[Magdalen] Kimchi pickle review.

[Jay Weigel]

Short answer: No. Just wash everything in hot soapy water, rinse and dry.
Or wash in the dishwasher, if you have one (I do, and i did.)

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:15 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>Along similar lines, a question from colleagues at our office who are
> following this conversation with interest on the sidelines...
>
> Do you have to sterilise the pickling jars?
>
> Ours have plastic lids that can't be heated (though the jar is glass and
> can take heat). So if you do have to sterilise can you use
> Milton/Sterilising fluid?<<<
>
> Charles and Molly hit on this yesterday pretty well.  Lacto-fermentation
> is such that the good bacteria overpower the bad bacteria, making -- at
> least for such projects as my pickles -- no need for sterilization.  I, in
> fact, simply bought some quart jars of pickled veggies, transferred the
> contents to another container, rinsed the jars out with hot water, and let
> them drain upside-down in the dish rack before adding the cucumbers and
> screwing on the lids.
>