[Hoxbar]

This is my first year at making honey. My wife insisted that we put our honey in these pretty one pound jars http://www.dadant.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=796. I wanted to bottle into quart mason jars. How do we sanitize these bottles? can we put in dishwasher like you would for canning vegetables?

 

[Fuzzy]

Yup... Just can't do the plastic lids.

 

[Hoxbar]

How would you sanitize plastic jars or bottles?

 

[NasalSponge]

Top rack of the dishwasher.

 

[Mike S]

I would run them thru the dishwasher and wash the lids in hot soapy water in the sink, rinse well.

 

[Hoxbar]

Thanks, My lids have a backing on them that will stick to the bottle/jar. Would I still want to wash the lids by hand or dishwasher or don't worry about washing?

 

[sqkcrk]

Are your jars dirty when you get them? And your lids? Don't your lids come in a bag inside a box? Unless I've been doing it wrong for 20 years, the jars and lids that I use I consider clean and not in need of washing. That's one reason that the jars come in boxes w/ the bottom of the jar facing the top of the box, so nothing falls into them.

I think you are wasting time and energy and being over cautious. That or I have been doing it wrong and so have all of the other honey packers I know.

 

[dbest]

I think you are wasting time and energy and being over cautious. That or I have been doing it wrong and so have all of the other honey packers I know.

Tour a honey packer sometime...you'll go home and wonder why you even worry about 90% of the things you do. Especially when you see them take barrels of chinese honey straight from the parking lot rusty and coverd in mud and put them in an oven.

 

[Hoxbar]

Yuck! Another great reason to buy local honey!