Marlingardener
Sous Chef
Wooley, canning jars around here have a price beyond rubies! Treat them with respect, store them carefully, and enjoy the home canned produce. I assume you are not only a canner, but a gardener also.
Oh he already did/does that and they are all full. He has partial boxes of full jars on his shelves and doesn't want to mix product in the boxes to come up with empty boxes. Hard headed old man.Before you kick his butt, why don't you suggest to him to put the empty carton, that normally holds the canning jars, on the floor/counter/chair, and place the washed jars in them (upside down, keeps them cleaner) as he goes along. Then move the filled carton to storage and bring back a new carton.
(that's what I used to do, worked for me)
Oh I do take care of them and only one broken jar out of 700 and a ***@@@@ FedEx driver did it then tried to tell me he didn't drop them. I watched him drop a bundle of 4 cases.Wooley, canning jars around here have a price beyond rubies! Treat them with respect, store them carefully, and enjoy the home canned produce. I assume you are not only a canner, but a gardener also.
In my opinion, all recipes should use weights wherever it's practical. Things like onions, garlic cloves, shredded/grated cheeses, etc. can vary so much a recipe could be ruined.and so did you correct the recipe?
Does it now read ... ".... the family's jewels worth of beef" ?
SLoB, I'm not sure how your post fits in with this thread...but, if I were you, I would MOVE, quickly! I'll take dogs over people, most days!My apartment biulding doesn't allow pets.
A cup of butter weighs very close to half a pound. We always figure that a pound of butter has two cups.Yes, the measurements on websites are a problem from this side of the pond too. I bought myself a set of measuring cups which mostly helped - with the exception of "a cup of butter". I don't want to wedge butter into a cup - I just want to know the weight of butter to use!
measuring cups help - I use them to measure and record how many grams to use . . .Yes, the measurements on websites are a problem from this side of the pond too. I bought myself a set of measuring cups which mostly helped - with the exception of "a cup of butter". I don't want to wedge butter into a cup - I just want to know the weight of butter to use!
But, the "standard stick of butter" weighs a quarter of a pound. If someone is using a non-standard size stick of butter in a publicly shared recipe, then I would be skeptical about the rest of the recipe.You have to be careful with a recipe that calls for a stick of butter. I have seen packaged butter in which the sticks were ⅛ of a pound or half of what you'd expect.