Cost-benefit and cooking

[fraeuleinchen]

After being in Colorado for six days and being so disconnected there (internet access but no cell phone service; it was also difficult because we were fairly busy, and because of ergonomic limitations mounting as days passed and my neck and upper back started to suffer) I am finding it challenging to stay away from the computer, even though I know

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Cost-benefit and cooking

[anonymous]

My wife and I love Wait Wait as well! We're usually listening now on the podcast as well as my now weekly jumble of NPR podcasts to listen at work. I hope you'll be feeling better in the next few days despite the body pain and the forecasted high temperature.

Josh from Clark

[stickcow]

It was nice seeing you today.

I think canning might be less time consuming if you do it while doing other things in the kitchen at the same time. I recently picked up some freezer jam jars, so I can make jams but not have to seal them, since we have a big deep freeze now. Too bad those jars don't come in larger sizes.

[fraeuleinchen]

Nice to see you, too!

I have heard about the freezer jars, and they sound like a good solution... a massive simplification by cutting out the whole preserving-for-posterity canning step (not that making the jam is always an easy task).

I really wish I lived near some wild berry bushes, though, so I could harvest in the wild and make jam to last throughout the year. In the Northeast (where I grew up - hey, like you!) wild fruit seemed easier to just stumble across.