Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Canning lids. I bet they get even harder to find.

They've been tough to get for the past couple of years. I bet the food shortages we're seeing now are going to cause even more people to try gardening and canning. Lids are going to be almost impossible to get this summer if you don't have enough.

We have always tried to keep a couple of years ahead on canning supplies. We've got upwards of a couple hundred dozen on hand, and we've started keeping the used lids when we open jars. I canned a jar of water last year with a once used lid. It sealed nicely and stayed sealed until I opened it a month or so ago. I hope things don't get bad enough that I have to resort to using them, but I think they will work.

I know a fella that has a truckload. Might have to see if he’ll mail me some.

Trade him some beans...

He has more than me of them too. Lol

I would be comfortable reusing the lids for something like salsa and storing it in a fridge.

Laid in a supply last Spring.

We bought some Chinese ones off Amazon last year and they seem to have worked ok. I would rather buy American but lids have disappeared out of the stores around here.

I think when we get to canning next summer, I'll do a couple of samples of a few different things. Salsa, stewed tomatoes, green beans, carrots, apple sauce, beets and dill pickles are done every year. Open up a jar of each after one year, and then at two years. See if the seal releases right, contents look and smell right. If so, I'd try a portion and see what happens. Haven't died from covid yet, so I might survive that.

I bought some the other day, will buy somemore shortly. Don't wait till you need them to buy.

Amazing that we have to operate that way in this country. And sad. I never would have believed it a few years ago, before the ammo shortages started.

Lets see…..somebody will call you bad names if you have over 3 packages in your cabinet.

Then theres the old…..”it because of people like you that prices are so high”……BS

When you see them, buy them. Don’t wait. Screw the guy that didn’t think ahead.

How are those Golden Harvest lids? Supposed to be by the same company that makes Ball/Kerr.

We bought some online last summer.

I’ve never had any problems using them. Have a few boxes in my stash.

I've reused canning lids (we call them domes) for several canning seasons. if you take care of them and keep the rubber part from getting damaged and keep the white part from getting scratched to the metal, you should be good for several canning years. there's no reason unless they get damaged to trash them after 1 use. My daddy taught me to shake the sugar bag until there ain't no more sugar rattling in the seam of the bag. He was dang sure gonna take care of canning lids for re-use.

Never had any issues with them.

Anytime I’ve ever had any problems with any of em, it was always a small chip or nick in the rim of the jar.

Good to know that someone has already been reusing lids/domes successfully.

How are you guys opening the jars so that the lids are reusable? Ours seem to bend when we open the jar. I have been finding them at the Amish stores, buy them in a sleeve of 24 dozen.

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