I'm sorry, but that recipe is not designed for canning.

Secondarily, assuming you use canned pineapple juice (the usual choice), most of the BBQ sauce is just mixing together already bottled products - i.e. the juice, ketchup, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce. Why bother canning something so simple?

Carol

Here is a link that might be useful: Pineapple BBQ Sauce

Carol is correct - as always. That is a fresh-use-only recipe and not a canning recipe. Like regular cooking recipes, most fresh-use recipes cannot be safely canned for shelf storage. They have never been tested for proper pH and density for canning. Recipes that are approved for canning will always include the instructions for doing it, processing times, jar size, etc.

If you feel you must make it ahead of time for storage you could freeze it although I think it would keep well in the fridge for several weeks.

Dave

Carol, the link you posted is the same as the one I posted. Is that a mistake?

No she was just making it a clickable link so the rest of us could check it out too. Much easier than having to copy, open another window, and paste.

Dave

Thanks Dave.

I wanted to can some bbq sauce because I don't always have time to make the sauce. I thought it would be nice to be able to have some ready for use at all times.

So what makes a recipe suitable/not suitable for canning?

One that comes from a reliable source, designed for canning. Not a cooking recipe. They are not at all the same. Try the Ball Blue book or the Univ. of Georgia website. They are safety tested recipes.
Otherwise, freeze the sauces instead.

There are many approved (as in tested for safety) BBQ sauce recipes. As Linda Lou said try any of the canning cookbooks or NCHFP - linked below - or the Ball website, or homepreserving.com for starters.

If you use one of the approved recipes for canning then you can always add the pineapple juice and bits at food prep time. And in some cases, since the pineapple juice is so acidic you can sub some of it for the other liquids called for in the recipe.

What makes a cooking recipe unsafe for canning is that you cannot know the pH or the density of it so you can't determine a method of processing or a time for processing. Safe canning recipes always include that information.

Recipes that include all sorts of low-acid foods like onions, garlic, peppers, fresh herbs, etc. require sufficient acid to be added to make them safe for shelf storage in an anaerobic environment. Note how much more vinegar is called for in the NCHFP Bar B Q Sauce recipe than in the one you linked.

Ball also has a good recipe for Bar B Q Sauce that calls for 1/3 c lemon juice and you could easily use pineapple juice instead.

Hope this helps.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: NCHFP

The lemon juice is probably for safety and should not be exchanged with pineapple juice until the recipe is checked out.

Sorry I posted the wrong link to the Ball recipe. The lemon juice is in addition to all the vinegar in the recipe Linda Lou. pH of pineapple juice is listed at 3.3. Not as acidic as lemon at 2.6 true, but still quite acidic. You could easily increase the amount of the pineapple juice too to make the mixture even more acidic.

But like I said, just my opinion.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Ball Bar B Q Sauce

That is really quite a difference in ph. Each number is 10 times different in acidity.
I would check the fruit salsas on the NCHFP and compare the fruit to the acidity of pineapple. For example, the mango salsa or the peach apple one.
I have no time to figure it out tonight.

ikea gw,

You could make a big batch of your BBQ sauce and freeze it in containers to defrost when you want it.

Z

To add to the previous comments, it's not that your recipe is unsafe, it's that it's unknown. It might be fine to process and it might not. As it's untested, we have no way of determining the answer.

It's a question of whether the higher-acid pineapple juice, cider vinegar and ketchup are sufficient to compensate for the low-acid jalapenos, ginger, cilantro, Worcestershire (which contains anchovies), and soy sauce.

Carol

Pineapple barbecue sauce sounds amazing, especially with a kick of habanero. Since it contains low-acid ingredients like onions or garlic alongside the fruit, you'll want to check if it requires a pressure canner or if the acidity is high enough for a water bath.