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Is the left conspiring to make sure we can't can food? They seem to hate anything that allows independence.
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WTT pecans for canning lids... PM for the best deal. I got dibs. Run along now. Thems my lids.
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I think the guys on Moonshiners are using them all up.
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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. Use your hand, not a tool.
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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. Use your hand, not a tool. This. My fingernails are pretty short. Index, middle and ring fingers. Place last joint of fingers on jar with nails touching the jar and bottom of the lid. Lift steadily and the lid will usually pop loose. I wish I knew how to post pictures. I made it sound more complicated than it is. If it just doesn't pop loose, then I carefully work a church key around the edge without too much pressure in any one place. Usually won't damage the lid.
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I have been seeing canning lids in the stores lately. Just canned some pheasant soup tonight. Got 5 quarts plus enough for dinner and lunch tomorrow out of 6 birds.
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Try the Tattler reusable jar lids. They cost more but I have some that I've been using for 5 or 6 years and they're still in great shape. You have to follow the direction carefully as they're a bit different than the 1-use type but they work great. Hint - don't wait until August to order them. TATTLER LIDSYou can also get bulk metal ones from Amazon much cheaper than the name brand one. If course they're made in China and they're thinner but they work just as well as Ball or Kerr.
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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. Because of the lid shortage I tried to get my wife to keep every lid that was not bent. NOPE. It's unsafe she says. Good luck finding them this year wifey. kwg
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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. Because of the lid shortage I tried to get my wife to keep every lid that was not bent. NOPE. It's unsafe she says. Good luck finding them this year wifey. kwg Lots of people think that reused lids aren't safe. If it'll seal, it's sterile inside.
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Try the Tattler reusable jar lids. They cost more but I have some that I've been using for 5 or 6 years and they're still in great shape. You have to follow the direction carefully as they're a bit different than the 1-use type but they work great. Hint - don't wait until August to order them. TATTLER LIDSYou can also get bulk metal ones from Amazon much cheaper than the name brand one. If course they're made in China and they're thinner but they work just as well as Ball or Kerr. And if you only expect a years use they will be fine, but we have food that's 3,4,5 years old, and the Chinese lids will rust through.
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I’ve got 10 year old tomatoes right now. Came across some 1998 green beans couple years ago. Still good. 😃
I would not use a ‘re-used’ for those.
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Lids are the new cripto. 
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I think the guys on Moonshiners are using them all up. Jar of shine is more valuable than a quart of Grandma's green beans when the SHTF.
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I’ve got 10 year old tomatoes right now. Came across some 1998 green beans couple years ago. Still good. 😃
I would not use a ‘re-used’ for those.
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I’ve got 10 year old tomatoes right now. Came across some 1998 green beans couple years ago. Still good. 😃
I would not use a ‘re-used’ for those.
Tossed some early 80s stuff at the farm last year. I didn't even stick around to catch the aroma when they broke in the dumpster.
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We got beans in glass Miracle Whip jars, a wide mouth band.
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Maybe a dozen jars.
Still some lids in boxes but I wonder how the rubber would be on them.
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We got beans in glass Miracle Whip jars, a wide mouth band.
We still can tomatoes in Bob White syrup jars from the 70s. They took a regular lid and band.
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We got beans in glass Miracle Whip jars, a wide mouth band.
We still can tomatoes in Bob White syrup jars from the 70s. They took a regular lid and band. I scored a shed full of molasses jars from and old woman’s estate sale. They run about 42 ounce. Take a standard lid. Some even have a steel bail handle still attached. Least i think theyre molasses jars.
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