Sterilising jars

[BeeJayBee]

hard water area ... leaves a deposit if you just leave water in a glass overnight !

Which is why I run my jars through the dishwasher rather than rinsing them and drying in the oven.

I recall being told that hard water is good for children, because the tiny amount of added calcium in the diet makes teeth stronger, and it may slow osteoporosis as long as diet and vitD levels are good.

 

[pargyle]

What's that about used to? I know some have gone (Wards was wonderful when I lived in Sheffield as a Student).

But Keighley still produces arguably the best bitter in the world; Landlord

Wards is now a block of posh flats, Stones was bought by Bass who moved the brewing from the Cannon Brewery in Sheffield to Walsall and Burton on Trent in 1995 and destroyed the flavour ~ it now belongs to Coors who reduced the ABV and it's nothing like it used to be, although it is now brewed in Tadcaster so at least it's back in Yorkshire.

As far as I know there are no major breweries left in Sheffield although there are a few micro breweries (Kelham Island, Abbeydale and Bradfield) - the latter is not strictly in Sheffield as it is in Bradfield) if they are still going.

I always liked Tennants Best which was also brewed in Sheffield at the Exchange Brewery ... that was swallowed up by Whitbread in the late 1970's I think and the brewery closed.

When you consider that at one point Stones Bitter had about 14% of the cask beer market you do wonder what has happened .. and now the biggest share of the British beer trade is owned by an American corporation ...

 

[pargyle]

I think youll find cumbria has the best water of all, no scale here, & we get a lather with soap & shampoo!

Well you certainly get into a bit of a lather up there ...

 

[pargyle]

Which is why I run my jars through the dishwasher rather than rinsing them and drying in the oven.

I recall being told that hard water is good for children, because the tiny amount of added calcium in the diet makes teeth stronger, and it may slow osteoporosis as long as diet and vitD levels are good.

Yes .. I usually sterilise jam jars (not honey jars) in the oven after washing and draining them but I find that there is often a small amount of dry limescale in the bottom of the jars when they come out of the oven ... I just tip it out. I like the jam jars nice and hot when I fill them.

Honey jars will be done in the dishwasher.

 

[bontbee]

What's NaCl2?

Sodium chloride more often called salt !

Is it?

 

[pargyle]

Is it?

I rather asssumed the '2' was a typo ....

 

[MuswellMetro]

Is it?

it does exist as Sodium Dichloride but usually written CL2 Na

 

[bpmurray]

it does exist as Sodium Dichloride but usually written CL2 Na

I would have assumed that Cl2Na was a negative ion, not independent in its own right, i.e. not something one might find in a salt cellar.

 

[bontbee]

Please stop!! I was just being mischievous - I should have known better.... I think JBG gave the right answer!

 

[pargyle]

Please stop!! I was just being mischievous - I should have known better.... I think JBG gave the right answer!

You started it ... now look what's happened ... we'll be arguing over 2 ions for weeks now...

 

[bontbee]

You started it ... now look what's happened ... we'll be arguing over 2 ions for weeks now...

Yes, I know, I am going to make myself sit in the naughty corner now. Please let me know when I come out to play again.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

You started it ... now look what's happened ... we'll be arguing over 2 ions for weeks now...

Let's not get started on Sodium Chlorate over in the grass control thread

 

[bontbee]

Let's not get started on Sodium Chlorate over in the grass control thread

You'd better join me in the naughty corner

 

[bpmurray]

Let's not get started on Sodium Chlorate over in the grass control thread

Haven't been able to buy that in Ireland for many years - too easy to convert to an explosive.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Haven't been able to buy that in Ireland for many years - too easy to convert to an explosive.

That's why you can't buy it anywhere - no point banning it now really, much better recipes around now!!