Brewing_Brad
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G'day all,
While I was visiting the parental units the other weekend, I managed to coerce to my old man into remeniscing about his childhood. Growing up in the bush, the youngest of 10, he has some fantastic stories of "making do".
Any way, short story long, the topic of preserving food came up and apparently my grandmother used to cut the tops off beer bottles (with a burning kero soaked string) and use them as preserving jars. She'd fill 'em up with jam or whatever, cover the opening with wax paper and wrap a band around it to keep it in place. My grandfather helped out by keeping her in a regular supply of bottles, which was very thoughtful of him.
It got me to thinking; every year I end up with more fruit and veg than I have jars...why not give the old beer bottle jar a go!
I attemtped to do the old burning string trick, but with dismal and almost dangerous results. So I jumped on the interweb and saw this video and have now ordered myself one of these (no affiliation yadda yadda but, I can tell you that Ephrem is a top bloke! I say this only because he upgraded my order for free and anyone who does anything for free is pretty tops in my books!).
So getting back on topic; has anyone tried this before with any success? Does anyone have any other old timey ways of "upcycling" as the trendy kids call it these days?
Cheers,
Brad
While I was visiting the parental units the other weekend, I managed to coerce to my old man into remeniscing about his childhood. Growing up in the bush, the youngest of 10, he has some fantastic stories of "making do".
Any way, short story long, the topic of preserving food came up and apparently my grandmother used to cut the tops off beer bottles (with a burning kero soaked string) and use them as preserving jars. She'd fill 'em up with jam or whatever, cover the opening with wax paper and wrap a band around it to keep it in place. My grandfather helped out by keeping her in a regular supply of bottles, which was very thoughtful of him.
It got me to thinking; every year I end up with more fruit and veg than I have jars...why not give the old beer bottle jar a go!
I attemtped to do the old burning string trick, but with dismal and almost dangerous results. So I jumped on the interweb and saw this video and have now ordered myself one of these (no affiliation yadda yadda but, I can tell you that Ephrem is a top bloke! I say this only because he upgraded my order for free and anyone who does anything for free is pretty tops in my books!).
So getting back on topic; has anyone tried this before with any success? Does anyone have any other old timey ways of "upcycling" as the trendy kids call it these days?
Cheers,
Brad