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Well big Jim that's because the farther you live from town the more common sense you have and greater sense of being organized and responsibllity to yourself and family. When you live in town the more you act like a trained rat. MB

When my dad was suffering dementia, every time he went fishing, which was a lot, he'd forget that he had hooks, bait, & other stuff and would go buy new stuff. When he died, you wouldn't believe how much fishing stuff my sister and I had to clean up. We had buckets of unopened Power Bait, stacks of unopened hooks, etc. We must have had 40 miles of new line. He died in '06 and I still have boxes of stuff.

I live in Tailgunner Joe's hometown. We had no real problems keeping all manner of good stuff on the shelves. That includes mason jars, available even in schmancy ble from Fleet/Farm and Wood-Mart.

I’m going to have to post some pics. lol



Conrad....let’s see you canning jar hoard before your fan boys get too gushy.

Haha! Dont feel threatened.


It sounds like you got me beat by a couple thousand or so........

lol

They don’t get “Dan Halen Status”

Slum Halen Canning Jars International.......

I just picked up a case or 12 pints at the local Mennonite store for $9. They had dozens of cases of all sizes there. No shortage in my neck of the woods.

Area's with HOA's often dont have a huge supply of canning jars laying around.


The more Starbucks you have.....the lower the supply of canning jars you will come across. Unless you buy them one at a time......with a candle inside.

Cool, they're already sterilized if you kept the good stuff in them.

Probably can't reuse those Jim.

Never get the stink of "Northwoods Pine and Balsam" out of the jar. Would ruin some good jam or pickles.

If you buy this Classico brand pasta marinara, there’s an Atlas canning jar under that label. Standard lid.

They are 24 Oz though

We have a few of those hanging around in cupboards and boxes. I should say I have some. My wife is always tossing good stuff like that.

A mason jar Call Our thread... what have I done?

Please guys... "We are all in this together..."

Did everyone catch that?

It means he's willing to send us some if we run short.

I have atlas, drey, ball, kerr, blue ball with bails and glass lids, some were old when mom had them. Quarts, pints, half pints, gallons. We used mayo jars all the time. You can reuse lids in a pinch if you dont take them off roughly. I also have never used zinc lids and rubbers. The history folks aint got nothing on me.

Dont forget the paraffin. Or just let the mold seal it and s scrape it off

I have one canadian jar that has a lid half way between regular and wide.

They have a half decent sauce. Best thing is that they are one of the few companies that uses good
reusable containers. I use those for dry storage, longer term and liquids short term. Called the company and talked to a gal that asked around and got back to me with an answer to my question. I was wondering if those were the same grade as the ones we are talking about and reusable for even hot pack?
She confirmed that they aren't made for or supposed to be reused because they could break.
I suppose that they order a mess of those at a price point cheaper than canning jars and should be used with caution as a last batch after the good ones are used. Never canned with them but did boil sterilize with no issues.

I would therefore NOT use them in a pressure canning scenario

However, I now do almost all of our canning with a hot water bath stock pot

You could use them in there.

For the same reason I’m perfectly comfortable with using the older Kraft mayo and miracle whip jars. Those are not pyrex grade either and yet, No probs.

I saw plenty of the canning jars in town today. We also have an odd to us Canadian jar.

My local Rural King just got in a shipment. I picked up all I’ll need for this season, tonight. They still had plenty of jars, but there were only a few pots and canners left.
I wanted to buy an All American 930 canner this year but they are gone everywhere because of this stupid virus.