What's on your bathroom vanity? What's on top of your kitchen counter? Spider in the house! What do you do? Need help finding specific kind of glass jar!!! Actually, Shirley, the company is now Jarden, but you are right, they include all the brands you mentioned. I still like the Ball Lids better, though, I seem to have some trouble with Kerr lids not sealing as well. When I complained I was told that the sealing compound had recently been changed and that I shouldn't have any more problems.
I haven't seen Kerr lids available locally since then. The white coatings on some of the older lids is just a layer of special paint. Because they improved on the yellow coatings irridite that the lids get prior to the rubber seal application, the newer lids need no further coats of paint or other application. They stand up well to all types of canning, unless the coating is scratched and bare metal is exposed. They are perfcetly safe to use in all canning, and even the rings get this coating.
But as you know rings can rust, but thats due to the glass jar threads scratching the threads in the rings. This threaded area is not in contact with the foods, so any outside rust on the rings is OK. Many tin cans now get a similar yellow coating inside, as evidence of the inside of the lids that are yellow.
THey're OK. I've used them. I don't know what they're made of, but not all metals other than stainless are reactive stainless is just the only one that pots are commonly made out of. I haven't noticed any difference in performance and generally use whichever is available and cheapest. Corrosion only happens in the presence of oxygen.
In a properly sealed jar, there should be no oxygen, therefore no corrosion. If there is, you have a bad seal and the food should be thrown out anyway. I've had corrosion happen, but only on opened jars. Same here - Kerr lids used for years now with no problem.
I don't recall ever seeing any center white enamel on them. But then none of the Ball lids I just purchased this week have any either. I have a Kerr jar And stop complaining Now you need to fill it up with some goodies and give it as a reusable gift. Older lids did have white painted surfaces inside. Not just Kerr, but also Ball. I still have a few that have fruity graphics on the outside, to be used with 8 and 12 ounce jelly jars.
The ball lids buckle when used. I have never in my years of canning had lids to buckle like these do. I believe someone is trying to stop home. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. While Ball now has all the recognition in home canning, it was actually Kerr who introduced two fundamentals we now use today: a mason-jar lid with the gasket affixed to its underside, and, wide-mouth jars.
Ball copied these innovations. The Kerr jar company was founded by Alexander H. Kerr, born 4 September in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After some basic schooling, he migrated west. He went first to southern Idaho, where he ended up in the retail grocery trade.
Kerr, Samuel C. Kerr and Francis R. Giles-Clough Glass Co. Page His partner was John Giles. The company made metal lids and spring clips. Fruit Jars — A history worth remembering.
In: Bottles and Extras. Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. Winter They were not screw-on lids; they were clamp-type lids which had a rubber gasket attached to the underside of the lid, incorporating elements from a design patented by Julius Landsberger in The jars and their lids were very similar in operation to the Fowlers Vacola jars still used in Australia today.
The company would go on to make the Economy jars until , and replacement lids for them until From to , Kerr kept his business offices in Portland, Oregon. Then, in , he moved the office to Chicago. During those first years, Kerr did not actually make his own jars. Harvard Business School. In , Kerr finally had enough business to open his own first manufacturing plant, in Altoona, Kansas. In , he came up with another simple one-piece flat disc-and-gasket combination for lids, similar to the Economy lids design, but held in place during processing by a screw-on ring band instead.
Other models at the time required you to re-tighten a lid, or snap down a clamp, as well as often using separate independent red rubber rings for the actual sealing. Farms Finest: Mason jars preserve food and American history. Aspen, Colorado: Aspen Times. They would remain there until , though the company was incorporated in Delaware.
Factories established or bought by Kerr include: [6] Whitten, David. Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corporation. Web page. In , Kerr introduced what is now the standard 3 inch 76 mm, inner diameter wide-mouth mason jar:. Cool Springs Press. Lethbridge, Alberta. Click for larger. By the s, jars with the screw-on ring bands were more popular than the Economy clamp-type models.
During World War Two, some Kerr jars shipped without their metal lids. A participant in an antique jar forum wrote,. They do not have lids due to the WAR…. These Jelly Glasses packed without lids. Kerr Squat Jelly Glasses. User posting. Kerr on the bottom of some jars. Recently, one of my long-ago former co-workers mentioned on the Food in Jars Facebook page that what she really wanted to see was a visual guide to available jars out there.
Amazingly, I did. Before we dig into the jars, you should know that all standard canning jars sold in the U. The first group is the available regular mouth Ball jars. They come in quart, pint and half pint sizes. These jars are the ones most commonly found on the east coast.
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