Not 100% sure they followed correct practice while pressuring. Juice looks milky, settling at the bottom. I’ve never seen this in my own bottling. They report they taste ‘sour’. I’m not eating it.
I advised them to dump and read the manual before next years attempts.
Anyone see this ‘milky before’ and is it an issue?
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Cloudy liquid often indicates spoilage in home canned foods. Especially given that they can tell it tastes off I would recommend tossing it.
Would not eat
IF YOU KNEW they followed a safe recipe and method, then the cloudiness could be from using iodized salt instead of canning salt and the sourness could be flat sour bacteria (unappetizing but not harmful) spoilage from not cooling down the jars quickly enough (such as leaving them in the canner after it has returned to zero pressure or putting a towel over the cooling jars). Even safe but with flat sour, I’d dump out the jars and not eat them.
However since you don’t know how these were canned, I would definitely just throw them out altogether. They are not likely to be safe. The cloudiness could indicate any number of kinds of spoilage and with the sour taste, why would you even want to risk it?
No Bueno. I’ve gotten cloudiness because I used sea salt instead of canning salt, not like this though.
I’ll tell you I threw out some spoiled green beans leftover from Thanksgiving today, and they had a film on the bottom on the container that looks a lot like that. I would toss them.
It almost looks like a yeast contaminant to me… surprised none of the seals have popped!
I am going to strongly urge them to trash it all!!