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Gloria Morris wrote:
> 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,
>   
Gloria, to get them off without bending them wedge the back of a table 
knife between the lid and glass thread at the point where it comes 
nearest the top of the jar, and then twist gently.  Work carefully; you 
only need lift it enough to break the seal and it will come right up.

And as to zinc lids, they haven't been seen in these parts for many 
years, and for the last 4 years I've have to order rubber rings from 
away (yes I still use the old bail jars, carefully).

Susan Jane, in Maine