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.

  • 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.