I'm finally free of youth hockey season, which means that I may as well try to make kombucha and lucky for me there's a recipe in my Ball canning book. I understand that the page says these are safe for canning, but could I potentially use these for something like jam if I happen to run short on jars? I know this is kind of a crazy question and I'm mostly buying these for the shape because they fit in cup holders for drinking said kombucha, but I would not put it past myself to run out of 16 oz jars this summer and need something in a pinch. Lol
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At $14 for only 4 jars, they better rub my feet and make me coffee!
But yes… the Ball-brand nesting ones are (according to Ball themselves) cleared for canning.
The ball kombucha recipe isn’t actually a canning recipe. It’s a fermentation recipe. So in truth it didn’t matter what jar/bottle you use beyond something that’s strong enough to withstand the pressure. But yes these are proper canning jars
You can reuse commercial kombucha bottles
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kombucha/s/H9H40PZo5l
Yes, but why?
I have some of these so we don’t drink out of the actual canning jars. These get washed more often and will bear the risk of chipping. And the different shape makes it easy to tell apart.
They’re also about 3x the price of a regular pint jar.
I have these, but not for canning. I use them for drinks. Only 4 (as someone else pointed out they’re crazy expensive) but they stack in the cabinet. So, they’re good for space and drinks.
I’ve canned pickled green beans and pickled asparagus in them because they’re taller than regular pints. Now I can get the 3/4 pints from azure I don’t can in them anymore.
Yes, Ball affirms these are safe for canning and I can confirm that I can with them, but they’re certainly not my favorites. I’ve canned stock and raw pack beef (separately, obvs) in them with no problems, they’re perfectly serviceable jars.
The glass is thicker than a standard mason jar, and I suspect they’ll hold up longer (which is good because as others have mentioned they’re relatively expensive) but because they are wide mouth; my canner can fit less jars than with standard pints. The empties do take less space as you can stack them to store them, but as I have reflected on their use I’ve found I don’t keep THAT many empties around. More often my jars are in a constant rotation, either for canning or borrowed for dry storage and various knick knacks until they are needed.
You are correct that these fit very well into cup holders where the standard pints do not. I frequently use them for my morning coffee. I think they’d be very well suited to something like a kombucha for that exact reason.
I enjoy them for their novelty and don’t regret my purchase, but if I need to purchase more pints, I don’t see myself picking up more of these. If my current ones were all shattered in some kind of accident, I would probably buy a single set, because they are useful for their niche.
Yes, I use these for canning as well as meal prep for the same reason, they fit in my cup holder.
I’ve used these to can on several occasions. But I got mine for $1.00 a 4 pack on the clearance aisle at TSC. Spent $10.00 and ran for the door. I didn’t find out what everyone else was paying till I had already used them or I might have been on eBay.