Bottles cracked

[Eberzin]

I always bottled my syrup in mason jars which I sterilized the bottles and lids. I did not heat the jars and have never had one break in my life. These are kitchen temperature though. This year I bought a bunch of flat glass bottles and plasti-seal caps from D+G. I am now in my cold garage. I preheat the glass in a tray of hot water on low propane flame and keep rotating new ones in as I bottle. This has worked great the first 4 times I bottled. Today I had 3 bottles next to each other crack in the tray of water and another had steam in it, so it must have a small crack somewhere. I assume that I just had a bad batch of bottles considering the three bottles came out of a new case and were next. I know others that pre-heat their glass this way. This type of glass bottle is new to me. I hope I am doing everything right. I assume these bottles would have cracked if I attempted to put hot syrup in them, without preheating. The way I look at it is it saved me a mess by weeding out the bad glass.

[Trapper2]

I always bottled my syrup in mason jars which I sterilized the bottles and lids. I did not heat the jars and have never had one break in my life. These are kitchen temperature though. This year I bought a bunch of flat glass bottles and plasti-seal caps from D+G. I am now in my cold garage. I preheat the glass in a tray of hot water on low propane flame and keep rotating new ones in as I bottle. This has worked great the first 4 times I bottled. Today I had 3 bottles next to each other crack in the tray of water and another had steam in it, so it must have a small crack somewhere. I assume that I just had a bad batch of bottles considering the three bottles came out of a new case and were next. I know others that pre-heat their glass this way. This type of glass bottle is new to me. I hope I am doing everything right. I assume these bottles would have cracked if I attempted to put hot syrup in them, without preheating. The way I look at it is it saved me a mess by weeding out the bad glass.


Wow, and I was contemplating going away from my Mason jars. I guess I will keep on doing what I have for the last 25.

[highlandcattle]

As a home canner i have alot of canning jars around. When we realized years ago how great the syrup looked in them we just used the jars. Prices are of course very reasonable compared to fancy. We bottle in clean jars from the canner(coffee urn) then upside down for a few minutes to sterilize then flip back up on a clean surface with space between to cool. No need to put in a canner for a water bath. Just my opinion. Never had one break or leak or mold.