A visit to a Charity Shop
........is always dangerous for me. Today (Tuesday) I have come back with a very large baby steriliser unit that has a nice deep lid for £3. That means that potentially I can process 8 bottles of home made cordial in this new one and six in the old unit. I have spent £5 on the two units in total and it makes the unit easy and clean to use when processing lots of bottles of cordial. You can leave it on a work top and get on with something else. Much better than slaving over a hot stove with steam and water bubbling everywhere. One of the problems using larger bottles for storing cordial in is that once the bottle of cordial is opened you have to store it in the fridge; but prior to that you have trouble finding a pan to hold the deep bottles in. I have that sort of equipment but have found that for the two of us and for general long term use, using the hex bottles are simpler to process in smaller amounts and if you want larger quantiti...