Sauce in glass bottles

There's also the fact that plastic is cheap and nasty and crumples if you try holding it.
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branston plastic bottles are really good almost crush proof
these ones
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stulid said:
Tastes better in glass bottles.
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This. Though if you're taste buds are fubared and you can't tell the difference, plastic bottle it away I say.

Never had any issues getting mine out either.

SuperTronNarwha said:
That Glass bottle taste better is science
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Fixed. From an article on Coca-Cola, but it's the same principle.

Given that the formula is always the same, yes, according to Sara Risch, a food chemist and member of the Institute of Food Technologists. “While packaging and food companies work to prevent any interactions, they can occur,” she says. For example, the polymer that lines aluminum cans might absorb small amounts of soluble flavor from the soda. Conversely, acetaldehyde in plastic bottles might migrate into the soda. The FDA regulates this kind of potential chemical contact, but even minute, allowable amounts could alter flavor.

Your best bet for getting Coke’s pure, unaltered taste is to drink it from a glass bottle, the most inert material it’s served in. Even that’s not a sure bet, though. Coca-Cola maintains strict uniformity in processes in all of its worldwide bottling facilities, but it concedes that exposure to light and how long the product sits on store shelves may affect the taste.
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+1 Exactly what i was going to post, plus i've read somewhere what the plastic leaching interferes with natural testosterone production, something that a gym goer like myself would rather avoid.

AcidHell2 said:
There's debate if its psychological or a real factor.
But plastic leaches into the contents although the amount is regulated.
And the lining on aluminium cans absorbs flavour from the contents.
Where glass is very inert so doesn't interact with the contents.
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A meal is about more than utility. Glass makes you work for your reward and has class that comes with being an age old solution. No question squeezy bottles are for heathens.
 
LordSplodge said:
Glass is far better than plastic. Less energy to produce, less to recycle and a lot of things taste better out of glass like Cola, Beer and brown sauce.
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That's not strictly true. Plastic is the better environmental performer in a number of ways. Plastic containers are a LOT lighter than an equivalent glass one, so it's cheaper to produce, uses fewer resources overall, takes less to transport and there's less material to recycle. Glass is easier to recycle but, as I mentioned, there's a lot more of it so it requires more energy overall. In landfill there's little in it, but long term I prefer glass because there's nothing to break down (or react with all the other chemicals in the landfill) and leach into the water system. The other problem with plastic containers is they use mixed plastics for the container and lid, which pollute each other as recyclate. PET is very recyclable, but quite sensitive to pollution from the other plastics used with the lids and necks. Most plastic also comes from a non-renewable source and is not infinitely recyclable like glass is, so the price will go up as oil prices rise and we'll have to switch to bio based plastics. This in turn creates social problems with food crops...

Personally, it's glass all the way for me.
 
shifty_uk said:
So, why are they still sold or stocked in large quantities and in practically every bar/restaurant? It's an utter nuisance being sat there thumping away at the bottom of a bottle, am I right? I just can't see any benefit other than a glass bottle looking better placed on a table?
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It looks better, may have a taste benefit (somewhat debateable) but most importantly for many bars/restaurants the glass bottles are easily washable and refillable - from what I've seen it's not all that unusual to simply refill glass bottles from a giant ketchup dispenser.
 
I thought Coke was better out the glass bottle as it only carbonates when you pop the lid. I find the cans too fizzy tbh.
 
Jonny69 said:
That's not strictly true. Most plastic also comes from a non-renewable source and is not infinitely recyclable like glass is, so the price will go up as oil prices rise and we'll have to switch to bio based plastics. This in turn creates social problems with food crops...

Personally, it's glass all the way for me.
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That's the biggest issue. Plastic is mostly made from oil whereas glass is mostly sand (well silicates) and there is plenty of one and not that much of the other.

Personally I think we should have stuck to glass bottles and the system of getting 10p (or whatever) back when you returned them to the shop.
 
LordSplodge said:
Personally I think we should have stuck to glass bottles and the system of getting 10p (or whatever) back when you returned them to the shop.
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I can see this returning at some point.

Was reading an article the other month about the next EU targets for energy/co2 and although we are on target to hit the renewable energy production and co2 reduction targets for 2020, we are not on target with the energy reduction targets and experts are expecting a lot more laws in the coming 8 years along the lines of the lightbulb ban. To ensure we hit such targets.

When I was over in Australia, even their plastic bottles earned you money in certain states and there are bins and recycling bins everywhere. So I'm sure they must recycle more as well as no litter as there are millions of bins.
 
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Glass bottles cause you to use less sauce because its harder to get the product out, saving restaurants money.

They can also be refilled.
 
Jonnycakes said:
Hmm irn bru is probably the only thing I haven't ever tried from a glass bottle...always cans :/
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You get it in loads of corner shops and newsagents in Scotland, most used to give you some money back for returning the bottles as well. Actually it was the same for any of the Barr's drinks as far as I recall whereby the purchase price contained a refundable deposit.
 
Yeh still works that way, the price of the bottle has gone up to about £1.20 but you get a reffundable 30p on each bottle cap :D

If you have never tried irn bru from a glass bottle thne you don't knwo what you'r missing out on, its so much better than the cans or plastic bottles :cool:
 
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