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mizmir

Morning Karma! Great idea for book packaging (shuffling off to root the magazine covers out of the recycle bin...)

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

I won't use it any more for food, not since I learned about the effects of plastic leaching into food and water.

This is very interesting! I'm coming across more and more people who are doing this very thing - avoiding plastic touching food whenever possible.

Last month (back across the pond) my aunt was showing me how she freezes individual portions of soup in glass jars!!!!! Didn't even know that could be done - of course freezers over there are huge with shelves so it's a little easier to see what's stored. Not sure how to adapt this for my little freezer with small drawers - but giving it some thought!

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RT

ZTD

rtandon27 wrote: »

This is very interesting! I'm coming across more and more people who are doing this very thing - avoiding plastic touching food whenever possible.

BPA in the news again: http://www.physorg.com/news174206428.html

rtandon27 wrote: »

Last month (back across the pond) my aunt was showing me how she freezes individual portions of soup in glass jars!!!!! Didn't even know that could be done

Why did you think it couldn't?

rtandon27

ZTD wrote: »

Why did you think it couldn't?

Was so sure that the glass would shatter either in the freezing process or the defrosting process!!!

Seems that a good one to two inch headspace and defrosting slowly in the fridge solve this.:)

ZTD

rtandon27 wrote: »

Was so sure that the glass would shatter either in the freezing process or the defrosting process!!!

Seems that a good one to two inch headspace and defrosting slowly in the fridge solve this.:)

Water expands when it freezes. If you don't allow the room and try and keep it contained, then your container will give up before the water does. That's why you end up with burst pipes.

If you're old enough, you'll remember this on the doorstep...



Having said that, don't warm up (using warm water or something like that) glass containers during the defrosting. Unless they're pyrex they *will* shatter.

MatyMoo

rtandon27 wrote: »

Was so sure that the glass would shatter either in the freezing process or the defrosting process!!!

Seems that a good one to two inch headspace and defrosting slowly in the fridge solve this.:)

I thought that too

ZTD wrote: »

Water expands when it freezes. If you don't allow the room and try and keep it contained, then your container will give up before the water does. That's why you end up with burst pipes.

If you're old enough, you'll remember this on the doorstep...



Having said that, don't warm up (using warm water or something like that) glass containers during the defrosting. Unless they're pyrex they *will* shatter.

And probably because I remember milk bottles doing that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

I thought that too, about glass in the fridge shattering! But earlier this year, when I started managing to visit my mum again, we put a half opened jar of my beloved Waitrose pesto in the fridge, and it didn't shatter when we took it out last month :j:j:j I bought one of those BPA free plastic bottles from Milletts - half price with any other purchase (£0.79 for a piece of mint cake, £6 for the bottle :rotfl:) I had bought a National Trust metal bottle, but its got lots of clanky bits attached to the top, and it doesn't work for me (work as in, thats not what I want !).

Well, another Tuesday - which I'm currently spending admiring the layers of cloud, as the day dawns ... every shade of blue and grey, every shape, is up there, its fascinating.

What do you mean, this is dfw? :rotfl: Oh, okay:

- an hour of paid work.
- the accounts.
- wondering whether I'm going to manage to get any further forward on spiderproofing. Apart from spray, that is. At least spraying will *make* me go for a walk.
- oh! speaking of which, Sainsbo. There we go.

Ta-da! A dfw life in four easy steps Five, if you count watching clouds, and why shouldn't we?

gilligansyle

Got so engrossed reading about expanding glass, that my cuppa's gone cold!

Yes this is dfw, but you are allowed to look at clouds. They haven't started charging for that yet.

My DS frequently puts bottles of beer in the freezer to chill them faster, but has to remember to take them out before they freeze. Most of us can't spare the space for glass containers, as they tend not to come in neat stackable sizes. They look nicer though.

Karmacat

Sorry about the cuppa :kisses3:

Thank you for the clouds :j

Good point about glass. You know, some of the jam I buy from Lidl - good quality, but v cheap - is in squareish jars - I think I'll put them buy for storage, not just fantasy jam-making.

mizmir

Watching clouds is the most important bit!