Foods 12 – September Lab Reflection

I chose to reflect on the Moms Apple Pie Jam because I found it the most interesting lab we did this month. I enjoyed this lab a lot more than I thought I was going to. I personally don’t like apple jam very much and I also don’t like super sweet thing very much. Seeing how much sugar went into the jam I was immediately worried about if I would like the jam much if at all. I was pleasantly suprised by the jam and I think it went really well on top of the crossiants we made. The end product wasn’t overly sweet and I think it looked as if it was professionally done. I think my group worked pretty well together. We were able to get the apples cut to the correct size extremely fast and were able to start making our jam way before the other groups. I think my group was really good at time management and splitting up the jobs to help us work together better. The only problem we really had was when were were trying to put the jam into the jars we ended up spilling quite a bit on the jam on to the sides of the jar and I was worried that we didnt clean it enough for the sealing to work. If I were to do this lab again I think I would be intrested in trying to make the jam with less sugar to see if it would still taste as good. I would also try making the jam with a different fruit. I’m not completely sure what fruit I would choose to make the jam with but I think it would be an interesting task.