De-Stinking Your Jar for Re-Use - Tip of the Day

by Monika Bartyzel (Subscribe to Monika Bartyzel's posts)
Posted Jun 17th 2009 9:00AM
Filed under: Tip of the Day

There's no better way to house your dry goods -- and be nice to the environment -- than reusing old jars. But what do you do when stinky scents linger inside?

Photo: salimfadhley/Flickr

Pickles, spaghetti sauce ... there are tons of foods whose scent lingers in the jar well after a good cleaning. So how do you beat the stink?

As many Web sites and home cooks suggest, one of the easiest ways to get rid of bad smells is to crumple up some newspaper and let it rest inside the container for a few days. The paper should soak up all those unwanted odors and leave you with a fresh and primed storage vessel.

Bonus: The technique also works on plastic! So they can take back what they say about yesterday's news.

Tags: newspaper, smelly jars, SmellyJars

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6-17-2009 @ 2:14PM

cmhclaudia said...

I tried that once and it did not work for me. Possibly the smell from the pickles was too tough to get rid of.

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