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Homemade jam - too set to get out of jar

I've made a jar of jam but must have got my proportions wrong and it has set so hard I can't get it out of the jar - would have bent the spoon if I'd not given up. Any remedies or will I just have to bin it? TIA.
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  • kittycat204
    kittycat204 Posts: 1,824 Forumite
    Put it in the microwave, no idea what to do then, but least it'll melt it. Could be added to more fruit, since you've obviously got too high a pectin proportion.
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  • KingTVYN
    KingTVYN Posts: 21 Forumite
    Get a chisel :P
  • Farway
    Farway Posts: 14,799 Forumite
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    edited 7 June 2012 at 4:06PM
    Try it in a pan of hot water, microwave may give "hot spots" of boiling jam in a glass jar and boiling hot jam is not nice, especially cleaning it off the inside of a microwave
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  • PipneyJane
    PipneyJane Posts: 4,710 Forumite
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    Sounds like you made candy!

    I'd try sitting the jar in a pan of hot water for a while and see if that softens it enough to turn it out of the jar.
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  • hilstep2000
    hilstep2000 Posts: 3,089 Forumite
    I'd microwave it for 30 second blasts till it got looser
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