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Fleecewife

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Haunted jampot lids
« on: October 04, 2013, 02:49:36 pm »
 
I just finished making a batch of damson and golden gage jam.  I put the lids on - new from Lakeland - and tightened them.  Weirdly, two of the lids promptly undid themselves a quarter turn, and repeated this every time I retightened them  :o    What's going on?  :thinking:
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doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2013, 02:51:13 pm »
Pressure too great?  Leave a bit to cool?
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
    • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2013, 05:18:49 pm »
No, I think it's poltergeists  ;D
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Garvie

  • Joined Jan 2012
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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2013, 05:20:59 pm »
someone playing a trick on you? :)
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happygolucky

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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2013, 05:40:38 pm »
Anne is probably right, the pressure in the jars, but I just had to post as a few hours before I read this post I said to a visitor that our rug was haunted as it keeps getting nearer and nearer the front door!!! :roflanim: , my gran used to say the same about a table, its funny but some things do test us, there is nearly always a logical explanation for strange movements....... :thinking:
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Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Durham
Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2013, 09:51:56 pm »
I would love to know what's in these jams if they are so powerful they can bring the spirits  knocking  :o  :roflanim:
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bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2013, 09:57:01 pm »
check out the whereabouts of fleecehusband and see if he has jam on his fingers!!!
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happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2013, 10:48:27 pm »
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                         check out the whereabouts of fleecehusband and see if he has jam on his fingers!!!
:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2013, 11:58:51 pm »
 :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
 
Fleecehusband was in the workshop and his hands were all oily, so definitely not him  :D
 
The lids are gingham check so I could watch the pattern turn itself  :o    I hadn't looked away.  It was probably poltergeists as Bionic Sally says  :roflanim:   I grew up in a haunted house but I didn't think this one was  :tired:
 
 
Maybe I put them on when the jam was still too hot, but I always let it stand for 5 mins before I put it in the jars, to cool a little so the fruit doesn't rise to the top, so it wasn't extra hot.
 
I wondered if there was a film of moisture around the rim of the two freaky jars - maybe I hadn't dried them properly and that was enough to lubricate them when Doganjo's increased pressure had its effect.   Or,  :idea:  the lids were cold and the jam was hot, so the lids tried to expand in the heat, which made them turn.  It didn't do it after a few minutes.
 
Next batch of jam I'll experiment and see if I can make it happen again.  :yippee:
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SallyintNorth

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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2013, 09:52:52 am »
Quote from: Fleecewife on October 04, 2013, 11:58:51 pm

Next batch of jam I'll experiment and see if I can make it happen again.  :yippee:

 :thumbsup:  My kinda gal  :excited:

Do let us know!
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Bright Raven

  • Joined May 2010
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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2013, 09:29:46 pm »
It's not the lids, its the power of your jam. Don't eat too much it may unscrew your head.  :roflanim:
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happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2013, 09:34:43 pm »
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It's not the lids, its the power of your jam. Don't eat too much it may unscrew your head.
:roflanim: :roflanim:  we have a haunted cake tin, the cakes go in then they disappear and no ones eaten them  :innocent:
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2013, 12:07:56 am »
Quote from: Bright Raven on October 07, 2013, 09:29:46 pm
It's not the lids, its the power of your jam. Don't eat too much it may unscrew your head.  :roflanim:

 
Too late  :tired: :tired: :tired: :knit:
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Lesley Silvester

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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2013, 10:12:24 pm »
 :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
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Re: Haunted jampot lids
« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2013, 11:45:20 pm »
Today I made a batch of 9lbs of jam and tried to reproduce the exact conditions of last time to see if the haunting happened again.  Unfortunately I couldn't get a single lid to rotate of its own volition.  Disappointing  ::)  So does that prove it was the poltergeist the first time? ;D
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