Okay. So, I didn’t have a large enough jar to fit all my ingredients, so i was like I have this pickle jar. Mind you I’m pretty new to fermentation but I’ve read a shit ton of cookbooks. I thought, this will work. I get my brine and load everything up, brine it up, and then a split second before it’s too late, realize the glass fermentation weight is exactly the same size as the mouth of this cheap jar. By that point it was too late and stuck.

So i was left with two options, let it be stuck or use the handle of my knife to gently tampen it into the jar. I did the latter.

Sooooo now I’m thinking I’m going to try to move the weight to the side and remove the contents when it’s done, and break the cheap jar to get the expensive weight.

What do you think?

edit: UPDATE: I couldn’t get it out, su I placed the jar in a paper bag and tapped just once with a hammer and retrieved the weight. Then I placed the paper bag in a box, taped it up and wide tipped sharpied GLASS on all sides. (It’s what my city waste disposal recommends to do with sharp broken glass from residential). The ferment is okay and so is the weight.

Okay. So, I didn’t have a large enough jar to fit all my ingredients, so i was like I have this pickle jar. Mind you I’m pretty new to fermentation but I’ve read a shit ton of cookbooks. I thought, this will work. I get my brine and load everything up, brine it up, and then a split second before it’s too late, realize the glass fermentation weight is exactly the same size as the mouth of this cheap jar. By that point it was too late and stuck.

So i was left with two options, let it be stuck or use the handle of my knife to gently tampen it into the jar. I did the latter.

Sooooo now I’m thinking I’m going to try to move the weight to the side and remove the contents when it’s done, and break the cheap jar to get the expensive weight.

What do you think?

edit: UPDATE: I couldn’t get it out, su I placed the jar in a paper bag and tapped just once with a hammer and retrieved the weight. Then I placed the paper bag in a box, taped it up and wide tipped sharpied GLASS on all sides. (It’s what my city waste disposal recommends to do with sharp broken glass from residential). The ferment is okay and so is the weight.

If you do decide to break the jar, make sure to score the glass so you get a clean(er) break.

Even better is to use the burning thread trick. You’ll get a clean break in two pieces with minimal shards.

1. Wrap the string around the jar several times before tying it off.
2. Slip the string off of the jar and soak it in acetone or nail polish remover. When it is saturated, slide it back around the jar and position it exactly where you want the glass to be cut.
3. Use pliers to hold the jar while you ignite the string with a lighter. The flame will spread more evenly if you rotate the jar as the string burns.
4. When the flame is about to burn out, dunk the jar into a bucket of extremely cold water. The glass should crack evenly along the string leaving an open end to the jar.

RIP jar, contents look tasty tho.

If you do decide to break the jar, make sure to score the glass so you get a clean(er) break.

Even better is to use the burning thread trick. You’ll get a clean break in two pieces with minimal shards.

1. Wrap the string around the jar several times before tying it off.
2. Slip the string off of the jar and soak it in acetone or nail polish remover. When it is saturated, slide it back around the jar and position it exactly where you want the glass to be cut.
3. Use pliers to hold the jar while you ignite the string with a lighter. The flame will spread more evenly if you rotate the jar as the string burns.
4. When the flame is about to burn out, dunk the jar into a bucket of extremely cold water. The glass should crack evenly along the string leaving an open end to the jar.

What kind of string?

Even better is to use the burning thread trick. You’ll get a clean break in two pieces with minimal shards.

1. Wrap the string around the jar several times before tying it off.
2. Slip the string off of the jar and soak it in acetone or nail polish remover. When it is saturated, slide it back around the jar and position it exactly where you want the glass to be cut.
3. Use pliers to hold the jar while you ignite the string with a lighter. The flame will spread more evenly if you rotate the jar as the string burns.
4. When the flame is about to burn out, dunk the jar into a bucket of extremely cold water. The glass should crack evenly along the string leaving an open end to the jar.

Never heard of this trick , but I’d imagine the contents of the jar would get dunked.

I have a diamond tipped drill bit that I use to drill holes in pots. While not the correct tool, at all, I wonder if it could work. Edit: no drill, that would be psycho. Lol

Okay. So, I didn’t have a large enough jar to fit all my ingredients, so i was like I have this pickle jar. Mind you I’m pretty new to fermentation but I’ve read a shit ton of cookbooks. I thought, this will work. I get my brine and load everything up, brine it up, and then a split second before it’s too late, realize the glass fermentation weight is exactly the same size as the mouth of this cheap jar. By that point it was too late and stuck.

So i was left with two options, let it be stuck or use the handle of my knife to gently tampen it into the jar. I did the latter.

Sooooo now I’m thinking I’m going to try to move the weight to the side and remove the contents when it’s done, and break the cheap jar to get the expensive weight.

What do you think?

edit: UPDATE: I couldn’t get it out, su I placed the jar in a paper bag and tapped just once with a hammer and retrieved the weight. Then I placed the paper bag in a box, taped it up and wide tipped sharpied GLASS on all sides. (It’s what my city waste disposal recommends to do with sharp broken glass from residential). The ferment is okay and so is the weight.

Why not just heat the rim of the jar, and then try to pull the weight out? Put some ice on the weight while heating the glass to reduce the amount the weight heats up, and then carefully pull the weight off.

You do it with an empty jar. A full jar will soak up the heat and might not break properly.

What kind of string?

If you do decide to break the jar, make sure to score the glass so you get a clean(er) break.

Okay. So, I didn’t have a large enough jar to fit all my ingredients, so i was like I have this pickle jar. Mind you I’m pretty new to fermentation but I’ve read a shit ton of cookbooks. I thought, this will work. I get my brine and load everything up, brine it up, and then a split second before it’s too late, realize the glass fermentation weight is exactly the same size as the mouth of this cheap jar. By that point it was too late and stuck.

So i was left with two options, let it be stuck or use the handle of my knife to gently tampen it into the jar. I did the latter.

Sooooo now I’m thinking I’m going to try to move the weight to the side and remove the contents when it’s done, and break the cheap jar to get the expensive weight.

What do you think?

edit: UPDATE: I couldn’t get it out, su I placed the jar in a paper bag and tapped just once with a hammer and retrieved the weight. Then I placed the paper bag in a box, taped it up and wide tipped sharpied GLASS on all sides. (It’s what my city waste disposal recommends to do with sharp broken glass from residential). The ferment is okay and so is the weight.

As it pickles, the contents will likely get a little softer, and the weight might drop down into the larger portion of the jar. If that happens, you’ll be able to rotate it out of the way, and get all your stuff out of the jar. Then you can actually stick your hand in and grab the weight and try to pull it out perpendicular to the opening. Odds are that the weight (and the jar opening) are not perfectly circular, so you can try rotating both to pull it out.

Borosilicate glass (which this probably is?) has low thermal expansion, so heat probably won’t help.

Okay. So, I didn’t have a large enough jar to fit all my ingredients, so i was like I have this pickle jar. Mind you I’m pretty new to fermentation but I’ve read a shit ton of cookbooks. I thought, this will work. I get my brine and load everything up, brine it up, and then a split second before it’s too late, realize the glass fermentation weight is exactly the same size as the mouth of this cheap jar. By that point it was too late and stuck.

So i was left with two options, let it be stuck or use the handle of my knife to gently tampen it into the jar. I did the latter.

Sooooo now I’m thinking I’m going to try to move the weight to the side and remove the contents when it’s done, and break the cheap jar to get the expensive weight.

What do you think?

edit: UPDATE: I couldn’t get it out, su I placed the jar in a paper bag and tapped just once with a hammer and retrieved the weight. Then I placed the paper bag in a box, taped it up and wide tipped sharpied GLASS on all sides. (It’s what my city waste disposal recommends to do with sharp broken glass from residential). The ferment is okay and so is the weight.