[CH] Reusing hot sauce bottles?

Jonathan Smillie (jonathan.smillie@gmail.com)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:44:26 -0500

I started making my own hot sauce (for private distribution only) this 
past fall, and now I've got several empty bottles (standard 5-oz hot 
sauce style) that used to contain it. Can I, if I clean and sterilize 
these bottles, use them again for another batch of sauce?

I'm assuming that the caps and reducers (being plastic) probably can't 
be effectively re-sterilized, but the bottles are glass, so a good few 
minutes' boiling after they've been hand-washed and run through the 
dishwasher to remove residue ought to do it - or am I wrong?