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Default Canning lids

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 07:27:45 -0600, pheasant16 >
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> OK Gang....... Anyone still lurk now that George has passed?
>
> Got caught last summer with pants down, middle of tomatoes ran to
> grocery store to buy lids; no dice. Hardware store; no dice, farm store;
> no dice. Throw 'em in the freezer.
> Find a few boxes on the internet, a buck a copy. Oh well have a few.
>
> Shopping for Christmas decided to look again; finding lots of lids that
> are listed as canning, but only address uses that don't involve heat.
>
> Have names I've never heard before, not Ball, Kerr, Jarden, Golden
> Harvest. Names like COOOFO.
>
> Are these true canning lids or just meant for storage?


I'm still around. I know nothing from nothing about jar lids.

I saved the brag-label from one of my boxes of lids: "New &
Improved/SureTight(TM) Lids/Helps Keep Canned Food Sealed/NOW up to/18
MONTHS."

If any jar Mom put up in the forties were still around, it would still
be sealed.

Recently I opened a jar of pickles I put up in August of last year,
and the sealant on the lid was all bubbly.

Fortunately, all I ever put up these days is bread-and-butter pickles,
and I keep them in the spare fridge, so they don't have to be honestly
sealed.


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