Ball Canning Company ILU~~~~
Aug. 29th, 2012 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76On the way home from work, I stopped at ACE Hardware, since I know they carry a good selection of canning materials. I was there to get a box (6) of half-gallon jars so I could finish up turning cucumbers into pickle spears.
(I was good. I resisted the boxes of (9) wide-mouth pint-and-a-half jars that were on sale 2 boxes for $14.)
The store not only had Ball's Blue Book, which is one of the canning bibles, they also had plastic lids. BPA free, even! Not for use in canning, but for storing. Like, dry stuff in a cabinet, or stuff in a fridge. Things where you don't need the two-part ring and a vacuum seal to guarantee freshness.
Having been getting heartily sick of lids and rings rusting in the fridge, I bought a box each of the regular and wide-mouth. I washed them, and swapped them out for the ones in the fridge. I am happy. No more looking at the lid of a jar and wondering if its corrosion has tainted the pickles/chutney/jam....
(Oh, yes, and the pickles are now done. Three half-gallons and one pint, tucked into the fridge. Yay!)
(I was good. I resisted the boxes of (9) wide-mouth pint-and-a-half jars that were on sale 2 boxes for $14.)
The store not only had Ball's Blue Book, which is one of the canning bibles, they also had plastic lids. BPA free, even! Not for use in canning, but for storing. Like, dry stuff in a cabinet, or stuff in a fridge. Things where you don't need the two-part ring and a vacuum seal to guarantee freshness.
Having been getting heartily sick of lids and rings rusting in the fridge, I bought a box each of the regular and wide-mouth. I washed them, and swapped them out for the ones in the fridge. I am happy. No more looking at the lid of a jar and wondering if its corrosion has tainted the pickles/chutney/jam....
(Oh, yes, and the pickles are now done. Three half-gallons and one pint, tucked into the fridge. Yay!)
