Thanks Jim, For many, many years I have faithfully boiled bottles of all sorts for preserving. Such simple logic leaves me knowing once again how dumb I am at times :-) Tony Flynn Frosty at the beach Bay of Plenty New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- > > If your bottling temp is good, the boiling the clean bottles is a bit of > overkill most times. Reasoning it out- the 195 F you're taking the sauce up > to to kill the bacteria will also kill any that might have strayed into the > bottles. > > -Jim C > http://www.StepUpForCharity.org > Mild to Wild(R) > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 3534 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len