Re: [CH] Food Safety Question

Styx (styx@gwi.net)
Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:52:48 -0400

Tom, if your still lurking?
I was thinking about this off & on: One of the first things that struck 
me was you might get that rubber taste, and also if you wanted to see if 
it changes anything you could try dumping some powder into or on 
something hot enough to melt the rubber. I'm not sure if that would work 
to see if the rubber came together at a melting point, but at what 
temperature would it start to melt? Might be to hot or hotter than what 
you'd heat any of your food too. This was only a thought as I agree with 
most of the others that it should be safe.

Tom D Compton wrote:

Here is a question for all the experts out there. I usually just lurk
and learn, but this time I need some real help.

I screw a canning jar onto my blender blade assembly and grind the
peppers right in the container. As the volume decreases, I keep adding
dried peppers till all is ground and the jar is full. This year, almost
at the end, when I unscrewed the blade to add a few more peppers, I found
about a one inch chunk of the (rubber?) gasket missing.
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Have A Good One
Styx  >:o)>