I'm pressure canning distilled water. Not for humane consumption, but for plant tissue culture. It will be used to rinse a sanitizing solution off of explants, in a sterile environment, before inserting the plant cutting in a multiplication media, so the water will need to be sterile.
My question is, how long is enough time to sterilize quart jars of distilled water @ 15 psi. For this batch, I went with 40 minutes, but I would like to know if this is enough time, or if it is overkill. I let the water in the canner, with the jars sitting in it, get to a low boil before placing the lid on and letting vent for 10 minutes, then placed the weight on, and waited for the pressure to build to 15 psi before starting my 40 minute timer.
by Alexander-Evans
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Follow recipe for stock, if it’ll kill everything in stock, it’ll kill everything in water.