Is it easy to make jam in a saucepan or is it easier to waste £79.99 buying an electric jam maker from Lakeland?

[PhantomOfTheChocolateCake]

I'd like to try making jam. Is there a traditional method that will save me £79.99?

yes, home-made is rarely done from a saving-money point of view. But agree it can be alovely thing to do. I went rasp picking with mum and dds in teh summer, a great day out. Then my mum made jam with them.

Aww. Bonding

Much of the stuff in lakelend is pointless IMHO and just creates clutter.

Like apples corer and slicer things. How often would you ever use those, and wouldn't a good, sharp knife be just as good.

Ditto egg slicers and strawberry hullers

I intend to make huge amounts of bramble jam next year, and then I am going to sell some on the market for £2.50 a jar - which for just sugar and electric and a reused jar and time, profitable.

gimme the jam maker any day!

i agree, though, only worth it if you have a lot of fruit trees.

my mother used to make fig jam from our two trees, which have sadly since died.

we've got a glut of apples of a tree in the garden here, but i can't be arsed with all that sterilising jars and waxed discs and all that faff. wouldn't have a clue how to do that.

so have just made loads of applesauce in the slow cooker to freeze and lots of dried apple rings and apple butter.

agree mb. It is upmarket kleeneze

why do you want to make 'Electric jam?

ROFL

Why?

I don't think I'd make jam myself

Grouchy, Tis an electric jam maker

lol @ 'there's nothing worse than hot food on cold plates'

I beg to differ.

I didn't realise you could eat the tins!

DIM WOMAN "What's this?
MR LAKELAND "It's a purposeless piece of electrically warmed cloth"
DIM WOMAN "wow, that's lovely. Wh-what's it for, again?"
MR LAKELAND "Er, I don't fucking know, a fiver?"
DIME WOMAN "Ohhh I see, I don't think that's exclusive enough for us then, my sister in law might hve one and she works in a shop. Now, that really won't do."
MR LAKELAND "oH sorry, I misread the label, it is in fact £35 quid. er. It's very kitch."
DIM WOMAN "Lovely, lovely, I'll take one - do I need anything else with it?/"
MR LAKELAND "Well normally I'd stick it in a carrier bag for you, but because, as you know, I Saw YOu Coming, I'm going to wrap it in paper, call it gift wrapped, and charge you seven quid for the privilege"
DIM WOMAN "That's fine, can I have a carrier bag to get it to the car?"
MR LAKELAND "No. I'm going to charge you £3.50 for this bit of prisoner stitched dirty cloth instead. It's ecological.
DIM WOMAN "Oh the ecology is very important to me."
MR LAKELAND "Yes, I though it might be. Here's a leaflet for the purpose of advertising more meaningless shite to you, and I'm charging you £1.50 for that too. That'll be £47, please."

to make electric jam with

ROFL! Do you not like Lakeland Colditz?

what about this to cut the bread for the jam sandwich? You'd think it was a knife, but you would be wrong. So wrong

I don't know how I could live without this!

PS.What actually is A SPURTLE?!?!?!?

You don't need a expensive gadget or a sugar thermometer. Boil everything up. It is ready when a drop of the jam forms a firm but squidgy ball when dropped into a glass of cold water (i.e. should'nt disintergrate in the water when squeezed)

Bugger me! £79!!! Sorry for the repeated exclamation marks but I was taken aback.

Big saucepan and therometer works.
Also microwave is very very easy and quick.

Thanks pippi

the spurtle is to keep your porridge from sticking.

Doesn't a wooden spoon do the same thing?

I think egg slicers are great.

Can you not cut an egg with a knife though?

I'd love an egg slicer.

Well of course you can cut an egg with a knife, but not nice and thinly for rolls.

My parents love their avocado huller, Lakeland is fab for buying tat that is so rareified that even they don't already own it.

However still would not spend £79.99 on a jam maker. Will take up jam making when DC leaves home and I retire, at the rate the financial markets are going that should be about 2040.

not the way a spurtle does it, phantom, hence, why the design of the spurtle dates from about 1480.

definitely not something Lakeland made up.

I have a Lakeland apple slicer/corer that my MIL have us. She insisted it was perfect for us as my DS#2 used to like his apples sliced. Yes...apart from the fact that you needed the wrists of ..well someone with very strong wrists, to press it down through the apple. DCs couldn't use it at all. And a knife sort of does it quite well too