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["Gloria Morris" <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com>]

I'd sure like it if someone manufactured a good quality reusable canning
lid. It is so wasteful to throw them out and buy new!!! I have not been able
to keep them intact enough upon removal to even consider reusing them,
though, as flimsy as they are - they tend to bend when I remove them. But if
anyone ever hears about reusable lids, I surely hope they broadcast the
news. I'd be in line to buy them!

Gloria



On Jan 5, 2008 1:17 PM, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:

> It was I who asked about canning lids, and despite having first done the
> best job of research I could, and then asking on several lists, I came
> up empty-handed.  I did get lambasted a few times for trying to find
> reusable; it was pointed out to me that the "USDA says you can't" do
> it.......ROFL.....so I gather a lot of folks just don't 'get' it.  The
> only thing I could see this time around is an Australian 'system' which
> requires all new jars, lids, etc, all shipped from halfway around the
> world.
>
> I was again pondering the question after having thrown out 26 pounds of
> used lids this spring.  These I'd kept 'just because' or 'in case' but
> basement flooding rusted them.
>
> The ones I had before worked perfectly and were about 20-25 years old
> when my house burned down and I lost them.  But right up until then I'd
> used them every year and had never had a sealing failure with them, nor
> had any of them needed to be pitched for bending, warping, etc.  So it's
> a real kick in the butt to have to replace the blinkin' things every year.
>
> If anyone finds anything, I'm interested still.
>
> Susan Jane, in Maine, where we have about 3' snow on the ground but have
> 27* right now so there will be settling....
>
> Robert Walton wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I think it was on this list that we discussed reusable canning lids. A
> > company online was selling them. I remember going to their website,
> > but can't find it anywhere now, not even by googling.
> >
> > Anyone know about these reusable canning lids?
> >
> > Rob - Va
> >
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