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They are the bomb!! Especially awesome for mouse proof storage if you have a tendency for that. Just a tip.. to get the pickle smell out of the jars and lids stuff the jars with crumpled up newspaper. Close jar tightly and let sit for a week or two. This will rid them of all odours.
Others have great suggestions. If they still don't appeal to you I'd suggest freecycle or craigslist for sale "free" section. Someone would surely want them and get more out of them than just recycling them. It's a workplace so you could just have the person come during biz hours and pick them up from the receptionist or whatever. No effort on the part of you or any of your coworkers.
Just like everyone else has said, they are so valuable I'd hate for you to throw them away.
And just like everyone else, I use them for storing pantry dry goods, and for refrigerating and freezing leftovers and homemade broth. They are also nice for taking soup and such for occasions like funerals, new babies, sickness-in-the-family - all those times when a pot of soup (or chili, or beans, or chicken-n-noodles) is something you want to do to help - and you can leave the container and not have to worry the recipients about returning it.
This. I even drink my breakfast drink out of a quart jar in the morning. (Stay classy, Jane...)Quote:
Originally Posted by Francie
I store beans, grains and flours in gallon and half gallon glass jars. No plastic in my pantry!! I bought a bunch of the at Azurestandard recently. It would have been nice to find free ones.
We do the same with water, smoothies etc. but we went high tech and bought two lids with holes in them for stainless steel straws, plus the straws. Not expensive and really useful. (Much safer for drinking a smoothy in the car, for instance, and also for water on a nightstand overnight.)Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
for pickled eggs you need to be able to get them out..........of course storage too!
Lessisbest...........I was never interested in the Food Saver thing 'cause you can't reuse the plastic, but I didn't know you could use it on jars. That would be great!
KayLR.....what kind if lids do they have?
Even if you decide not to use all of them, I'm sure someone at a place like Goodwill would love to have them.
Oh.....and if they are really old and you found them at work, is there any reason to think they shouldn't be used for food?
FoodSavers have always been able to vacuum-seal canning lids on jars (I got my first FoodSaver in 1987) with the jar sealer. They later came out with the Universal Lid, which can be used on any rigid container with a smooth rim.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
When it comes to reusing jars for food storage, I would not use a jar if some sort of chemical/poison had been stored in the jar, but that should go without saying. I would also use caution if you are canning and you find/purchase/are given a cache of old used jars - but gallon jars aren't safe for home canning - and 1/2-gallons are restricted to apple and grape juice, so there probably isn't a problem there. Glass can get brittle after years of home canning, as well as from storage conditions (extreme heat and cold in an attic, garage, shed), and can break easily. I still have some canning jars my mother had, but I only use them for vacuum-sealing dry goods, not home canning, because they are too old and brittle and would probably break easily in a canner, especially in a pressure canner.
Well, I finally looked up gallon jars on the internet, and lo and behold!, there are a lot of them to choose from! Since I only ever use mine for storage of grains, flours, and the like, I think I may just order a case (of 4). Wow!