Post #784516 by Piddersthecat on Thu, Mar 1, 2018 6:46 AM

I feel your thinking pain...I thought more about this after I posted (about the vodka anyway). It stands to reason that vodka works (just not their vodka on those organisms under the specific circumstances...). Those are a fair amount of conditions that need to be met. The analogy that I thought of was water bath canning. I know that there are things that you can water bath can (i.e. pineapple syrup, which I can at home because tasty) and things that you can't can with a water bath (i.e. ginger syrup, which I thought about trying but it's too basic). Just because water bath canning doesn't kill botulism and under specific circumstances botulism can grow even in a higher acidity item, that doesn't negate the fact that I know water bath canning is safe for specific things.

After all of that rambling this morning...my point is...it's not only those 5 organisms that you are guarding against and others are obviously affected by the vodka. So vodka in syrup stays. Just not in my pineapple syrup because I process it in a water bath canner :wink: