Star San - other uses

[teadixon]

I'm making some Mince Meat for Xmas - my method says to put it in sterilised jars. Do you think a good wash and a good spray of Star San will do it? If it's good enough for beer, it's good enough for mince, no?

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi!
I'm not sure! StarSan is a sanitiser, but it doesn't sterilise.
A good way to sterilize glass containers, including beer bottles, is to put them on a baking tray in a cold oven, switch the oven on at 120°C, keep them at that temperature for about 20 minutes then switch off and leave the containers to cool totally.

 

[dad_of_jon]

I'm making some Mince Meat for Xmas - my method says to put it in sterilised jars. Do you think a good wash and a good spray of Star San will do it? If it's good enough for beer, it's good enough for mince, no?

id dishwasher the jars - rinse and oven them. starsan when used as instructed does not harm yeast. the jar lids don't go in the oven but are starsan'd.

so far only 1 bottle in about 1700 has given me a problem and even that may have been because of overpriming.

 

[teadixon]

Thanks - I boiled the jars in the end; didn't want to risk it!

 

[Irishwizard]

Thanks - I boiled the jars in the end; didn't want to risk it!

Just for the future...in the way distant past, we would put them in the oven as described above, and it worked fine for the womens institute

 

[Druncan]

Sprayed some old'ish (but still do-able) fresh ginger that was a touch mouldy with my starsan spray.

Next day it looked like new:whistle: (Ergo; not yeast based infection!!!)

 

[Slid]

As many of our mid-week meals are based on cut-up chicken breasts, I use Star San to generally sanitise the utensils and chopping boards as well as HB usage.