Tomato paste boiled down – safe even though the lid doesn't retract?

I cook tomato paste in tiny jars (approx. 30 ml). One or two days later, I sterilize the filled jars again in a pressure cooker. Because the amount is so small, the twist-off lid often doesn't close properly. Is the tomato paste still safe thanks to sterilization?

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spelman
7 months ago

The vacuum is not required to preserve the content. If the content has been sufficiently heated, it is sterile, and now it is only about preventing re-germination.

The problem is that you have no control over whether the glass is really airtight without vacuum. In many cases it will be, but it can also be that individual glasses will be bad.

Why do you heat the glasses a second time? You do that with contents like meat. This is about botulinum bacteria, whose spores cannot be destroyed and sterilized at 100° C. The second heating then kills it. Tomato paste contains enough acid to prevent growth. Or do you just fill in hot first time? Then I understand that because the content is not enough for small glasses to heat the glass. I cook tomato sauce in 300g glasses. I only fill in the sauce hot, turn the lid and put it on the head for the next 15 minutes. That’s enough, I’ve never been bad.

spelman
7 months ago
Reply to  maidey

As far as I am informed, botulism is critical in protein-rich cooking. Meat, legumes, mushrooms. And protects acid. So tomatoes would actually be out. Beans or mushrooms that are sour cooked, too.

HikoKuraiko
7 months ago

How do you want to sterilize filled glasses? Although this does not work even in unfilled condition, the environment is not sterile (do not even get in the normal household).

These tiny small glasses are also suitable for cooking as the thread is too small. In addition, it makes no sense to cook the glasses and to heat it again one day later, because you dissolve the vacuum in this way or so again and give the germs a great opportunity to come into the glasses that are now opened again.

So either cook properly or leave the whole thing. Because now you should either freeze all the stuff, but for that you need some space in the glasses so that they don’t burst or you need to use all the stuff as soon as possible within a few days

emerel
7 months ago

You fill in hot and put the glasses on your head.

For cooked tomatoes

  1. Step
  2. Peel onions and garlic, cut and chop small. They are then sprayed together with the oil in a pot.
  3. Step
  4. Add tomato paste and roast everything together briefly.
  5. Step
  6. Then add washed and cut tomatoes and mix everything.
  7. Step
  8. Add spices: salt, cayenne pepper, sugar, paprika. Let everything boil together.
  9. Step
  10. Turn down heat and cook the tomatoes for 30 minutes.
  11. Step
  12. Add washed and small cut herbs to the pot at the end.
  13. Step
  14. Then with the piecing rod or mixer everything is well shredded so that no shell residues remain.
  15. Step
  16. Taste the final and fill in one-piece glasses. Screwed glasses can also be used well – then screw them well and put them on the head for cooling.
emerel
7 months ago
Reply to  maidey

I’ve never tried your procedure before, my method has always worked so far and with the tomato brand there have never been any problems.