[Sca-cooks] food safe temperature

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
wrote:

> Huette mentioned:
> > The separate rubber rings you have
> > described are for use with glass canning lids
> and are very
> > very difficult to position just right in
> order to
> > achieve an airtight seal.
> 
> *glass* canning lids? Are you saying that the
> lids themselves are of 
> glass rather than metal? 

Yes.  And therefore reusable.  The rubber rings
needed to seal the glass lids to the glass jars
were not reusable.

> I don't think I've see
> any of these, unless I 
> have but didn't realize they were for canning.

The ones I have were inherited from my
Grandmother.  They are probably 90 years old.

> I've seen various 
> decorative jars with glass lids, usually with a
> metal wire arrangement 
> which acts as a hinge and a clamp to hold them
> closed. These usually 
> have a white rubber ring. The jars are often
> square in shape. Are these 
> actually (originally?) canning jars?

Yes.  But the ones I have are separate glass
lids that are held down with the metal screw
bands and sealed using the rubber rings.  No
hinge or clamp on what I own.

Huette

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