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Alcohol preserves much much better than vinegar. You can put peppers into alcohol without processing and that will work just fine. The problem is that alcohol is more expensive. Otherwise it would be used all the time. You can put peppers into vinegar without processing just fine also. just do not add water. you can leave the vinegar peppers on the shelf. no problems. same with alcohol. I never process my peppers. Everyone in the pepper forums never process peppers in vinegar. Alcohol is a super preserver way better than vinegar. Now I am talking about peppers with nothing added like garlic. Garlic has some preservation problems. Other spices might have a problem. Peppers work just fine. for example garlic does not ferment like a pickle. If you need natural pickling fermentation then avoid garlic. peppers in alcohol are not pickled but they are preserved. the word pickled comes from natural fermentation in which a form of vinegar is made in the fermenation process. hospitals use alcohol to kill off all germs in cleaning. do not worry. those peppers will be preserved in alcohol. I never process the peppers since the heat softens the peppers. You do not want to process peppers unless you have to. soft peppers are lower quality. thus I always use 100% vinegar with no water added. Alcohol is the perfect preserver except it cost more money. It is way better at preserving than 100% vinegar. If you want to make a hot sauce for cooking. You can put the peppers and alcohol in a blender and grind them up and bottle them with no processing and leave them on the shelf. no problem.

I never got sick either, but a bunch of family members got sick from eating my Aunt Midge's pickled mushrooms at a family party once. It kind of takes the fun out of an evening, watching Aunt Esther barf in the bushes..... It does happen, although it doesn't happen often, in my experience. Some cases of botulism do come from home canned foods and some people do die, although not many. The risk is relatively miniscule. Many cases come from the same area, like a whole bunch of people in Alaska that ate badly canned salmon. Others come from commerical items like that Bolthouse Farms carrot juice and the baked potatoes at the restaurant that were wrapped in foil and left sitting on the counter for hours. The "rules" in Canada are different than the "rules" in the United States because we are loathe to take any risk at all, IMO. The extension services do not want the liability of someone coming back and saying "you said it was all right and now I'm sick". I don't think it's necessarily the government's job to protect us from our own cooking, but many people do. The guidelines are extremely conservative, IMO, but very safe. I do not know Canada's testing specificiations, or any other country's, for that matter, so do they know something we don't know or are they more independent or bigger risk takers? Beats me. At any rate, there's a risk, albeit extremely small. Maybe even smaller than that, LOL. I choose to take it, and it's my choice. I'd eat LindaC's jelly too. Oh, that's right, I already have! It's the "don't" part that got my back hairs raised, I'd rather see a "did you know that it's not tested, I just thought I'd let you know" approach. And agmss, I agree, the Search function here is abysmal, next to useless. Ugh. I don't even try to use it anymore, I just Google "gardenweb" and whatever I'm looking for. Annie

Thanks for the input and suggestions. When I first started researching mattresses, it seemed that a latex mattress would be a great choice for us. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a local store that carries 100% latex mattresses. I don't feel comfortable making an internet purchase when I haven't been able to try one in person. The iComfort mattress is appealing because of its impressive no-sag warranty. As I recall, there is a 20 year non-prorated warranty for sagging as little as 3/4 ". I have heard, but not verified, that the no-sag warranties on most of the other mattresses, particularly innerspring, is as much as 2 1/2". I did the preliminary testing but when I get my husband to go out on the next shopping trip, I'll take with me the height measurements of our current mattress and box spring so that we don't end up with something that we need a step stool to get into.