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consignment store find: coffee device
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 07:12:23 -0500, wrote:
>On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 03:29:15 GMT, Scott
> wrote:
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>>I'm not personally familiar with *food grade*, heat-resistant plastic
>>jars available on the consumer level.
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>I think there must be some though: we've bought some jam
>recently (Cheap and Nasty Brand) that was in plastic jars,
>also applesauce, also pasta sauce.
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>http://www.usplastic.com has a lot of various food-grade
>plastic containers but whether or not they'd know if they
>are sufficiently heat resistant, I don't know. They
>probably would. A lot of their stuff is laboratory-grade,
>and too expensive for production use.
>
For the more technical people out there, the Nalgene labware website
has a chemical resistance chart:
<http://www.nalgenelabware.com/techdata/chemical/index.asp>
A number of the chemicals they reference are food ingredients, and
they deal with heat and prolonged exposure, as well as every major
plastic resin used.
Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
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