If you home can your food, here is a tiny tip that will save you some time and trouble. When you open a jar to use the food, save the "cap" and wash it when you wash the jar. Then, when both are dry, turn the cap upside-down and gently screw on a ring. Place in your storage area.
When it is time to can, your jar will be perfectly clean, no dust inside, no dead spiders... Voila!
i know that you do that all the time. i think mom does it too but i'm not sure. do you still have the violet jelly we made and canned? it was delicious!!!
ReplyDeleteI gave all of the violet jelly to your mom to take home. Ask her about it! If it's gone, you and I can make some more next year!
DeleteI am assuming you never re-use the old sealing lid?
ReplyDeleteI don't, but I know someone that does. I just don't want to take a chance of wasting the food. If I were desperate, though....
DeleteI recycle the used lids... They're great caps for storing dehydrated foods in Mason jars. No sense wasting a good lid when a used one will accomplish the same thing.
ReplyDeleteYes! I do the same thing, just not for actual canning.
DeleteDont can when you have your period it will often go off. There is a certain bacteria your body gives off at that time
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I've never had that happen, but apparently someone has!
DeleteI use the old lids to store things in the jars, for example, I use them to store my special flours, beans, legumes and nuts and I don't waste my new seals
ReplyDeletean ex-mother in law canned all her salmon with used lids...like over a hundred jars.....and all the lids looked sealed.......but a few months later nearly 3/4 of them had opened......what a waste!!!
ReplyDeleteI bet she was just sick over that. What a terrible thing to have happen.
DeleteThis is a great idea! Someone at Church said she never stores empty jars, she fills all of her "empty" jars with water - for extra water storage. Sounds like more work... but it's not a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteThat really is a good idea! But yes... more work.
DeleteVery simple...very smart:)
ReplyDeleteI reuse the lids to store things as well. I don't like throwing things away that can be recycled for some other use.
ReplyDeleteI bought a new box of Ball lids and when I opened them a couple days ago they were rusted. Now I can't remember where I bought them to return them. Very irritating! They will get used for your tip. Why hadn't I thought of this before? THanks for sharing.