Canning jar lids
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Topic: Canning jar lids
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Subject: Canning jar lids
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2020 at 5:20pm
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Unable to buy regular canning jar lids locally, is this wide spread? |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2020 at 6:03pm
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have you tried the 'dollar' stores ? I found them cheaper for the SAME brands, go figure ?? I can't... when the lids are $1/12 ,on sale after canning season I usually buy 20-30$ worth of them. try to get ahead of next years 'fun' ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2020 at 7:05pm
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My mother in law and my grandmother both mentioned they were having a hard time finding lids. Might be like deck boards. People have been home and decided to build decks and can I guess ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2020 at 8:08pm
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Bought several dozen a month or so back and haven't checked lately. Tomatoes and green beans are about done for this year but I will need to stock up for next year. Wife freezes our lima beans and peas. Jars were in short supply for a while but there seem to be plenty now. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2020 at 7:24am
| Brother said yesterday he couldn't find any at wally world or rural king. An orchard he visited had a few wide mouth lids for $5.?? per dozen. Central Ohio. No quart jars anywhere either. Said one of the employees at rural king told him they had tried to find another supplier for lids and jars and couldn't find any. |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2020 at 9:31am
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We had to order some this spring---- havent checked lately. ---Probably horded up by non-users again like everything else. ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2020 at 10:32am
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Posted By: TMiller/NC
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2020 at 5:03pm
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Thanks for the response, I think we have enough right now, we are canning beans and tomatoes, but will need some for hot peppers and pepper relish, wife had bought a dozen jelly jars with bands and lids so we used those lids today, will use some wide mouth jars tomorrow. Wide mouth lids are available at local walmart, but we have a limited supply of those jars. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2020 at 5:47pm
| we've been buying the lids in the grocery stores or at wally world, the jars come from the 2nd hand stores. |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2020 at 9:26pm
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regular size lids are hard to find here in Texas . Found a few big mouth jar lids at Ace Hardware store Everyone must be canning. Even those who don't know how to can are trying to can. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2020 at 11:26pm
| Lots of them at the local Grocery stores here. Tomatoes, green beans just setting on. Mulberry trees never had anything on them. Grape vines loaded. Taters need dug. Zuk's going wild even with just 1/2"rain for past 45 days. Probably won't be able to find them in 2-3 weeks when there needed here. |
Posted By: ACFarmer
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2020 at 7:55am
My wife mentioned the other day she was having trouble finding jars and lids for canning. But theres now a stack of them in the kitchen so apparently she found them somewhere. ------------- Making a living farming with and working on Allis Equipment |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2020 at 11:15am
| Just wondering what you guys paid for lids recently. The ones we got early were $2.29 per dozen for regular size. |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2020 at 1:01pm
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I haven't seen lids or canning salt around me for 6 weeks +. I lucked into one box of lids + rings... Didn't need the rings but sure needed the lids. Jars are generally available. I also think it is something to do with more people canning this year. ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: wade89
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2020 at 1:52pm
| It's a store to store thing. Up by me, there were none to be had. Drove into downtown (less gardeners) found all kinds. |
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2020 at 1:57pm
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Was in Walmart this morning getting some groceries happened to notice at the bananas a sign banana saver stopped just to glance, there was a pack of regular rings and lids sitting there... $3.78 only box
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Posted By: AMB(wcIL)
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 7:17am
| I can't find flat lids around Jacksonville IL and there still is a shortage of freezers to. Must be a conspiracy to keep people from growing their own food. Andy |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 7:39am
| We went to buy a freezer from a local appliance dealer back in June and were told that they were estimating availability in 3 months. Now a little over 1 1/2 months and still no freezer. They were blaming the shortage on lack of some of the components from over seas due to the virus. Said we were on a list of about 75 customers at that time. Couldn't find any other place that had one in June either. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 7:40am
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OK.... you do know you can(no pun) reuse the lids ? As long as the 'rubber' seal is 100%, no problem. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 8:45am
| Was in the amish store they had plenty. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 10:56am
Maybe the reason car doors are a jar, is because jars are used for canning? |
jaybmiller wrote:Posted By: AMB(wcIL)
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:28am
| Re-using lids is ok, if you have used lids to reuse !! Andy |