You're right. You can sterilize and reuse the bottles easily. T --- Jonathan Smillie <jonathan.smillie@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > ===== Tina Brooks VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces www.peppermaster.com Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. www.pepperfire.ca Phone: (514) 393-3430 26 St. Jean Baptiste, East Rigaud, Quebec, Canada J0P 1P0 Network with me on www.gourmetbusinessforum.com -- The premier online business community for food professionals Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller