We’ve had a few people try to post it, and the auto bot doesn’t allow videos here (for various reasons).
We’ve had a couple people try to circumvent the auto bot or cross-post and we need to shut that down too.
But there is a lot of curiosity, and we should at least talk about it.
Despite the video title: It’s not the pressure canner. We can clearly see the woman has the lid off the pot. We don’t even know for sure if she was water bath or pressure canning.
We do not know for certain it wasn’t staged. I don’t anyone who has wide lens cameras set up on the ceiling of their kitchens. I know a lot of people. The handful of people who I do know that can afford whole house security systems are also savvy enough to not post their lives online.
Assuming it wasn’t staged, she’s placing a hot jar on a metal surface. It’s summertime in North America. Most folks are running ice cold AC 24/7. I can’t imagine that tray isn’t frigid. We are seeing jar shock in action.
I am not convinced that is a canning jar and not an upcycled commercial jar.
Thermal shock is relatively easy to avoid. Use a rack. Place a dry towel down on the countertop. Use a polyurethane or wooden cutting board. Make sure to obey cooldown instructions.
Lastly – have some sympathy and patience for a woman who likely has no clue about how many people have seen her in her kitchen time of embarrassment.
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As soon as I saw this video for the first time I said…oof that must have been a cold pan.
My grandmother warned me about this, my mother has warned me about this.
Towel on the counter..the end
The video quality is like from America’s Funniest Home Videos circa 1993. The sound is also weird. Like, you’re expecting a laugh track to follow?
It’s definitely a security camera. There are lots of videos online of lower income people with indoor cameras. I don’t think they posted “their lives online”, they just posted an incident that occurred.
Real or not, I am just glad that her hip did not snap, that was one nasty fall.
My suspicion when I first saw it, and that’s really all we can say, is that it was a combo of thermal shock and a re-used non-canning specific jar.
At the end of the day, I hope the woman is okay and that the rest of us in the canning community remember why we have processes and systems in place. To prevent injury and illness of ourselves and others.
I remember when I started canning years ago, I took my hot jars out of the water bath and placed them on the counter. Within a minute you could hear the glass splitting and several shattered. DUH, I had my freaking window AC BLASTING!!! the hot jars with freezing cold air. I didn’t even consider it!
Does the jar look a little too full? Especially with something like tomatoes?
Ya thermal shock in my opinion, possibly worsened by a non canning specific jar. Once way back before I was canning and knew anything about thermal shock I liked to keep my mason jar in the fridge (sweet tea). Many times I would pull it from the fridge, finish it then pour hot (not boiling) water in to it, steep new tea, so on so forth. Well one day I pulled it and poured in my hot water and probably 20+ cracks shot up the sides, immediately. It didn’t explode but started leaking terribly and very clearly had severe damage. That’s how I first learned about thermal shock. Now I have a wooden cutting board with a nice thick towel over it to sit everything.
Definitely not staged. Who would agree to that?