Canned food.

Did you know that before it is packed with cans of food preservation using the bottle as a container?

Food preservation is now more often found packed cans. Imagine if preserved foods packaged in bottles?

Food preservation was first circulated in dry form and has existed since 12,000 years BC according to the National Center for Home Food Preservation.

Before the year 1800, the American colonies drying, roasting, marinate, or acidify whatever food they produce, unfortunately, these processes do not always succeed.

Bottles as containers of food preservation

Preserved foods tend to feel strange, however, to acidify foods taste better though not always reliable, depending on what foods are acidified. For example, pickled mussels can not survive a week.

Food preservation problems gotten worse in times of war struck. Malnutrition military attack by desperate leaders. In 1795, Napoleon offered a reward of 12,000 francs to anyone who could provide effective solutions in food preservation to supply troops far from home.

This prize was won in 1810 by Nicolas Appert, a national multi-talented Paris, confectioner and wine, cook, brewer and maker of pickles, which resemble to cook food in a glass bottle, close the bottle with the cork, wire , and sealing wax, then boil the bottle for 12 hours or more in the water.

The process of food preservation by heat by Appert called "appertisasi" which later spread to America in 1820, but only popular in the time of the Civil War. Supporting factors such popularity is the creation of a better jar.

Wide-mouthed jars and jars of Lightning

In 1858, John Landis Mason patented wide-mouthed jar with a screw lid of zinc. Jar option is more suitable for kitchen purposes rather than cap bottles cork, wire, and wax created by Appert.

In 1882, the jars innovations made simpler. Lightning jar, by businessman Henry Putnam of Bennington, Vermont. Lightning jar has a glass lid that is attached to the wire clamp. Because of these creations, Putnam and his descendants became wealthy.

Edward Everett, stepson, began his career peddling for the Lightning jar stepfather and created what we now call a beer bottle. This creation makes rich Everett, until he got the nickname "King of the Bottle".
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DatePublished: October 12, 2014 at 20:18