Homework anyone?
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spoomeister, the dog did NOT eat my homework, I swear, there really was a power outage- ask Crash who got to read bits of part 3 before it was eaten :P I really woulda posted it, if I had been smarter about it before noodling off to make dinner... I was actually quite frustrated when it got et. (an' I know, coulda, woulda, shoulda...)
Speaking of homework, I never took Chemistry, so I am at a loss about what's going on in my spice rack.
See, I got some snazzy jars to go with it because I had loads of spices in bags (long story about assuming I would eventually find my old spice jars would go here, but I won't bore you). I moved all the bags into the jars, and then had a few left over. I figured I would eliminate some of the other ugly jars and boxes I still had by transferring the stuff into the extra jars. It all seems to have gone fine except for the ground cloves...
The ground cloves came from a box and a jar (different brands, I assumed it wouldn't make a difference). I dumped one in after the other and didn't shake it up. A couple days later I looked at the cloves, and this weird metallic film is forming on the inside of the jar, along the lines where one layer of cloves stops and the other starts. Thing is I can't remember which batch of cloves got dumped in first, so I don't know whether this is metal that leeched out of the box of cloves, or some weird thing about the jar of cloves... I would assume it was something about the stuff from the metal box, since it clearly looks metallic, but why didn't anything else I moved out of a box do that in which case? I think my impulse to toss it is probably on target, but if it's just this thing about cloves that the ooze metal, then it will probably happen again, yes? Any scientist/chefs out there care to comment?
spoomeister, the dog did NOT eat my homework, I swear, there really was a power outage- ask Crash who got to read bits of part 3 before it was eaten :P I really woulda posted it, if I had been smarter about it before noodling off to make dinner... I was actually quite frustrated when it got et. (an' I know, coulda, woulda, shoulda...)Speaking of homework, I never took Chemistry, so I am at a loss about what's going on in my spice rack.
See, I got some snazzy jars to go with it because I had loads of spices in bags (long story about assuming I would eventually find my old spice jars would go here, but I won't bore you). I moved all the bags into the jars, and then had a few left over. I figured I would eliminate some of the other ugly jars and boxes I still had by transferring the stuff into the extra jars. It all seems to have gone fine except for the ground cloves...
The ground cloves came from a box and a jar (different brands, I assumed it wouldn't make a difference). I dumped one in after the other and didn't shake it up. A couple days later I looked at the cloves, and this weird metallic film is forming on the inside of the jar, along the lines where one layer of cloves stops and the other starts. Thing is I can't remember which batch of cloves got dumped in first, so I don't know whether this is metal that leeched out of the box of cloves, or some weird thing about the jar of cloves... I would assume it was something about the stuff from the metal box, since it clearly looks metallic, but why didn't anything else I moved out of a box do that in which case? I think my impulse to toss it is probably on target, but if it's just this thing about cloves that the ooze metal, then it will probably happen again, yes? Any scientist/chefs out there care to comment?
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answering the call of science...
Date: 2005-01-09 06:44 am (UTC)Anyway, yeah, the cloves from the box prolly absorbed metal, and now those cloves are reacting with the stuff from the jar, and giving up its metal.
I'm guessing: separate the two batches (more or less); you should be able to tell the difference by taste (one will taste metallic is my guess). I would get rid of that batch; unless eating corroded metal box is something you want to do.