I’m only sharing this post for discussion and not promoting these old products for use today. I guess this was the old way to pressure can back in the day? I found these old collectible gems today and wondered what it was like trying to get a good seal on them and what the seal rate was using these methods back in the day. Any old timers out there who may remember using this or having parents or grandparents who canned using these tools?
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I just bought a lot of vintage canning jars with rubber gaskets just like those new in the box. But extremely old. I also have the dozens of the zinc lids that the older jars used to use with the ceramic inserts. I looked up how to on YT and found really about 4-5 videos showing how to can with the rubber gasket and the bail and wire styles jars. I only one found using these gaskets if you have the zinc lids. What style jars do you have?
Weck uses this method/style of lids. Why would it be unsafe? Genuine question
I learned how to can with those lol. Back in 1973, my grandmother used these NOT for wet foods, she used them only for dry canning whole grains, dried beans etc.
She used standard jars for meat and veggies. In an average summer on her working farm she and i would put up well over 250 jars of food, she was in her 70s and i started learning at age 5.
She also had a collection of random things people had used to make the gaskets during the depression, like pieces of old tire tubing, old raincoats, heavily waxed canvas. And extra bales for the jars made with actual baling wire and mechanic wire.
Never had a single seal failure, and the really old thick jars SHE got as a wedding gift in 1917 still were going strong when i was a kid.
I miss the old Atlas bale jars. The really old ones she had often had an opalescent patina, and some had turned colors due to sun exposure.
This looks similar to weck jar lids which are safe to use. I’ve actually been trying to switch over slowly since you can reuse their lids. Its just pricey ;_;
Oh I have some of these jars from my Grandma and use them for dry storage. They are gorgeous jars!