Do bread and butter pickles need to be refrigerated after opening?

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1. Do bread and butter pickles need to be refrigerated after opening?
2. Can I get botulism from pickles?
3. Why are my gherkins fizzing?
4. Do pickles bubble?
5. How long do you boil jars to sanitize them?

Do bread and butter pickles need to be refrigerated after opening?

This pickle recipe was handed down to me. The recipe is the star here as these are the best bread and butter pickles I've ever found. ... These don't need to be refrigerated until you open a jar.

Can I get botulism from pickles?

Molds growing in pickles can use the acid as food thereby raising the pH. ... Making sure enough vinegar is added to the cucumbers is important to make safe pickles; Clostridium botulinum can grow in improperly canned, pickled foods with a pH higher than 4.

Why are my gherkins fizzing?

Garden Master I remember reading that he makes fermented pickles. Rotteness would be smelled and tasted if they were bad, and mold would grow on top. A ferment will build up carbonation from the natural yeasts, which explains the pop and fizz if they were tightly sealed.

Do pickles bubble?

Within a day or two of starting a batch of pickles, you'll see bubbles of carbon dioxide gas in the liquid surrounding the vegetables, indicating that the lactobacillus is thriving and the brine has started to acidify.

How long do you boil jars to sanitize them?

In order to actually sterilize jars, they need to be submerged in (covered by) boiling water for 10 minutes. When the process time for canning a food is 10 minutes or more (at 0-1,000 feet elevation), the jars will be sterilized DURING processing in the canner.