On Feb 12, 8:33 pm, hahabogus > wrote:
> "pavane" > wrote :
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> > "Anders J. Aamodt" > wrote in message
> >news:2008021215025316807-admin@andersaamodtname...
> >| On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:37:39 -0800, Raison de
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> >| > glass jars with lids. These let you see the spices, but they let in
> >| > light.
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> >| On 2008-02-12 14:45:56 -0800, Christine Dabney
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> >| > You might try Penzeys.
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> >| >http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penze...nzeysjars.html
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> >| > Christine
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> >| Those are a good price for glass jars. Just how bad is light for
> >| spices? What if I keep them in a cupboard? Although both of my
> >| cupboards are next to the stove...
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> > Light is the Darth Vader of earthly effects on spices. You have
> > two choices: either paint the outside of the clear jars before
> > filling them with herbs (this way you can create a pleasing color
> > scheme to fit your kitchen) or when you buy the herbs spread
> > them on a jelly-roll pan and spray-paint the spices so that
> > the light will not penetrate and deteriorate them. Be sure to
> > let them dry thoroughly before putting them into the jars,
> > which then, of course, need not to be painted. The advantage
> > of this course of action is that you can paint the herbs and
> > spices to match whatever recopies you are contemplating:
> > green for veggies, red for beef, pink for pork and so on, limited
> > only by your imagination and creativity.
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> > pavane
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> Keep spices in dark glass beer bottles...a bent nail can be used to
> produce shaker holes in the beer bottle caps. OH! use emptied beer
> bottles only...think of the fun in collecting the containers especially
> if you avoid American beer bottles
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> The house of the burning beet-Alan
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> It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
> Elbonian Folklore

Cute. How about sealing the holey caps of the beer bottles, Alan?

N.