diff --git a/evcache-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/evcache/EVCacheSerializingTranscoder.java b/evcache-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/evcache/EVCacheSerializingTranscoder.java
index 599387cd..0235b81b 100644
--- a/evcache-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/evcache/EVCacheSerializingTranscoder.java
+++ b/evcache-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/evcache/EVCacheSerializingTranscoder.java
@@ -149,9 +149,6 @@ public CachedData encode(Object o) {
         int flags = 0;
         if (o instanceof String) {
             b = encodeString((String) o);
-            if (StringUtils.isJsonObject((String) o)) {
-                return new CachedData(flags, b, getMaxSize());
-            }
         } else if (o instanceof Long) {
             b = tu.encodeLong((Long) o);
             flags |= SPECIAL_LONG;