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home canning - (Aug/24/2016 )

Homegrown clean cucumbers soaked in cold water, boiled rolled into the banks, the composition of the brine: water, vinegar, dill, garlic, black polka dots, pink, salt, sugar. As a result of that there were white Microbiology? They grow, become more! The banks that do not have them explode in 2-3 days. Some rolled just moldy - white film inside swim, turbid brine, but not in the photo film and the brine cloudy. Maybe some will advise the laboratory where it is attributed to the analysis of (recent tap water gives plastic can local plant chemicals which drains)? How to roll the banks to such does not appear?


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-Bellissimo-

Probably a filamentous fungus of some sort. Usually these sorts of things will disappear with a bit of practice and sterile technique (washing hands properly etc...). Make sure you boil the cucumbers for several minutes in the brine and use sterile tongs (boil in the solutions with the cucumbers) to transfer

 

Make sure you sterilize the jars (banks?) before filling -Wash thoroughly, rinse in very hot water (close to boiling if possible), dry, heat in an oven to about 150 C and then allow to cool to close to 100 C before filling. You could also use a chemical sterilizer such as sodium metabisulfite (don't use bleach!).

 

The tap water is unlikely to result in this, plastics residues are pretty common in water supplies (think of all the people drinking bottled water), it is more likely that you have missed a sterilization step somewhere.

-bob1-