To think that I might kill someone?

[Maggiethecat]

Sooo, Xmas cakes are in the oven. Feeling quite pleased with myself and tackling the washing up only to find that the Kilner jar that the wine soaked fruit were in has a 3” hole!

This was only evident when it was taking a long time to fill the jar, to give it a soak then wash. I lifted it up and turned it round to find water running out.

I’ve found what looks about half of the missing piece of glass but wonder if the rest is in the cake?!

Am I likely to bump someone off with a slice of xmas cake? 🤔

I love it too! @NunsKnickers

Buy an x-ray device in black Friday deal

I would not want to serve this .Its just not worth the risk,maybe just decide thats that ,turn off oven and maybe do a shop for more fruit /butter and so on.Discard this one and think of it as a story for life! These things happen

@Catsfrontbum it could possibly still have glass in it!

I know you probably want us to tell you that it’s ok to serve, but it’s not. You know that you have to throw those cakes away and start again.

You could kill someone if you serve cake with a tiny amount of glass shards in, yes.

How on earth did you not notice when the jar broke?!

I would bin it and start again. Annoying and expensive but safe.

Very annoying but the cake has to go OP.

Had a similar situation with my dinner a while ago.

Made a lovely stir-fry, had it served and waiting on the kitchen worktop to be eaten.

Can't for the life of me remember why I opened the cupboard above, must have needed something, but I knocked a small glass onto the worktop not far from my food. Small glass smashed, obviously, and bits went everywhere.

I'm pretty certain - 95% certain - that nothing went into my food but I wasn't prepared to risk it. Threw the whole lot in the bin and had a sandwich for dinner.

Oh. I thought you were rooting for potential victims.

I had a few nominations.

Never mind.

@HarpieDuJour - I was thinking about that and I did notice a wine stain on the counter where the jar was before using the fruit and wonder if there had been a crack. But maybe the hole only developed in the washing up?

surely I would have had wine/fruit leaking out when handling the jar if the 3” hole was there before?

Maybe, but you wouldn't have your jigsaw pieces missing, would you? They'd all be in your washing up bowl. Unless you wash directly in the sink and had the plug hole open. Either way, it's a risk you can't take.

I wasn’t sure which vote meant which message so I think I’ve voted yabu - but I’d say DONT serve it!! Or if you do, are you willing to be upfront with those who eat it that there may be glass in it? A

It'll still have glass shards in it....or glass sand if you smash it up.

Mmmm. Crunchy.

No not glass, it could perforate their insides, v serious.

I am saying this as someone that has literally wiped a dropped lasagna of the floor and served it, to unsuspecting family.

That’s the point - I had no clue the jar had broken until I was doing the washing up and wondered why it wouldn’t fill.

can only think that it got smashed against the kitchen tiles on the wall along where it was kept. It may have cracked it but not developed the hole otherwise my fruit would have seeped out? Hole developed in the washing?

The problem is, if there had only been a crack, there still may have been tiny bits of glass inside the jar from the crack. The lump came out afterwards, but the tiny bits will be in the contents.

You can't use that cake , for piece of mind as well as a ' just in case ' scenario.
TBH I wouldn't even bother carrying on baking it. Get it out of the oven and bin.
Go buy new ingredients .

Think it’s going to be a mince pie Xmas!

OP, you’re trying to convince yourself and us that the cake will be okay to serve, but we’re not buying it. Throw it in the bin and go out to buy a nice, glass free cake.

Wait a minute. If the fruit was still covered in wine when you got it out of the jar then surely the jar got broken after it was empty? Like when you put it in the sink? Otherwise the wine would have been pouring out of the side, earlier?

This sounds like you're trying to talk yourself round to justifying serving it. Don't. Just don't.

You don't know for sure when it cracked and there is a very real likelihood of small shards of glass in the cakes. You can't risk it.

I'm sorry for your wasted effort and money but it's too dangerous to eat.

Oh okay I’ve just read your update that there was a leak before. Bollocks. That means there is a risk.

Trying to learn a lesson here; wouldn’t have thought a kilner jar would shatter easily so can only think it must have got a hard knock somehow.

as she sings hard knock life….

Almost every year my now late Mother would make the Christmas cake then worry it wasn't fully cooked. She would cut it in half then realise it was perfectly cooked but still make another one because she had cut the first one! I did suggest one year that if she put the two halves together, cover with marzipan and icing but she wouldn't consider it.

I am fairly clumsy, but I have broken a lot of Kilner jars when I held them under hot running water. See also demijohns, decanters and vases...

To be honest though, I would probably still bin the cakes.