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Had to stop in the middle of processing--urgent!

11 years ago

I was canning pints of NCHFP Standard Tomato Sauce. I had to stop in the middle of processing to help a friend with something important. I turned the BWB off after 25 minutes of processing and left the jars in the water. They sealed, but they are short 10 minutes of processing. I will be cooking the tomato sauce before using, but I used the Santa Cruz lemon juice, which I know is also a risk. This was today so it has been less than 12 hours. Should I reprocess? If so, do I dump them out and can with new lids? Are there any other options? How long would they be good if I kept them in the fridge?

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digdirt2
11 years ago
Per guidelines: Since less than 24 hours the best bet and for safe shelf storage is to reprocess with new lids but you will also have to heat the sauce back up to temp since it is supposed to go into the BWB hot. So basically it means starting from scratch. Hot sauce, clean jars, new lids, full reprocess.

Dave
annie1992
11 years ago
I agree, dump the sauce in a pan, heat it up, put it into clean jars with new lids, and process again for the full time. Fortunately, tomato sauce shouldn't suffer from being reprocessed, so I wouldn't hesitate to do it again.

Annie
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