The amount of people agreeing in the comments was concerning. As if the lack of rings was the problem, and not whatever the heck is going on with the onions

by meghera

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  2. alpatter

    Omg I just saw this! I don’t know how it doesn’t occur to people that the food actually went bad because it was improperly processed. Rings are not the thing that seals the jar, but it will potentially keep a lid that has popped up sealed.

    P.S. I think they’re apples but still. I don’t know how someone messes up that badly 🤨

  3. always-paranoid

    don’t worry just cook the onions and they will be perfectly safe to eat /s

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    (and yes someone told me something like this once about a jar that didn’t seal and was left on a shelf for 5 years)

  4. TheWoman2

    The scary thing is that the lesson learned was to never take the rings off. I wonder if the pressure could build up enough to make the jar explode.

  5. RideThatBridge

    I mean-I’m a not very experience canner AT ALL-and I know it ain’t about the rings, lol. Scary stuff

  6. AngryCustomerService

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but if this happens then they weren’t sealed correctly and leaving the rings on would create a false seal. Right?

  7. Altruistic_Focus_835

    Nit leaving the rings on wasn’t the problem . If you had left the rings on the jars would have eventually broken . Your issue was in the process some where .

  8. Spiffy313

    All the revolting and scary reality of this post aside, do most of you take the rings off after the process to prevent the illusion of a false seal? I have a friend who always removes the ring after the process, wondering if that’s a common practice.

  9. This type of post is **exactly** why I left that FB group.

  10. darkpheonix262

    That’s Facebook for ya, a cesspool of bullshit and misinformation

  11. Noone-2023

    my hubby criticize me for keeping everything so clean and organized while canning, He had not idea how deadly mistakes can be

  12. Eric099998

    I bet this was from the notorious oven canners. The onions wouldn’t be that stiff if pressure canned

  13. I’m having trouble figuring out what they canned because the contents and foam do not look appetizing.

    If I’m understanding it correctly, they’ve been using an unsafe practice for years or decades and the only thing keeping the jars from doing this is bands holding the spoilage in place.

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