Comments on: Illuminate your Pasta Sauce?

By: fran

fran — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:43:05 +0000

I love glass jars too. However so many of the lids have strong odors that I find impossible to remove, and I can’t find replacement lids. Any suggestions on how to banish lid odors?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:18:54 +0000

My sister reuses her glass jars as drinking glasses for her and her family. She loves how different they all are. Small jars for juice, large jars for water etc.

By: Tracey Sullivan

Tracey Sullivan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:36:12 +0000

I reuse jars to store left over items that have strong odors, such as scallions, onions, chives, and garlic. the seal is air tight, and they last longer than using plastic wrap or foil.

By: Marguerite

Marguerite — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:56:11 +0000

after cleaning the jars, besides using them for storage containers as many have mentioned, I also use them as sterile outdoor drinking jars. I put fresh lemonade in them and can park the jar almost anywhere and not worry about dust or bugs getting into my drink. It’s great!

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:41:05 +0000

I use my glass jars in combination with my FoodSaver. They have lids that can be purchased to be used on (wide or small mouth) mason jars. Once the air is sucked out of the jars, the flavor and freshness of the food lasts longer. They can be used on dry ingredients such as coffee beans & nuts or left-overs in the fridge. Anything that can stretch my food dollar has a star in my book.

By: Jessica Swartley

Jessica Swartley — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:02:01 +0000

I love glass jars! We use them for everything. I am a pickle fanatic so we have alot of pickle jars. I sterelize them before I use them. If the label has a nice look to it I will leave it on and use it for a center piece with candles or tee flowers floating in water. I also like to cut out pictures and modge podge photos all around it or magazine and newpaper clipping so you can see the candle light from the inside. Be creative and have fun.

By: Nina

Nina — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:09:31 +0000

We reuse our glass containers (with the glass lids) from candles for spices and herbs. They look great and we are recycling. Purchase the candles with the lighter scents as it is much easier to thoroughly clean the jars and lids, the plastic portion of the lids sometimes retain some of the candle scent. We usually stay with vanilla or mocha scented candles.

By: amy

amy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:07:24 +0000

I keep my glass bottles to simply drink out of them. these could be jam bottles, milk bottles, pasta sauce, etc. After cleaning them and removing the labels, they take on a very different look. they have characters that you wouldn’t have notice before. they come in various sizes so you can use them all different purposes: a small glass of juice, a big glass of water, and good glass of ice-tea. they brighten up your glassware collection and make it fun.

By: Sean O'Connor

Sean O'Connor — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:50:50 +0000

I re-use jars to store smaller items to keep them all organized. One is full of change.

By: m huse

m huse — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:41:44 +0000

We use glass jars for many things, incluing many of those listed above. While I like to recycle as much as possible, cleaning the jars can be very wasteful of water usage. This is minimized by washing other dishes on top of the jars first to both clean them and loosen rhe labels, soaking stubborn ones by leaving in used dishwater with some hot water added, waiting until a bunch of labels need soaking and by diverting the dishwasher discharge water into a dishpan (use gloves to empty-do not touch woth your skin!) for soaking.