That's why I love to ask a question here, even though I always google it, too. I find more realistic wisdom here. Mostly "the party line" elsewhere.Beekissed said:Sometimes I get so weary of what "people, or they" always say.... I just have to see for myself.
Bee, I had always used mayo and other jars until I began loosing entire batches. Maybe it is just in our area but many of us noticed the same thing. We culled the mayo and purchased more mason/ball jars. MIL tried different brands of lids and rings,; the rings just spin on the mayo jar and never tighten for a seal.Beekissed said:Are you sure your canning lids won't fit? We canned in mayo jars for years and my mom still does! Mom says she has never had a mayo jar explode or break on her, but has had several "real" canning jars do so.sylvie said:I thought I got a free deal on canning jars until I realized they were mayonnaise jars that canning lids wouldn't fit! Boxes of them, grrr.
I'm still looking for your luck!
Good score, Free! Feels good doesn't it?
When my mom comes up this spring, I'm going to have her bring me more of her canning jars......you'll die to hear this......she has several bunches of canning jars in trays next to her "junk pile"(things dad stores just in case he needs them!) in the woods behind her house.
You must understand that this woman used to can approx. 400-500 qts of produce every summer when we lived off grid....so she has quite a collection. She had already given me some before, but I think I'll scrounge the rest of them.
Yep, I'd read here on this forum about others finding them this way, so I placed a couple ads on craigslist. I warn you, however, that most people don't read well, apparently, as I clearly stated no glass-lid jars, and that was what most who replied had. Someone wanted $20 per case for modern quarts with rings and lids still in the boxes. Sheesh. That is why patience is needed!Dace said:
Yikes. My elderly lady friend who gave me about 4 dozen, almost no two jars alike, said that years ago some companies would sell spaghetti sauce and such in actual canning jars to get you to buy their brand, and it worked. She had a bunch that she got that way. I wonder if the mayo jars were the same way, just not Mason or Ball branded.Beekissed said:Could be different brands, maybe. And maybe back in the 50s-70s they were pretty standard and took the rings? We've always used them and found them to withstand the repeated pressure canning much better than regular canning jars. As a matter of fact, Mom's worst canning episode involved a Kerr jar that exploded and threw hot slumgulleon all over her face and chest. It was a horrible burn and she still bears the scars.
