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wow...I always thought over cooking was a big problem..

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For crying out loud, overcooking IS a problem. I think the original post by BladeLSD is kinda misleading. I dont have any reasons to say that things arent as said. What I do believe is that in his case there were many reasons that did NOT lead to overcooking. The temperature was low, at least lower than the temperatures most of us use when cooking the jars unter normal periods.

So, pls dont take an example from someone, to lead your efforts into wrong steps. Overcooking means cooking more than you should; if you do that, the jars have a problem, period. BlaseLSD probably didnt overcooked the jars. So i dont think its much of a deal, unless you want to have the stove under attention for 7 hrs. I prefer doing other things.  

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I use lids that don't have holes poked in them for sterilizing so they vacuum seal after they've cooled so losing water in the sterilizing process wouldn't be a problem

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In my experience, doing jars like this is a bad thing. You create a negaitive pressure inside the jars, like you said, a vacuum seal. Only problem is when you go to innoculate them, and crack the lid open, lots of air rushes in at a fairly high speed.  Contams 

I also had the problem with taping over the holes in the lids while they were still hot, again setting up a negative pressure in the jars. When I'd poke through the lids with the spore syringe, the entire thing would get sucked in to a single jar.

Only had to do that once to figure out not to do that again   

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10 day's ... sounds like it got alot of spore sollution in that jar. My friend used up last 2 cc's of Hawaiian in one jar and it innoculated in about 10 days.

How many jars did you do with one syringe?

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Uh... it colonized in 10 days, unless you squirted those 2cc's in very slowly ;-)

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Uh... it colonized in 10 days, unless you squirted those 2cc's in very slowly ;-)

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I know it colonized in 10 days.
The more spore sollution that is added to a jar the faster it's going to colonize. If he used 10 cc's for five jars. they're going to coloize faster than 10cc's divided between 10 jars. Perhaps I wasn't clear with my post.

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