How To Sterilize Jars

Nia Rouseberg Author: Nia Rouseberg Time for reading: ~4 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
How To Sterilize Jars

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We have described 5 ways to sterilize canning jars. Simple step-by-step instructions with photos and videos will teach even a beginner.

 

How to sterilize empty jars at home

In order for homemade preparations and salads to be perfectly preserved and delight us with their taste in winter, you need to take care of the container in which we will roll up the preparations. Banks must be perfectly clean, and this can only be achieved by sterilization.

Before sterilizing the jars, carefully inspect them for cracks, chips. Banks with such defects are unsuitable for seaming. You can sterilize jars in various ways: in a double boiler, in water (in a saucepan), in a microwave oven, in an oven (electric or gas - there is no difference), as well as without boiling and without an oven.

Most prefer to sterilize empty jars in the oven, because this way you can process a large number of containers at once. The easiest way to sterilize jars is to steam them with hot steam. This can be done in a double boiler, on the spout of a kettle, or over a pot of water on a wire rack. Sterilized jars should be kept upside down until you fill them with canning.

Recipes with water

Recipes with soda

Recipes with the ingredient ethyl alcohol 95%

Option 1
in the oven
Option 2
in a double boiler
Option 3
in a pot of water
Option 4
in the microwave
Option 5
alcohol
Ingredients:
  • Water
  • Soda
We will need:
  • Bowl
  • baking sheet
  • kitchen sponge
  • jar with lid

How to sterilize jars in the oven step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

For sterilization, we need a bowl, water, soda, a sponge, jars with lids, an oven tray.

Step 2

 

Wash glass jars in warm water with soda, rinse with water. For 3 liters of water we take 3 tablespoons of baking soda.

Step 3

 

Place wet, empty jars upside down on a baking sheet. Immediately lay out the washed lids. Place the jars in an oven preheated to 150°C. It is necessary to keep jars in the oven for so long: half-liter - 10 minutes, liter - 15 minutes, three-liter - 25 minutes.

Step 4

 

Sterilized jars are ready for canning.

Ingredients:
  • Water
  • Soda
We will need:
  • jar with lid
  • kitchen sponge
  • Bowl
  • Kitchen towel
  • Double boiler

How to sterilize jars in a double boiler step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

For work, we need a bowl, a double boiler, a kitchen sponge, a kitchen towel, soda, jars.

Step 2

 

Wash the jar well with a sponge in water with the addition of soda. Rinse. Here for 1 liter of water we take 3 teaspoons of soda.

Step 3

 

Place the jars upside down on the steamer rack.

Step 4

 

Pour water into the double boiler and steam the jars for a couple for 5-10 minutes, depending on the volume of the jar. The lids can also be sterilized along with the jars.

Step 5

 

Place the sterilized jars on a kitchen towel, neck down. Banks are ready for conservation.

Ingredients:
  • Water
  • Soda
We will need:
  • Pot
  • Bowl
  • kitchen sponge
  • jar with lid

How to sterilize jars in a pot of water step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

For sterilization, you will need a bowl of water, soda, a kitchen sponge, a saucepan, jars with lids.

Step 2

 

Wash the jars well in water with soda (3 tablespoons of soda for 3 liters of water), rinse with clean water.

Step 3

 

Put the jars with lids in a pot of water so that the water completely covers the jars.

Step 4

 

Cover the pot with a lid. Bring water to a boil and boil over low heat for so long: 0.5 liter cans - 10 minutes, 1 liter - 15 minutes, 2 liters - 20 minutes.

Step 5

 

Sterile jars are ready to be sealed.

Ingredients:
  • Water
  • Soda
We will need:
  • Bowl
  • kitchen sponge
  • Microwave
  • jar with lid

How to sterilize jars in the microwave step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

For work, we need a bowl, water, jars, a kitchen sponge, soda, a microwave.

Step 2

 

Wash the jars well in water (3 liters) with soda (3 tablespoons), rinse with clean water.

Step 3

 

Pour water into each jar to a height of 2 cm.

Step 4

 

Put the jars in the microwave.

Step 5

 

Turn on the microwave at maximum power and set the time: for half-liter jars - 5 minutes, for liter jars - 7 minutes. During the operation of the microwave, the water in the jars will boil and the steam will sterilize the jars.

Step 6

 

Banks are ready for preparations. And the covers with this method of sterilization must be sterilized in a different way (for example, boil for 5 minutes in a saucepan with water).

Ingredients:
  • Ethyl alcohol 95%
We will need:
  • jar with lid

How to sterilize jars with alcohol step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

To sterilize jars without an oven and boiling, we need clean, washed jars with lids and alcohol.

Step 2

 

Pour 100 ml of alcohol into the jar, close the lid and shake the jar 5-6 times so that the alcohol gets on all the walls and the lid of the jar.

Step 3

 

Pour the alcohol into the next jar, and cover the treated with alcohol with a lid and leave it in this state until the time comes to roll the products into it.

Step 4

 

Sterile jars and ready for winter storage.

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