![]() Whether it’s hummus, ranch, or chocolate ganache, this vessel will accommodate all your dipping needs! You can mix, transport, serve, and store all in the one container. Plus with a plastic or stainless steel storage lid you can keep your food fresh, air tight, and leak proof! So buy those delicious treats in bulk and easily portion them out when you get home. Our favorite use for this little cup is SNACKS!!! I mean, who doesn’t like snacks! The wide mouth half-pint has a large opening into which hands easily fit. The 8 oz half-pint jar is short and round (I feel ya, sister!) measuring about 2 ½” tall. Solar lights, coin banks, bug house, dry goods Hot & cold drinks, flower vase, soap pumps Hot & cold kids cups, crafts, sorting, pen holderĬandle holder, dry goods, toothbrush holder Snacks, dips, organization, kid-size portions Here at Mason Jar Lifestyle, we use accessories to turn our regular mouth jars into almost anything! Below is a chart with the sizes regular mouth jars that are available and some suggested ideas: Regular Mouth Jar Size In generally, canners prefer a regular mouth jar for pourable foods such as sauces, jellies, and jams. ![]() You can easily score some regular mouth jars at yard sales and your favorite thrift store whenever you need to add to your collection. ![]() It often has the iconic Mason jar shape (tapered top and wider at the bottom – just like me!) and is widely popular and available. Hazel-Atlas Glass Company (1902-1964).The regular mouth jar was the original model and measures 2 ³⁄8″ for the inner diameter and 2¾” for the outer diameter. The question of course arises though of how accurately, over time, people will distinguish those older jars from the newer ones.Īnd to be clear, this is not an endorsement of their re-use, however old they are: it is just a survey of the topic.Īgain, for a fuller discussion of re-using commercial jars, please see: Re-using jars from store-bought products . Some home canners still feel comfortable using these older, heavier Classico Atlas Mason jars for water-bath canning in a pinch. And, to be clear, Classico to our knowledge didn’t certify their 1980s and 1990s jars for re-use as Mason jars, either. The older Classico Atlas Mason jars - going back to when Borden brought Classico on the market as a premium pasta sauce, sometime before 1989 - do indeed have more heft to them (not that heft determines how well glass will survive heat it’s how the glass was tempered.) To be clear, though, these were still never the original, actual, Hazel-Atlas Mason jars certified for use and re-use as proper Mason jars. After all, why would they? There’s no upside for them - why assume the liability, when they get no extra money for taking on that worry? Also, the lighter weight of our current jar could make it unsafe for home canning.” Accessed July 2015 at This would increase the risk of the jar breaking when used for canning. If scratched, the jar becomes weaker at this point and can more easily break. A coating is applied at the glass plant to reduce scratching and scuffing. In any event, Classico does not endorse the current jars for re-use:Ĭan I reuse the Classico® jar for home canning? No. Classico refers to their “current” jar as being lighter. It appears that “older” Classico Atlas jars (from the 1980s and 1990s) may have been made of thicker glass, and consequently may have stood up better for re-use. Nevertheless, these jars, perhaps because they do say “Mason” on them, are amongst the most popular for re-use with home canning, though they were never actually intended for re-use, as they are not real Mason jars. We have not yet been able to find out how they acquired the rights to use the Atlas name for this. It appears stamping the jars as “Atlas Mason” is a packaging / marketing technique of the Classico company. The Atlas “Mason” jars that you see now used for Classico pasta sauces were never actually made as actual, genuine Mason jars by Hazel-Atlas. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. (Click to enlarge.) Img src : Canning Helps By Hazel-Atlas.
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