Thread: Anyone tried McGee's hot water bath for fresh berries?

I'm going to make a point to try that too. But, if I understand his article correctly, it's mold already present on the thin skins of the berries that causes the problem. It's these that the hot water bath purports to eliminate. I can see that a sealed glass jar would eliminate new mold spores but how would it inhibit ones already present?

"I hope I'll remember it next summer." ~~~~~~ i said the same thing! perhaps one of us *will* remember, and post a reminder...

I have not tried it, but when I read it, I thought, has he tried storing his berries in a glass jar? Seriously, you learn great things on Chowhound, and one of the umpteen I've learned over the years is that storing unwashed berries in a glass jar with a tight lid majorly extends their keeping.

I wrote it down in my little red notebook of cooking tips. Now where do I write the note to remind myself to check the red notebook?.....

I want to know your results!!!

The glass jar works like magic. I learned about it on Chowhound. I don't think there is any way of 'blanching' berries and retaining their original texture. I won't be doing it.