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Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation?
    #7990487 - 02/07/08 03:45 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Can you use a vegetable steamer to sterilise jars? I don't mean a pan which goes on a hotplate and has a suspended layer above it, but rather one of those standalone ones which generates steam in the bottom and then sends it up into a plastic tower which can put your vegetables in. Has anyone ever done this successfully?

Cheers for any info you guys can offer.


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Re: Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation? [Re: dl46]
    #7990499 - 02/07/08 04:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)



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Re: Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation? [Re: Crasher]
    #7990507 - 02/07/08 04:34 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

You might say UTFSE, but you could do with following your own advice, since you clearly haven't checked that these posts are relevant to my question. I did look at some of the other threads about this, but they all seem to be about people using a pan with boiling water in the bottom and a suspended vegetable steamer inside it.

I am asking a different question, about this sort of steamer:

http://www.johnlewis.com/jl_assets/product/230400469.jpg

It doesn't work in the same way, since it has a cold water reservoir in the bottom, and a small steam-creating element part way up.

So, to put the question again, can this be used to sterilise PF-Tek cakes and has anyone actually done this before?


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Re: Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation? [Re: dl46]
    #7990512 - 02/07/08 04:42 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

The answers I posted are still the same if your steam is produced by heated water, increasing the temp inside the chamber.


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Re: Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation? [Re: dl46]
    #7990514 - 02/07/08 04:43 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Hows that  feel :onfire:


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Re: Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation? [Re: implee]
    #7990516 - 02/07/08 04:49 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I am just concerned that it might not be getting the temperature up high enough (since these steamers are not sealed units - they have vents at the top to let steam out). I don't have a thermometer which goes up high enough to check, which is why I wanted to ask about it.


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Re: Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation? [Re: dl46]
    #7990920 - 02/07/08 09:42 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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I am just concerned that it might not be getting the temperature up high enough (since these steamers are not sealed units - they have vents at the top to let steam out). I don't have a thermometer which goes up high enough to check, which is why I wanted to ask about it.




Those vents do not sound good to me. Why not just use what has been proved to be true?


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Re: Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation? [Re: SFsorrow]
    #7992414 - 02/07/08 04:02 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Steam canners (non pressured) are not recommended for canning food, in fact boiling is what is recommended (or if the kind of preserve permits it, a pressure canner).

This is because heat penetration is really bad with steam compared to water.

As you want the heat to penetrate to the inside of the jars I would not recommend a steamer. If nothing else at all is available, then increase the sterilization time.


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Re: Vegetable Steamer for Sterilisation? [Re: Nibin]
    #7992563 - 02/07/08 04:37 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Can it run for two hours without shutting down? If so, use it.
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