How long does homemade chutney keep?

bcmaughan

Well I made some green tomato chutney in 2002 and discovered it in my shed and am now eating it and it is delicious!

Primrose

I've still got a jar of unopened tomato chutney in my cupboard which must be about eight years old. Last time I opened one it was still in perfect condition. The vinegar in it should preserve it indefinitely as long as the lid is firmly sealed. It should last several months after opening.

BitterAndTwisted

Oh, how I wish some kind person would give me some home-made tomato chutney of any age. I've nearly finished some home-made green bean chutney a pal gave me for Christmas and it's soooooooooo delicious. I think of him and bless him every time I see that jar of goodness.

Come summertime and vegetable gluts, I'm going to make some myself. I can't wait

Penelope_Penguin

Primrose wrote: »

I've still got a jar of unopened tomato chutney in my cupboard which must be about eight years old. Last time I opened one it was still in perfect condition. The vinegar in it should preserve it indefinitely as long as the lid is firmly sealed. It should last several months after opening.

I've just opened a jar of HM chutney labelled 2001 It's absolutely fine

powershopper

chutney? about three weeks in my house!!! seriously, should last years if you get it made and sealed properly...... but ask yourself if you need to keep it longer than the time between harvests. Freshly made each year has GOT to be better than keeping the shelves cluttered with donkeys years old stuff. Some years about August, we have a sort of chutney and pickle fest. to make way for the next lot. and no. I am hard wired to make far too much, so I can't produce less.......

System

I recently made chutney with everything in the pantry that had passed its best before date......

The sugar was apple and mint jelly of antique vintage in an unfeasibly large jar so had never been opened.
All the jams, jellies, pickles in the fridge that had been opened...
Prunes that kept getting overlooked because they had stones,
the loose fruit from the bottom of the dried fruit basket
Some dates from christmas (and I don' t think it was this christmas)
Goji berries (er - what is the point I asked in Holland Barratt)
The onion was dried garlic - once purchased a kilo bag and could not see me eating it all in this lifetime
a litre of tarragon vinegar for all the salads we were going to eat that summer (can't remember what summer though)
and so on.
Labelled it Best Before Chutney It was delicious - and I will never be able to reproduce it again

midnightraven3

echoes everyone else
chutney lasts forever and tastes better with age
we are down to our last 4 jars of last years eeeeeeeeeeeeeekkk
again green tomato here too due to lack of summer

but i have doubled the amount of tomato plants we are growing due to this lack of chutney to last till his years is ready!

Sio

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to decant chutney that was properly made and put into large sterilised Le Parfait Jars and now I want to put them into more practical smaller sterilised jars?. Will this affect the stability of the chutney? will it still be safe to eat?. It was made in October 2010.:cool:

daska

Sio wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to decant chutney that was properly made and put into large sterilised Le Parfait Jars and now I want to put them into more practical smaller sterilised jars?. Will this affect the stability of the chutney? will it still be safe to eat?. It was made in October 2010.:cool:

It'll still be safe to eat but... unless you heat it through again before you re-bottle it then, in theory, you risk it becoming contaminated. I'd slosh in a bit of water, boil it up and bottle as normal.

Any

What is the best chutney recipe?
We ordered red onion chutney in restaurant the other day and it was lovely, now I want to recreate the meal at home. I found recipe on BBC site for it, but it only mentions sugar, garlic, onion & butter...

Chutney made this way would not last long for storage, would it?