-=> Sabine Becker said this about "Tea" 
-=> to Greg Mayman on 17 May 97  22:10:00....
 SB> Have you ever picked the pieces of a glass bottle out of your face and
 SB> hands after its explosion? :-) The most glass bottles are unable to
 SB> face   cooking water without exploding. Maybe it works once, maybe
 SB> twice or more   times, but one day ... I don't want to take this risk,
 SB> I need my hands and   my face ;-)
NEVER try to heat glass jars by filling the cold jar with hot
liquid. They will almost always shatter.
But if you heat or cool them gradually there is no risk -
absolutely NONE - that they will shatter. But they can give you
a nasty burn.
People have been preserving fruit in glass jars for many many
years, and the only accidents have been from not doing things the
proper way.
 SB> In German echoes and newsgroups they told me to put some ascorbin acid
 SB> into the tea (for example lemon juice) and to put it into the fridge.
Any acid will help, the stronger the better, but it will change
the flavour, and sometimes spoil it.
The best way to keep out the yeasts and moulds is to kill them
with heat and then seal the containers.
Otherwise, you should make only enough to use in one day, and
keep it covered in the refrigerator.
a word from Greg, in Adelaide, South Australia
... But one man's righteousness is another's outrageousness!
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