Originally Posted by 62vette
Preserving tips for the uninitiated:
If your missus is making marmalade and runs out of jars, when you are microwaving some extras to sterilise them don't let the jars touch, 'cause you'll get red hot glass and the jars will adhere to each other.
Preserving tip for the uninitiated #2 - The oven works much better for sterilising jars, as long as you can keep the temp at arount 110-120C, leave 'em in for 30mins or so (making sure they aren't touching), turn off oven, allow jars to cool INSIDE oven before removing and filling. Oh yes, and it helps if the jars are inverted while being sterilised.
What sort of marmalade BTW? We do a very nice cumquat marmalade, but unfortunately our trees have decided to stop producing for some reason.
