Fill up a sink with hot water.

Shake vigorously until all the gunk on the bottom and sides has been scrubbed away. ClemenGold Lime And Ginger Marmalade. You can use washing soda to remove sticky labels from glass jars.

Clean the jars as normal rinse but leave the jars a little wet. Shake the glass marker or paint pen if the manufacturers instructions indicate to do so. Start with a wash in hot soapy water.

Turn off heat and let jars stand in hot water. If the interiors contain stuck-on food allow them to sit for half an hour. The jars may look clean and it may even come in a plastic shrink-wrap but sterilize them with boiling water anyway to ensure cleanliness.

Add ½ cup of baking soda to the water. Ladle the hot preserve into a heatproof jug to make it easier to transfer the mixture into. Pop the tray of clean wet jars and lids in to a preheated oven at 160-180ºC for about 15 mins.