bottling Noob bottler here tonight

[nullcrc]

Salutations all,

Pardon, busy night with after hours work (I'm in IT and thought sure, tonight would be a great time to try bottling hot sauce in Woozy bottles, while on-call, and during a scheduled site outage).

I whipped up a recipe today that, I think, I got from this site, so kudos to whomever I got it from. Regardless, not sure I did the bottling right.

The Blueberry Sriracha Hot Sauce (that I tweaked in heat and pH), I made ended up with a pH of 3.27 before bottling in 5oz Woozy bottles. The recipe stated, to pastuerize, cook bottles @160F for 10m, then increase to 180F for 10m, then flip bottles for 3 minutes.

I flipped for 3 minutes and immediately took pot off burner while bottles remained. I admit, I did not think this through on step three of the inversion. Yes, I will be doing googlefu on this, but is there an easier way to keep them inverted? I can always redo the processing (with the pH I am thinking), so just looking for any tips or pointers in the right direction.

 

[salsalady]

Welcome to THP!

There are detailed instruction in the Making Hot Sauce 101 thread.


Put the heated sauce into room temp bottles (previously cleaned), cap and invert into the cardboard boxes the bottles came in. Leave inverted for (5 minutes?) Then squeeze the box diagonal and flip the whole box over to re-vert the bottles out onto the work table.

It is not suggested to invert filled bottles into water. Empty Bottles can be cleaned with sanitizing solutions, boiling water, oven or bleach solutions. Fill with the HEATED (190-200F) sauce into room temp dry bottles. Invert into the cardboard shipping boxes, then re-vert.

 

[salsalady]

tutorial - Making Hot Sauce 101

Making and Bottling Hot Sauce 101 for Beginners This post is for people wishing to make and bottle sauces for personal use or to share with friends and family. Persons wishing to sell their sauces should contact their local health authority and follow the guidelines of their Authority Having...

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[nullcrc]

Welcome to THP!

There are detailed instruction in the Making Hot Sauce 101 thread.


Put the heated sauce into room temp bottles (previously cleaned), cap and invert into the cardboard boxes the bottles came in. Leave inverted for (5 minutes?) Then squeeze the box diagonal and flip the whole box over to re-vert the bottles out onto the work table.

It is not suggested to invert filled bottles into water. Empty Bottles can be cleaned with sanitizing solutions, boiling water, oven or bleach solutions. Fill with the HEATED (190-200F) sauce into room temp dry bottles. Invert into the cardboard shipping boxes, then re-vert.

Thank you!