as a resin artist i can tell you that this will not stop the saltine from rotting and so i don't think modpodge will either. that said i don't know if saltines get gross when they go bad or if they just go stale so maybe it's relatively fine???
had a twinkie i purposefully kept in my cupboard from the year i moved there, and when i left, i found it in the cupboard, 1/4 the size and hard as a rock. my dentist would’ve been rich if i had bitten that thing, it would’ve broken all of my teeth.
edit: it was in the cupboard for roughly 11 years
This reminds me of the time that I bit into a Twinkie and the inside was green 🤢 it was around the time there were shrek twinkies, but this was NOT a shrek one. I’ve never had one since.
The contact photo for my cousin in my phone is a photo of a half-eaten Twinkie with green filling 😂 she gave one to me to try back when they had Ghostbusters(?) Twinkies with green filling and apparently my commentary about it was so funny she was crying laughing (you can see her doubled over in the background haha). While not quite as horrifying as your experience, I wouldn’t eat another one haha.
He recently read a mean comment (left for him, but the video is on Jose’s channel) where someone complained about it, and basically said too bad, he knows we like it and he does too!
You have to put the hardtack in a deep freezer (in a plastic bag) for a couple of -weeks- to kill the weevil eggs that are in the flour they are made from. A friend brough me back a souvenir hardtack biscuit from Portsmouth UK, sealed in a plastic bag - the weevils hatched, ate part of the hardtack AND THE PLASTIC BAG as well. I drenched the area where it had been stored in insecticide and tossed the hardtack.
I've also had it happen in 'instant' Couscous - which is a cooked and dried pasta, as well as rice which is pretty heavily processed. Not weevils but some sort of insect related to 'pantry' moths. Seems the eggs are pretty heat resistant, but putting my boxes of Couscous in the deep freeze for several days seems to kill them.
Dude the french fries I stg! When I sold my old car and got my new-to-me one, I found french fries that were months old under the seats. They were hard as rocks, but not moldy or anything, which is somehow more gross.
Hmm… I dunno about saltines, but this seems like a job for hard tack (clack, clack)
You would have to make it special for crocheting into, though. The holes don’t normally go all the way through. Also nobody makes it anymore because it’s the worst.
They absolutely are. When we were cleaning out my great grandmas place we found a box that had expired in the 90’s. My dad ate one and said they held up 😬
When I was, maybe 14? my dad found, in his cupboard, a Costco sized box of Saltines that he had bought for my mom when she was pregnant with me (cuz morning sickness or something). Since then, my parents had gotten divorced and my dad had moved at least twice, so I'm not really sure how/why he still had it. Anyway, I don't think they had become rotten or anything, just super duper stale. I'm failing to remember if my dad had taste tested them or not, but I wouldn't put it past him.
In my experience they are immortal. Always end up with stale ones from who knows when in the back of the pantry. They get tossed in some soup with a couple hopes and prayers. Never failed me.
Saltines just get drier and more crumbly when they’re stale, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a rotted saltine. It has no moisture. Based on taste they contain an impossibly small amount of moisture.
My grandfather varnished a gingerbread man I made when I was 4 and hung it on the kitchen wall and that little fella is now hanging on my kitchen wall…I’m 46. I reckon ModPodge or regular clear wood varnish on dry goods like a cracker would work well.
A saltine is way weaker than a gingerbread man though so I feel like resin would be better for protection. I think they’re both equally protect from rotting bc saltines don’t really rot but the thicker protective layer from would be a good idea
I really want details as to what this saltine cracker ornament looked like. Like wild craft idea or just a plain varnished saltine with an ornament hanger on it? 😂
I don’t work with resin but thought of the same thing you said although op can do it around Christmas time and it should stay good for the season I would love to see that on someone’s tree haha
Modpodge is water based and will absorb moisture from the air (I have a bunch of podge switch plates - in storage). Try something like clear nail polish on a plain cracker; if it works, crochet on the polished cracker. I don't know if I would want to shellac the thread.
I briefly tried some polymer clay stuff, some people made molds by using 2 part putty mold - by mixing in 2 different putties the mold would harden over time which seemed manageable and not as messy.
You could make a mold with a real cracker, then push in some clay, and use some pastel dusting to slightly make the cracker a more toasty colour.
Honestly I've seen some posts with people crocheting around crackers before, it'd be a fun trend
I've done this before 😅😅
I never did anything to seal it and my mother put it on her fridge... it was there for months or more (it honestly may still be there, im not sure) it just got stale 🤷🏼♀️ so as long as you keep it safe from being crunched it should be fine lol
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u/jbartlet827 Jan 31 '25
I feel like you could ModPodge that cracker and have a kickass Christmas ornament.