

2019 Juice Jam, Juice Jam 2019, Syracuse. Every year, students await the announcement of the lineup so they can buy their trendiest outfits and prepare for the day's haul.

Jam is poured hot into the sterilized bottles, and it is allowed to cool down by putting into water bath, waxing by paraffin wax or other waxes can be done, and finally metal caps are vacuum capped on the jars.Ĭanned jam should be kept in cool, dry places away from sunlight. Juice Jam is the first highly-anticipated event on campus that brings students and organizations together for a festival-style lineup hosted by University Union. Sheet test – small portion of jam is taken in spoon and cooked a bit, and allowed to drop, if product drops as sheet or flakes, jam is made perfect, otherwise boiling is continued. Sheet test can also be performed to check jam. We heat the mixture up to 105 C or 68-70% TSS to ensure proper setting of jam. Specified amount of citric acid is added while boiling itself. A foamy scum may form on the surface of the jam this is normal and can be removed by adding a little butter (about 20 g) to break the surface tension or by skimming it off with a spoon while your mixture is cooling. Slowly, whole room will get filled by the fruity smell and a network like pectin. After keeping the above prepared mixture on heat, we need to wait till the sugar dissolves. Adding more pectin results in harder jam and using more sugar can make it sticky.īoiling is the most important step in jam making, which require a lot more patience. sugar, binds to the water molecules and frees up the pectin chains to form their network. Required amount of sugar and pectin is added to the fruit pulp/juice. The gap between the sieve and rotor can be adjusted to suit different type of size and qualities of materials to be pulped. Various pulping machines are available in market for fruits such as mangoes, peaches, tomatoes, bananas, draw berries and celeries etc. Pulping is done to remove seed and core part. Pitting is stone in fruits containing hard inner stones. Dump and spray washers can be used in industries.įruits can be hand peeled as in case of citrus and apple, mechanical peelers and automated peeling machines containing blades are generally used in industries. pH and temperature should be maintained, to prevent fruits from getting damaged or bruised. spoiled fruits are removed from the lot.This can be done using hand picking, color sorters.įor effective washing of fruits, 200 ppm of chlorine can be used in water. Ripe firm fruits received for jam production are sorted and graded according to their color, sensory appeal.
