I've had a Tilia FoodSaver for a few years now and I really like it. I buy
a lot of my meat in bulk at Costco, then vacseal it and freeze.
Occasionally I'll do vegetables or fruit that way. I use the canister jars
for marinating meat, also. And when I dehydrate fruit, I'll use the
attachment that allows you to put the food in a mason jar and vacuum seal a
lid onto it.

Recently I bought a gallon of honey which came divided into two plastic
containers. Knowing that honey will eventually crystalize and become a pain
to get out of the container, I decided to distribute the honey into pint
canning jars, planning to use the vacuum-seal attachment on the Tilia.
Opened a brand-new box of pint jars, which happened to be Golden Harvest.
Don't know how many of us have had experience with them, but they cost less
and they work just fine for canning, whether it be BWB or pressure. But
there is a slight difference in the jars from the Ball or Kerr brand. The
GH ones feel lighter and thinner.

I wasn't thinking about that until I tried to vacseal the jars. They would
not seal, period. I looked online at the Jarden site to troubleshoot my
problem. Their FAQ answer was that the attachment doesn't work with any
jars but Kerr or Ball. Hmm. Probably just saying that because Foodsaver,
Ball and Kerr are all under the Jarden umbrella of brands. I stuck the
honey on the shelf with the unsealed lids and screwed bands on them to hold
the lids in place. Figured it was still better than leaving the honey in
plastic.

The more I thought about, the more I wanted to test what Jarden said, that
it has to be a Ball or Kerr jar. Poured honey from the GH to a Kerr jar and
voila, it sealed. I ended up emptying all the GH jars into Kerr or Ball
jars. Every last one of them sealed. I washed all the lids that I had used
on the GH jars and put them away to be used again since the sealing compound
wasn't damaged.

Interesting note. I used wide-mouth jars the second time around with the
wide-mouth vacseal attachment. According to the Jarden site, they no longer
include the wide-mouth attachment in the newer models of Foodsavers.
Apparently it used to fit the canisters, but no longer does so they did away
with including it in the packages. You can still buy it as an accessory,
though. I have both the regular and the wide-mouth attachments.

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-Marilyn