Glass canning jars are absolutely ridiculous here in Belgium. I garden and I am going to scale up my gardening next year, so I need to get into canning and preserving again.

If you live in the US, you could get a 12 pack of standard mason jars in a store for https://www.target.com/p/ball-16oz-12pk-glass-regular-mouth-mason-jar-with-lid-and-band/-/A-12794405 under $15.

Here, any sort of glass jar is no cheaper than 20€ for 6 online and in stores it is often 5-10€ per jar, depending on size!! That is 300% more expensive on the cheap end here. It is not super sustainable to have to spend 200 euros on glass jars to can your extra fruit and vegetables.

Is there a secret to finding reasonably-priced glass canning jars that some people have found? I would reuse glass jars that I get from the store, but you are not supposed to reuse the lids because they degrade and will let in harmful bacteria and let things oxidize.

  • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    We produce the vast majority of our own food. Classico jars are awesome until they changed the tread pattern so we can’t use the new ones with mason style lids. I have around 200 of these and use them regularly. Have been for over a decade on some. Those companies are full of shit and want you to buy more. The odd one will bust in the pressure canner but that is no different than mason or Bernardin jars that we buy off the shelf in Canada. I have never had one bust on a water bath in around 10-15 years of using them for various goods. We’ve even used them quite a lot for goods we sell from our homestead.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Classico jars are awesome until they changed the tread pattern so we can’t use the new ones with mason style lids.

      Yeah, I remember when that happened a few years back. Enough people (including me) complained that they pretty quickly changed it back. 😁

      (I only buy the extra-large 32oz jars from Costco these days, so I sure hope they didn’t fuck it up again for the regular grocery-store 24oz size!)

      • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
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        8 days ago

        They did. At least in Canada the 750ml jar. We don’t buy pasta sauce anymore but lots of folks give us jars instead of throwing them out.

        • grue@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          I guess if the Canadian jar is actually different (really 750ml, not a slightly-overfilled 24oz) then the US-market complaints wouldn’t apply. Sorry Canadians apparently didn’t care quite as much.