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Exploding Caeser dressing
BonandDom
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Treated myself last night to some Tesco Finest Caeser salad dressing:o
Got home all excited, sad I know, prepared my salad. Picked up the bottle and tried to shake as instructed on the bottle.
No movment in the contents, so undid the foil wrapper and started to twist the cap off and ****BOOM*****
Bloomin' salad dressing everywhere, me, the floor, ceiling, in the kettle:eek:, worktops, oven.
Quickly put the lid back on, spent an hour cleaning up. Started to eat my tea (without dressing) and heard this pop. Went back into the kitchen and it had popped the lid back off and sprayed all my nicely cleaned kitchen again:rotfl:
Lets see what Tesco has to say when I go back to them today clutching a very sticky half bottle of dressing!
Got home all excited, sad I know, prepared my salad. Picked up the bottle and tried to shake as instructed on the bottle.
No movment in the contents, so undid the foil wrapper and started to twist the cap off and ****BOOM*****
Bloomin' salad dressing everywhere, me, the floor, ceiling, in the kettle:eek:, worktops, oven.
Quickly put the lid back on, spent an hour cleaning up. Started to eat my tea (without dressing) and heard this pop. Went back into the kitchen and it had popped the lid back off and sprayed all my nicely cleaned kitchen again:rotfl:
Lets see what Tesco has to say when I go back to them today clutching a very sticky half bottle of dressing!
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How big a bottle did you buy? Sound like a wee bit of exaggeration going on here.Treated myself last night to some Tesco Finest Caeser salad dressing:o
Got home all excited, sad I know, prepared my salad. Picked up the bottle and tried to shake as instructed on the bottle.
No movment in the contents, so undid the foil wrapper and started to twist the cap off and ****BOOM*****
Bloomin' salad dressing everywhere, me, the floor, ceiling, in the kettle:eek:, worktops, oven.'The More I know about people the Better I like my Dog'
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It also sounds like there was some microbial contamination - this leads to a buld up of noxious gases and hence the explosion.Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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How big a bottle did you buy? Sound like a wee bit of exaggeration going on here.
I doubt its much of an exaggeration - I had a similar thing with a small bottle of fruit 'smoothie' ! It was only a 250ml bottle and, when I shook it up (as per instructions on the bottle), it exploded, the top shot off and my whole kitchen (ceiling, units, crockery etc on open display shelves) and me were all well spattered with sticky purple 'gunge'. Its amazing how far just a small amount will spatter whe its under pressure from fermented gas. The stuff dried and set like concrete, so, even after a good clean up, I was still finding little patches in odd places long after the event.ELITE 5:2
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How big a bottle did you buy? Sound like a wee bit of exaggeration going on here.
Not necessarily an exaggeration at all. It's very easy to get bottles to do that. Residual bacteria can generate gasses at a sufficiently high pressure to actually break the glass of a bottle.There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.0 -
VfM4meplse wrote: »It also sounds like there was some microbial contamination - this leads to a buld up of noxious gases and hence the explosion.
Sounds like my husband."Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.0 -
Not necessarily an exaggeration at all. It's very easy to get bottles to do that. Residual bacteria can generate gasses at a sufficiently high pressure to actually break the glass of a bottle.
+1. This has happened to me now and again with orange juice that's on the turn.
Being taught well in chemistry lessons about shaking stuff, I always turn the bottle gently upside down then right it again, and do this a few times. Much better way to mix contents than by frenzied shaking reminiscent of hand-relief from a poor afflicted Parkinsons sufferer.
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Et tu dress!?0
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fluffnutter wrote: »+1. This has happened to me now and again with orange juice that's on the turn.
It happened to me in Southern India with a bottle of orange I had had for a few days (which was kept in a fridge when not in transit). The result was explosive - and messy. And one hell of a surprise.There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.0 -
Fantastic! Self applying dressing!!0
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Check the use by dates?I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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