Adventures in Canning... Don't Do This...

Our butcher sells smoked ends for 19 cents a lb (ham, smoked chops, bacon ends, smoked bones with meat) and chicken "tidbits" (99 % of the time they are bits of breast cut from the point end. Slice off a tiny bit of skin and its perfect for stirfry. Once in a while livers or gizzards, and even less frequently, meaty breast bones. I separate them out (bones in a soup bone bag in the freezer until I have enough, puppies get the livers)Sometimes with the smoked ends, I will get whole smoked chops. there is always fixings for soup or beans or ham and eggs or pasta salad.
Our old (now defunct) grocery store used to sell cheese and meat ends from the deli for 99 a lb. I noticed walmart tosses them in a garbage bin right at the intersection of two deli cases where it comes to an angle and you cant see. take notice next time you buy deli stuff there, they over cut constantly and toss the overage. terrible waste.

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Did you manage to save the lid?

I don't know why, but this comment was the one that finally put me over the edge and made me spit out my drink!! LOL

I'll add one to the "stinky theme" of this thread...my brother was telling me, just this weekend, about a plastic tub that's sitting in the woods behind his house. Seems he'd been fishing, brought the fish home and cleaned them. Put all the innards, heads, etc. in a plastic tub.

Forgot about the tub for a week, then discovered it on the weekend when he was mowing grass. Now, he lives down in Mobile, AL and it gets hot in the summertime. That tub was RANK.

Sooooo...he dashed up to the stinky tub, quickly put the lid on tight and placed it in the woods behind his house.

Said the tub's been there three years now and there is no way he's going to touch it!

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Sounds like you're rehearsing for next season of The Colony!

PS< I'd pay to see the video of the bomb...

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I have too many issues with faulty lid marriages to begin with... but, yes, kept the ring... Rings get precious when you've got hundreds of jars, and hundreds of lids, but few rings. After last Fridays Raid on TSC, (free with coupons, and TSC discount coupons) my lid count is between 1 and 2k, closer to 2. "If" the "end" came, and they were no longer available, I'd re-use used lids.

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Lids are horribly expensive. In this case probably cost more than the meat in the jar.

Free is a pretty good price, for lids and pig meat as well.:1pig:

texican,

Had that happen in a paint store one day ! The older, oil based paint would ferment under the right conditions, and a can up on a high shelf ( where it was nice and warm ) blew up one day as I was picking up some stuff.....man....paint went EVERYWHERE !

A couple weeks ago I was rearranging the freezer and I took a whole chicken out and put it aside so I could shuffle things around (Intending to put it back). 2-3 days later after very warm days the whole room smelled really awful. The bag the chicken was in had a greenish film and was squirming around.

Nothing exploded, but I haven't been able to look at chicken again yet.

Chris

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Glad no one got hurt from that blast.
I had home ec in school and we were not taught anything about canning.

I found out the hard way you do not heat up vienna sausage in their can without first breaking the seal.

Back in '68 I had a coal stove and it was winter. I wanted a snack, found a can of vienna sausage and thought these would be better warm. Ding, brain storm, I took them and set them on top the coal stove. I went on about my business and sort of forgot that I was hungry. Next thing there was this explosion and I thought I had been shot at. I went running into the living room and what a mess I had. Vienna sausage had blown to bits and it was all over the ceiling, floor, stove and anything else close by. It took me the rest of the day to clean up that mess and even with wall papering the ceiling over the soaked up grease it was still coming through a couple years later when we moved.

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