Marmalade....novel cleaning agent

[sean-a]

I made some marmalade this weekend.
I used an old pair of rubber beekeeping gloves to squeeze out the muslin and extract all the jelly... and the hot jam has cleaned all the old propolis and gunk off the gloves....and the marmalade tastes fab!

Just thought I'd share

 

[Fritillary]

Excellent!

 

[Tony M]

Reminds me of a tale told by my better half (ex teacher):

One of her pupils once offered her a scone, freshly made in the earlier Home Economics class. The offer was followed by the aside "I like making scones - it gets all the muck out from under your fingernails".
Needless to say, the offer was politely declined!

Yum!

Tony.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I made some marmalade this weekend.
I used an old pair of rubber beekeeping gloves to squeeze out the muslin and extract all the jelly... and the hot jam has cleaned all the old propolis and gunk off the gloves....and the marmalade tastes fab!

Just thought I'd share

Stewing Rhubarb is a superb way to clean hard water scale from saucepans. When our firstborn came along glass baby bottles were still in vogue and sterilisation by boiling the norm. We ended up with a severely scaled aluminum saucepan. After boiling up a stewed rhubarb batch the pan gleamed like a brand new one.

 

[For want of a better word]

Stewing Rhubarb is a superb way to clean hard water scale from saucepans. When our firstborn came along glass baby bottles were still in vogue and sterilisation by boiling the norm. We ended up with a severely scaled aluminum saucepan. After boiling up a stewed rhubarb batch the pan gleamed like a brand new one.

Apibipoxall or whatever the £11 for 35 pence worth sachets of stuff will do the same!

Yeghes da

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Apibipoxall or whatever the £11 for 35 pence worth sachets of stuff will do the same!

Yeghes da

Yes but the Rhubarb grows in the garden for nowt

 

[oliver90owner]

The thread reminds me of an uncle who worked on pumps. He was at a jam factory and rather oily/greasy to above his elbows, after fixing their pump problem. When he asked about cleaning up facilities he was directed to a large vat of jam/marmalde or similar. He said it worked marvellously but he would not be buying that make of jam in future!

Naive of him because it was likely a common practice in most, or all, jam factories of the day!