[Sca-cooks] Favorite Spice Containers
Maggie MacDonald
maggie5 at cox.net
Fri Oct 6 00:25:42 PDT 2006
At 11:26 PM 10/5/2006,Susan Fox said something like:
>Hmmmm. Good point. The oregano I had in a corked bottle like that dried out
>too darn fast. Maybe we should make angled-in cylindrical tops to
>gravity-fit, maybe with a bit of bee's wax around the edge to hold it in
>place? Just a thought.
>
>Sel.
I've never had good luck with cork over any serious long use. On cordials
it crumbles an falls into the bottle, with herbs it dries out, and then you
have air flowing into the bottle and oils flowing out. I've tried wrapping
the cork in the flexible wax tape type stuff from medical supplies, and
that just keeps it in place, it doesn't protect it over the long
term. It's lovely stuff (cork), but its just not sturdy.
Thus the glass jars with the plastic seal in the lid. Baby food jars are
tighter than cork, but not reeeal tight. Sometimes I've ben known to take
old baby food jars and pack hot jam in them and it worked. But, I wouldn't
count on it working every time.
Cheers,
Maggie
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