Jeffcat, Just a question about your canning experience...

Greg1959 · Jul 12, 2017

Sometimes, you post about entering your canning products into competition. You 'can' some 'purdy' stuff.

I got to wondering...Do the judges ever get to taste the product or do they just grade it on how it looks in the jar?

If they do get to taste the product from another jar, how do they know the original(SHOW) jar was canned the same way?

Thanks.

jeffcat · Jul 13, 2017

One fair you enter one jar of product. They open them and sample. That one entry stays the whole six days. Sunday you pick up your jars and wash them out. The other fair you enter two jars. One is sampled and you can pick that one up a couple of hours after the judging. The second jar stays for the fair and you pick them up on Sunday. Thats about it.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 13, 2017

Do you enter in the hunterdon county fair in ringoes?We try to go to that one.

PaGlenn · Jul 13, 2017

In the late 1800's the glass manuf. created the clear jar by adding selenium or manganese to the mixture. All glass back then came out a green or blue color from the minerals in the sand. The ladies complained that the green or blue coloring made their canning look bad when displayed at fairs. If you run into any purple glass out in the woods, it is from 100yrs exposure by the sun to the manganese or selenium.

jeffcat · Jul 13, 2017

Yup. Judged with the Rutgers extension service rule sheets.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 13, 2017

we will try to go this year and look up your entries,,we like that fair a lot

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