In all my years of canning, I’ve never had a bad jar . . or if I did, I didn’t know it and we survived. As I was packing up my jars, I noticed this jar of beans:
The jar is still sealed. No oozing and the lid is still down. Since the beans were put up in batches of 7 quarts and this was the only bad jar, I’m guessing there was a contaminant in the jar and it wasn’t properly cleaned and sterilized.
Of course I’ll throw it away but I thought it was interesting that this happened.
Vicki W says
That wouldn’t make a good color palette like a rotten pie does! lol!
Doe in Mi says
That sure is strange Judy~! I’ve done and have seen alot of canning done by my Mom and never saw anything like that unless the lid had popped up. I think you must be right about a contaminate.
Peggy says
I would guess, but have known to be wrong that the lid appears to be OK due to the ring still being on the jar. I have has lids lift off when the ring was taken off, but still appear to have a seal. Good thing that lovely growth appeared instead of someone eating the beans and become sick.
I would still rather take chances with my own canned goods rather then some of the store bought stuff. At least I know the vegetables and fruit were cleaned and canned to standards I trust. Plus I can then control the amount of salt etc.
There also could have been something in a bean that you missed due to where it was cut.
Debbie R. says
Yipes…….
Mel Meister says
Funky!
Diana in TX says
I would say you were right on-something was on the lid or the jar didn’t sterilze properly. In a lot of ways I miss canning, it was always good to have an in house store, Would never go hungry! Once started moving around I ended up freezing most everything. had to be selective about what to can-do need room to store all those jars. When we moved overseas I got rid of all the canning jars etc. I still have my crock for making saurkraut though. Our first move with packers we didn’t know we were moving until early Fall. The guy packing the basement was not happy-I had spent the entire summer canning. He grumbled the whole time he was wrapping jars.
faye says
Ewwww!!!
SharO says
Does this mean you have to pack all of the jars yourself? I was wondering about that. How do you do it?
Michelle says
That is SO scary! The canning instructor at our local extension office keeps a collection of jars like that to use examples in her lectures. I don’t remember anything like that, though!
Nancy says
What a great science experiment!! Would have been super for a biology teacher to show his/her class.
I’ve never canned green beans…. mostly peaches and jams.
Good luck with the move!