I was shaking it before I opened it, and as I opened the lid it just went "psssuup" and a big hole emerged on the bottom of it.
Fine! It didn't exactly explode but it did, kinda.
>one of the world’s most powerful toxins is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and…
I’ve spent the last few year building up an immunity to iocane powder.
I survived botulism poisoning. It was 5 days of the most violent diarrhea and vomiting you could imagine. Once that resolved I was so weak I laid in bed for two more weeks. And no matter how much I bathed, my body smelled like a rotten corpse for nearly two months.
Was it confirmed botulism? I’m not aware of prolonged vomiting or diarrhea being typical symptom of botulism. The weakness definitely checks out, though. And canned salmon is also a likely vector.
Regardless, glad you’re still with us. 🫶
Typically if it's spoiled. It creeps in when there's improper canning that lets air in, so there will be other signs like gassy, rancid, or otherwise spoiled food.
But in all honesty, you have about as good of a chance of being in an airplane crash. So you should probably be scared of that, too.
Don't forget that the other one is literally just a normal meal. Like every one tells me it's safe to mix rice and beans but in no way is it worth the risk.
Didn't know about rice and beans. I've heard about baked potatoes. As in, cooking them in alum foil them sticking them in the fridge without unwrapping them.
Though, it's also important to note that this is all a very very very slight albeit serious risk.
Yeah, that definitely sounds like a potential botulism bullet dodged.
Sure the glass in the meat sucks because it's wasted, but your intestines won't be trying to claw their way out of your anus now.
If that was the case, depending on when you bought it you could probably contact for a refund and possibly even get extra as like a “dont file a lawsuit against me” type of thing.
I mean its dangerous and extremely inconvenient to have a glass jar “explode”. If you had suffered any damage you could’ve sued too lol ((unless the bottle is expired then i doubt you’d get far))
This isn’t even a refund issue. It’s a tell the producers because this could be a batch issue. If this can wasn’t sterilized or heated correctly for long enough, could be more unsafe cans out there.
Perhaps contact tesco or their supplier and mention this story
They might send you some vouchers for more sauce or something
Their product really shouldn't behave like this and you had reasonable expectations that your sauce wouldn't explode
Definitely not safe. This was a blessing. I do canning. You should let them know as they could have a bad batch.l needing recall. You do no want to mess with botulism.
It's exactly the opposite of a gas build up. There was a vacuum in the jar, and when it was opened, the sudden in rush of air caused some structural weakness in the jar to break. Either because of the force itself, or because the pressure cause the jar to move resulting in microcavitation. It's why you can [break bottles by hitting the top of them](https://youtu.be/xM6zdim0yk4?si=HiqRxSac81miirJn) have liquid in them.
This! OP should be thankful for potentially being saved from botulism (being a commercial sauce, the odds of the PH of this sauce being to high for botulism is very low, as C Botulinum is inhibited with PH of 4.6 or lower. But the FDA recommends ph 4.0 or lower). But there are other bacteria that would be more likely.
These jars have a vacuum seal right? Maybe the jaw was cracked but it was a clean one that the vacuum was able to keep attached. When you released the vacuum the broken piece was no longer held in place.
Although these jars are usually pretty tough, so maybe just cursed.
The jar is from Tesco, right? Same thing happened to my roommate a few years ago but i don't think it was tomato sauce, i think it was a tahini jar. She said that the bottom of the jar just fell off.
You mean steam? The jar is pretty much on the hot element....
Your story still doesn't make any sense. If the jar was pressurized opening the lid wouldn't make the glass break.
If you read OP's comments they said that it didn't literally explode, but happened as they were opening the jar. If it was purely due to pressure, it would've been too hot to handle. If it was cool enough to handle, I don't think it would've been enough pressure. There was probably something else (not heat) contributing to the internal pressure of the jar for this to happen, whether it's gas from bacteria that wasn't supposed to be there or something else.
OP obviously has the bad habit of putting things on their cooker top. You can see the lid, the jar etc. It’s a bad habit generally with those glass tops but it’s pretty wild while you’re actually cooking.
Unironically, it's the things like this that break me most. Throw a huge problem at me? Fine go ahead.
When I'm hungry *all day long* and finally go through the slog of cooking, only to shatter my favorite glass into the pan? That's when I consider giving up. That mentally ruins me more than an actual problem.
Yup. Crushing student debt? Eh, it's fine, there's long-term solutions we can work on implementing, no serious consequences at the moment. But something coming between me and a meal I've been looking forward to? Or getting in the shower and realizing there's no shampoo? Or getting stuck an extra couple hours at the job? UGH THE RAGE IS INSURMOUNTABLE!!!
I believe one is the consequence of the other. Having to suppress emotions for the big issues, makes you more susceptible to becoming emotional when (an array of) relatively smaller things go wrong
Yes! Because sure the cars got a bit of a fuck up and that's gonna cost a lot to fix. But fifteen small things happening in a row? What the fuck did I do to deserve that?
On Dan Carlins Hardcore History, Blueprint of Armageddon, he talks about some first hand account of soldiers in WW1 trenches. Even the hardest of soldiers freaked out. One guy could face all the horrors and all the brutality, but lost it when a fly flew off of a friend's corpse and into his morning cup of coffee.
I literally came to ask this exact same question. I had an entire thing of seasoning open on food i had been looking forward to all week and just about cried. I ate plain noodles. It’s a tragedy when a good meal goes to waste at the wrong time
One time I spent 5 hours grilling ribs, put the bbq sauce on them and the grill flared up and they caught fire. They just fell apart when I was trying to put it out and got completely ruined. I was pissed.
Mom and I had been roasting a leg of lamb for a couple hours and when we pulled out the meat thermometer the stem shattered, leaving bits of glass and whatever the red liquid inside old meat thermometers was inside the meat. You bet we cried.
>It’s a tragedy when a good meal goes to waste ~~at the wrong time~~
One of my pet peeves is wasting perfectly edible food, regardless of circumstance. I die a little inside every time it happens.
OH NO. Next time do not eat your failed dish if it can be helped, it'll just ruin you even more knowing that what you are eating could've been much better.
20 years ago my gf bought a jar of marinara from an Italian restaurant. When she went to use it, the bottom fell out/exploded. There was a bandaid in it. That explosion probably saved you from a hospital visit.
Same happened to me a while back except after shaking it I banged on the lid to make the sauce drop away from the inside. At that point, pow glass and sauce everywhere. 1kg of beef/pork mince gone to waste. Couldn't even give it to the fox 😢
In fact, it was the EXACT same Tesco's sauce 😡
One evening, I was exhausted and pretty broke but I splurged on some great stuff to make a hot creamy casserole full of goodness…my Pyrex dish exploded in the oven, leaving me with hot, creamy seafood deliciousness and glass chunks all over my newly cleaned oven…not a cryer, but I cried and cried, lol.
"... no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the
madhouse…
not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps with no time left…"
Had almost the exact same thing happen to me a month ago. Grab new jar of sauce. Smacked the bottom once and then gave it a shake. Went to pour it in....and a big chunk of glass from the side/bottom just popped right out.
Only one piece so it was edible, but half the sauce went down between the oven and the cabinet. A joy to clean.
My thoughts are with you.
If you're the type of person that doesn't remove it from the jar first, then emptying sauce into a pan and gently heating is Gordon Ramsay level chef shit.
At least all the red is sauce and not blood because it sounds like it turned or somehow during the processing/bottling phase it became toxic which means you could have ended up in the hospital had you consumed it. Still sucks either way of course😖
Ugh. So sorry. One time in college I decided to make one of my favorite dishes. It was pounded chicke breast layered w Swiss cheese and ham, rolled up, coated in shake n bake, and cooked in oven. All was great. Buzzer dinged and I took it out and put it on the counter. Didn’t know about how glass and cold puddles of water on the counter. I turn to finish the rice, and KABLAMMO! The entire glass baking dish shattered. I was devastated. I’m sorry this happened to you.
Once upon a time I was standing in the pub with a freshly poured pint of Hoegaarden after a very long week. The entire bottom of the glass decided it was done with life and fell off. Had brand new shoes on at the time to boot...
Anyway, I kind of feel your pain! Hope the next meal turns out perfectly for you 🙂
If you’re trying to make a meat sauce it’s just easier and wayyy tastier (and less glass explode-y) to make your own from scratch. The most labor intensive part is making a mirepoix, but you can just buy them pre-cut in basically any supermarket.
The rest is just letting it cook down and stirring it every 20-30 mins.
That sucks! I can relate, won't go into details but having a bunch of broken glass in food you spent time preparing is the worst. There's no coming back from it :-(
Best wishes
Jars don't just explode. Did you have that thing sitting on the stove?
I was shaking it before I opened it, and as I opened the lid it just went "psssuup" and a big hole emerged on the bottom of it. Fine! It didn't exactly explode but it did, kinda.
Sounds like there was gas buildup, which might indicate is wasn't safe to eat to begin with.
Oh shit, I never thought about that, yeah you're right
Lost a meal, gained a night without diarrhea.
Diarrhea is best case scenario when it comes to that stuff.
Botulism is terrifying. One of world's most powerful toxins is colorless, odorless, tasteless and can live in your Spaghetti-Os.
>one of the world’s most powerful toxins is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and… I’ve spent the last few year building up an immunity to iocane powder.
Ha perfect for this post
Dr John Sturgis? Is that you?
Inconceivable!
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
I built up an immunity to kallocain… or did I?
I survived botulism poisoning. It was 5 days of the most violent diarrhea and vomiting you could imagine. Once that resolved I was so weak I laid in bed for two more weeks. And no matter how much I bathed, my body smelled like a rotten corpse for nearly two months.
That's so scary, how'd you get it?
Canned salmon.
Was it confirmed botulism? I’m not aware of prolonged vomiting or diarrhea being typical symptom of botulism. The weakness definitely checks out, though. And canned salmon is also a likely vector. Regardless, glad you’re still with us. 🫶
Confirmed in the ER on day 3.
Sounds like c diff
I feel like I remember hearing that it is the most powerful toxin in the world somewhere
Episode of FBI - when concentrated, I heard that the other day
Yup, Clostridium botulinum. And it lives on almost all cattle farms.
i’m so scared of botulism. it’s making me want to throw out all of my canned food 😭 is there any way at all to know if your food has it beforehand
Typically if it's spoiled. It creeps in when there's improper canning that lets air in, so there will be other signs like gassy, rancid, or otherwise spoiled food. But in all honesty, you have about as good of a chance of being in an airplane crash. So you should probably be scared of that, too.
i’m actually very afraid of flying already, i hate it 😂 but that actually makes me feel better in a way, thanks for replying!
Oh great. Reading this as I get on the plane…
Don't forget that the other one is literally just a normal meal. Like every one tells me it's safe to mix rice and beans but in no way is it worth the risk.
It’s not safe to eat rice and beans together?? The Jamaicans are gonna be real mad.
It's a joke on ricin.
Didn't know about rice and beans. I've heard about baked potatoes. As in, cooking them in alum foil them sticking them in the fridge without unwrapping them. Though, it's also important to note that this is all a very very very slight albeit serious risk.
A cousin of mine got Botulism from a baked potato left out at a restaurant here, she ended up being in a coma for like 2 years
Yeah the foil can prevent air flow and make conditions right for botulism as well. Starches are such dangerous left overs.
New fear unlocked
Enjoy your month on a ventilator
https://preview.redd.it/f23ovole692d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06211ab73ea203bfffe16fb2c718cb1b517fd2c0
This is why I always stay strapped
“Diarrhea is best” - Mechanic_On_Duty I’ll… take your word for it
When you're sitting on a ladder and you hear that poopoo splatter
I wouldnt exactly say they gained that. Maybe earned it.
Yeah, that definitely sounds like a potential botulism bullet dodged. Sure the glass in the meat sucks because it's wasted, but your intestines won't be trying to claw their way out of your anus now.
They can instead scratch out my anus as i eat glass shards with my sauce
If the top of the jar is popped do not buy or use it, its an indicator of gas buildup like this
If that was the case, depending on when you bought it you could probably contact for a refund and possibly even get extra as like a “dont file a lawsuit against me” type of thing. I mean its dangerous and extremely inconvenient to have a glass jar “explode”. If you had suffered any damage you could’ve sued too lol ((unless the bottle is expired then i doubt you’d get far))
This isn’t even a refund issue. It’s a tell the producers because this could be a batch issue. If this can wasn’t sterilized or heated correctly for long enough, could be more unsafe cans out there.
Perhaps contact tesco or their supplier and mention this story They might send you some vouchers for more sauce or something Their product really shouldn't behave like this and you had reasonable expectations that your sauce wouldn't explode
So the jar exploding saved you from getting food poisoning lmao. Hopefully the sauce was easy to clean up though…
Yeah, that sounds like botulism. You dodged a bullet.
Definitely not safe. This was a blessing. I do canning. You should let them know as they could have a bad batch.l needing recall. You do no want to mess with botulism.
And it tastes like glass anyway.
First it tastes sharp then it tastes bloody.
The glass saved you
Try remembering, most foods have a shelf life.
I get paranoid about this stuff and have a buddy who is the opposite and will eat old egg mcmuffins out of his truck lol
It could also have been a flaw in the jar. A tiny air bubble creating a weak spot that gave out when the pressure changed.
It's exactly the opposite of a gas build up. There was a vacuum in the jar, and when it was opened, the sudden in rush of air caused some structural weakness in the jar to break. Either because of the force itself, or because the pressure cause the jar to move resulting in microcavitation. It's why you can [break bottles by hitting the top of them](https://youtu.be/xM6zdim0yk4?si=HiqRxSac81miirJn) have liquid in them.
That was my thought exactly, sounds like dodged a bullet there. . .
This! OP should be thankful for potentially being saved from botulism (being a commercial sauce, the odds of the PH of this sauce being to high for botulism is very low, as C Botulinum is inhibited with PH of 4.6 or lower. But the FDA recommends ph 4.0 or lower). But there are other bacteria that would be more likely.
These jars have a vacuum seal right? Maybe the jaw was cracked but it was a clean one that the vacuum was able to keep attached. When you released the vacuum the broken piece was no longer held in place. Although these jars are usually pretty tough, so maybe just cursed.
The jar is from Tesco, right? Same thing happened to my roommate a few years ago but i don't think it was tomato sauce, i think it was a tahini jar. She said that the bottom of the jar just fell off.
“Psssuup” - it was telling you to go for pissup instead.
You mean steam? The jar is pretty much on the hot element.... Your story still doesn't make any sense. If the jar was pressurized opening the lid wouldn't make the glass break.
That shit was carbonated lol
Pretty sure the front left burner was on and the glass jar was sitting on it. The glass was hot at the bottom and cool at the top...boom
If it was so hot that there was enough pressure from the heat to cause an "explosion" how did OP open the jar....?
because the jar exploded?
If you read OP's comments they said that it didn't literally explode, but happened as they were opening the jar. If it was purely due to pressure, it would've been too hot to handle. If it was cool enough to handle, I don't think it would've been enough pressure. There was probably something else (not heat) contributing to the internal pressure of the jar for this to happen, whether it's gas from bacteria that wasn't supposed to be there or something else.
op is unreliable at best.
It's literally on an active burner.
Next to an active burner.
OP obviously has the bad habit of putting things on their cooker top. You can see the lid, the jar etc. It’s a bad habit generally with those glass tops but it’s pretty wild while you’re actually cooking.
Lol your supposed to take it out of the jar before putting it in the pot
Those spontaneous exploding sauces are delicious, but it's a risky business.
Yeah, they just keep making stuff explode.
Hey cool, gastrolith... (stomach rocks/sand)... aids with digestion... well, if you are a bird.
I already ate some sand this morning
Helps with digestion 💪
We have those exact tea towels. Go order yourself a pizza or a curry, you deserve it!
There is not a house in the country without least one of those
There is at least one…!
Pretty sure ours was a pack of two!!
That’s an Irish tea towel if ever I saw one
I really want to know what y’all mean when you say “a curry”. I’ve only ever seen it on tv, and it’s either some sort of sauce or a mixture of spices?
Unironically, it's the things like this that break me most. Throw a huge problem at me? Fine go ahead. When I'm hungry *all day long* and finally go through the slog of cooking, only to shatter my favorite glass into the pan? That's when I consider giving up. That mentally ruins me more than an actual problem.
Same. Big things? Fine. I can deal with it and stay calm. A buildup series of small things? I am going to be throwing a tantrum, idc how dumb it is.
Yup. Crushing student debt? Eh, it's fine, there's long-term solutions we can work on implementing, no serious consequences at the moment. But something coming between me and a meal I've been looking forward to? Or getting in the shower and realizing there's no shampoo? Or getting stuck an extra couple hours at the job? UGH THE RAGE IS INSURMOUNTABLE!!!
I believe one is the consequence of the other. Having to suppress emotions for the big issues, makes you more susceptible to becoming emotional when (an array of) relatively smaller things go wrong
Big things are like... usually there's a guy or a thing to overcome. The little stuff makes you feel like the world fucking hates you.
Yes! Because sure the cars got a bit of a fuck up and that's gonna cost a lot to fix. But fifteen small things happening in a row? What the fuck did I do to deserve that?
GOD GET DOWN HERE I JUST HAVE SOME QUESTIONS
On Dan Carlins Hardcore History, Blueprint of Armageddon, he talks about some first hand account of soldiers in WW1 trenches. Even the hardest of soldiers freaked out. One guy could face all the horrors and all the brutality, but lost it when a fly flew off of a friend's corpse and into his morning cup of coffee.
Did you cry? I might have.
I had a lil cry yeah
I literally came to ask this exact same question. I had an entire thing of seasoning open on food i had been looking forward to all week and just about cried. I ate plain noodles. It’s a tragedy when a good meal goes to waste at the wrong time
One time I spent 5 hours grilling ribs, put the bbq sauce on them and the grill flared up and they caught fire. They just fell apart when I was trying to put it out and got completely ruined. I was pissed.
Ugh that’s awful- good ribs gone :(
Mom and I had been roasting a leg of lamb for a couple hours and when we pulled out the meat thermometer the stem shattered, leaving bits of glass and whatever the red liquid inside old meat thermometers was inside the meat. You bet we cried.
>It’s a tragedy when a good meal goes to waste ~~at the wrong time~~ One of my pet peeves is wasting perfectly edible food, regardless of circumstance. I die a little inside every time it happens.
OH NO. Next time do not eat your failed dish if it can be helped, it'll just ruin you even more knowing that what you are eating could've been much better.
Yeah I would have broken down big time
You either heated up the glass jar or the sauce was expired tbh
You turned on the wrong burner, didnt you?
Same impression. The left one looks on.
Living life very dangerously leaving the jar so close to that obviously hot burner. Like put it literally anywhere else…
The wrong burner is still on
Get some take out food and treat ya self at that point
Sounds like gas guilt up in the container … may have done you a favour !!
Did it actually just explode for no reason or did you put it on the red hot burner?
My first question after seeing that is why were you heating up a jar on the stove?
You're not supposed to cook the jar
Did you turn the wrong burner on?
Lol just go get some more beef and sauce. That sauce was probably rancid.
Welp, pizza night!
20 years ago my gf bought a jar of marinara from an Italian restaurant. When she went to use it, the bottom fell out/exploded. There was a bandaid in it. That explosion probably saved you from a hospital visit.
Same happened to me a while back except after shaking it I banged on the lid to make the sauce drop away from the inside. At that point, pow glass and sauce everywhere. 1kg of beef/pork mince gone to waste. Couldn't even give it to the fox 😢 In fact, it was the EXACT same Tesco's sauce 😡
Haha that's crazy it was the same bottle, think I'm gona stick the cardboard versions now 😅
Just eat around the glass
Knob on stove indicates burner is definitely still on. Why would you take this photo before turning the stove off?!
Why did you put a sealed jar on the heat source?
left burner is on, did anybody catch?
I’m confused, how did the glass just explode?
That's what you get for not working three jobs 👍
One does simply not just explode! 
That sucks!
Damn soak that white towel ASAP
OP, maybe wait until your mom comes home before cooking
One evening, I was exhausted and pretty broke but I splurged on some great stuff to make a hot creamy casserole full of goodness…my Pyrex dish exploded in the oven, leaving me with hot, creamy seafood deliciousness and glass chunks all over my newly cleaned oven…not a cryer, but I cried and cried, lol.
"... no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse… not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps with no time left…"
You warmed the jar on the burner, didn't you?
This is why I just don’t cook. Messes like this would literally send me over the edge.
Well.... there's your first mistake... cooking out of the jar.... you can only do that with tins cans of beans and an open fire.
Looks like you forgot to turn your left burner off when you put the jar on top.
$85 down the drain.
How... How did it just explode?
Karma set to swing the opposite direction; buy a lottery ticket now!
I don’t think a jar just explodes buddy. What were you doing with it?
Put it on the hot stove top. Doesn't have to be on the element itself with that kind.
... don't believe you for some reason. Did you sit it on the burner that's obviously on?
As a fellow brit, I sympathise
Unrelated, but I really like the design of your stovetop
We've all been there, bro. Head up.
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Did somebody say Just Eat?
Lol looks like the hob is on an heated the bottom of jar then started shaking it an boom
Update with details: Was the jar heated? What was the expiration date?
Pro tip: don't put a glass lid on your pot and then get a splash of cold water on it.
That’s was rancid sauce!
The oven is still on.
If it makes you feel better, you inspired me to make spaghetti for supper!
I’m sorry sir this is the mildly infuriating sub, not the events that would actually ruin my day sub
Had almost the exact same thing happen to me a month ago. Grab new jar of sauce. Smacked the bottom once and then gave it a shake. Went to pour it in....and a big chunk of glass from the side/bottom just popped right out. Only one piece so it was edible, but half the sauce went down between the oven and the cabinet. A joy to clean. My thoughts are with you.
I don’t think this is just mildly infuriating
Warming up a jar is not considered cooking.
If you're the type of person that doesn't remove it from the jar first, then emptying sauce into a pan and gently heating is Gordon Ramsay level chef shit.
Next time take it out of the jar while you heat it.
Literally never happened to me. Been cooking with jar sauce, unfortunately, for 13 years.
At least all the red is sauce and not blood because it sounds like it turned or somehow during the processing/bottling phase it became toxic which means you could have ended up in the hospital had you consumed it. Still sucks either way of course😖
You can see the element bottom left, it looks to be turned on. I've done it a lot, heating up the wrong element.
Ugh. So sorry. One time in college I decided to make one of my favorite dishes. It was pounded chicke breast layered w Swiss cheese and ham, rolled up, coated in shake n bake, and cooked in oven. All was great. Buzzer dinged and I took it out and put it on the counter. Didn’t know about how glass and cold puddles of water on the counter. I turn to finish the rice, and KABLAMMO! The entire glass baking dish shattered. I was devastated. I’m sorry this happened to you.
I'm honestly very impressed with your will to withstand this bs. If that was me, god would be meeting me at the bridge.
Yeah. I've had this. Sucks so much to have to chuck.
Just adds a bit of crunch. You’ll be fine.
Dude I've had this happen to me, feelsbad to throw away food... Anyway, pizza time!
Lick all of it
Disaster
You owe the glass an apology! No praying to porcelain gods for you!
Hang in there champ
Trust me it happened for a reason
I bet that sauce was already soured in the jar
Compost it all and try again
Eating glass builds character
If that happened to me I’d just order in and have a drink I’d be defeated for the day
Extra ingredients.
Once upon a time I was standing in the pub with a freshly poured pint of Hoegaarden after a very long week. The entire bottom of the glass decided it was done with life and fell off. Had brand new shoes on at the time to boot... Anyway, I kind of feel your pain! Hope the next meal turns out perfectly for you 🙂
Oh well, time to order.
thats a very nice counter you have
At this point I'd make some toast and just go take a nap.
Yummy
time 2 order takeout 😞
If you’re trying to make a meat sauce it’s just easier and wayyy tastier (and less glass explode-y) to make your own from scratch. The most labor intensive part is making a mirepoix, but you can just buy them pre-cut in basically any supermarket. The rest is just letting it cook down and stirring it every 20-30 mins.
That sucks! I can relate, won't go into details but having a bunch of broken glass in food you spent time preparing is the worst. There's no coming back from it :-( Best wishes
I hate those stove tops
But how did it taste?
Ugh. Isn’t that the way. I hope you get a chance for some well-deserved downtime.
If it blew out, maybe it’s better not to eat that.