Creeping curry paste and soy sauce
I am confounded again by curry paste that somehow creeps up the side of the jar, slides through the seal created by the screwed-on lid, and slithers down the side of the jar to form a bright-orange ring of oil at the outside bottom of the jar.
My soy sauce does the same sort of thing; it slides up the inside of the bottle, through the plastic shaker, through the screwed-on lid, and down the outside of the container.
I have never been a kitchen neatnik, but I do make some effort, and these two ingredients seem bound and determined to undermine me. I do not think I am being paranoid about this. What gives?
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7 Comments:
Do you keep them in the refrigerator?
suegsf at 12:17AM on 11/07/09
Have never had this happen. Do you have a lot of temperature variation in your house? Or do you routinely keep these items in the fridge and then leave them outside for a while? I'm wondering if you end up with a pressure differential between caused by the air in the bottle/jar warming up and forcing the contents out.
lemonfair at 4:10AM on 11/07/09
The soy sauce does that when it's not poured cleanly, which is easy to do because to pour cleanly, you have to darn near invert the bottle what with that stupid plastic shaker, and bottle inversion makes your food conspicuously salty. So it adheres to the top and sides of the bottle, and then collects on the inside of the cap when you screw the top back on. After a few uses, the accumulated liquid inside the cap threads (some dried, some not) is squeezed out by the action of replacing the cap, whence it drips down the side of the bottle.
My solution - wipe down the top of the bottle with a wet paper towel before screwing on the cap. And because I refill soy sauce bottles from the giant gallon jugs, I also clean the plastic shaker and cap whenever I do.
shoneyjoe at 7:13AM on 11/07/09
I keep the curry paste in the refrigerator consistently after opening. This has happened to me with a couple of brands. It's just plain weird.
I keep the soy sauce in the cupboard. I have tried rinsing the top of the soy sauce bottle after use, to no avail. Maybe I should wipe it instead - I'll try that.
Likeswords at 12:50PM on 11/07/09
@Likeswords - lol! Great description of the curry paste creeping out of the jar like the Blob.
I have not had this problem with curry paste, but definitely with things like soy sauce and vinegar. My theory is that it collects in the label at the neck of the bottle after it's poured. So I take the label off when I open it now.
yayfood at 2:41PM on 11/07/09
My balsamic vinegar does this. So nice how I then have to unglue it from the surface on which it sits, as it goes "SCLURPHH."
Onepot at 5:53PM on 11/07/09
Clearly, now that we know that vinegar has joined the escape plot, we need to investigate this phenomenon more thoroughly. Are our condiments acting in unison? Is this an evolutionary step toward eventual freedom? Seriously, I really would like to know how the curry paste in particular (no label at the neck, no bits stuck at the top of the jar) morphs to the outside. I will continue to explore, and reveal all once it is discovered.
Likeswords at 8:16PM on 11/07/09