On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:20:14PM -0400, Jim wrote: > Ummm.... it ain't a 'guess' as to the pH. We check, and recheck. [....] > With a pH of 3.1 My pH strips have never given me any reading other than wet or dry, and they certainly don't get into float values. One of these days, I'd like to get a pH meter (more for brewing than anything else), but it's not even remotely close to being a priority. So yes, I would like to take advantage of what I already have (I have everything but hot sauce bottles/caps that I KNOW are autoclavable) to keep everything safe. Is that (in itself) wrong? No, of course not. Now, if doing that is going to wipe out the flavor, as others have already suggested in this thread, then THAT makes it a very bad idea.... So we go back to my previous post, which was going to be my last in this thread. :-) Later, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | "> There it was, right in the title bar: spooky130u@gmail.com | > Microsoft Operations POS." < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | ICBM / Hurricane: | "Never before has a TLA been so appropriately 30.39735N 86.60439W | mis-parsed." (alt.sysadmin.recovery)