Other than filling with plaster and taking a cast of your bits, what use do you suggest for large glass jars?
Other than filling with plaster and taking a cast of your bits, what use do you suggest for large glass jars?
Seems like a shame to throw away and must have a use.
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Wash it, pour boiling water over it, put hot jam or other preserves inside, it will hold all winter. Just make sure the lid is concaved when the jam cools down - that means it seals well.
Wait, wait, wait!?! Wash it, then pour boiling water over it? Then put jam or whatever in the jar and it will be fine?!?
I'm not sure you've got all the steps in the correct order.
I assumed the hot water was to temper/test the glass so it doesn't shatter when you pour in the hot jam
You have to boil it after the jam is in there, at least that's what my mother used to do.
I think the boiling water would also be to help sanitize the container, but yeah, I've always boiled the container with the lid on but loose after putting the contents in and closing while hot to get the container sealed.
Oh, I see where the confusion comes from. Well, that's another way to do it I guess.
The hot water is to kill bacteria, of course you remove the water before you put the jam in. I have apple jam from 2022 canned using this method and it still holds, no mold and good taste.
I'm wodnering what seems so odd in this procedure because that's how I've been taught to do it