Seems like a shame to throw away and must have a use.
Glass recycling is pretty good. Near complete recovery of the material. Plastic is basically impossible to recover, but glass and metals are generally very recyclable.
Just put it in the bin. Let the city recycle it. You’ll get it back as a beer bottle or another glass bottle like this one, or something else entirely.
Do you happen to have any My Little Pony figurines to put in the jar?
Store pickle, spices, dry fruits? I’m not sure if that’s a food-grade jar.
It’s glass, it’s food safe.
Yes, it is, but glass can be contaminated by previously carcinogenic and not-fit-for-consumption substances. Simply scrubbing with soap and water isn’t enough.
Huh? What jar bought from a store these days is going to have that issue? There is uranium glass but even the cheapest cheap shit glass from the dollar store is going to be safe for food storage. Glass isn’t likely to leach out harmful chemicals like plastic can. Plus glass doesn’t absorb anything that could then later be harmful, that’s why glass is used for canning among other things.
Old glass can be quite dangerous - carnival glass is especially notorious for contaminants. Glass is tricky and a lot of cheap glass intended for display and manufactured abroad may still not be food safe.
I use wide mouthed mason jars for Kratky hydroponics. This design (not my design) makes them into nice, decorative pots.
Just wanted to say this comment got me interested in a Kratky setup, should have the rest of the equipment later today. Thanks for sharing!
Gonna start off with some leafy greens and see how it goes.
Collect loose change maybe
I use old mason jars to store my whole bean coffee in the freezer until I’m ready to grind and use it.
A coffee aficionado can probably chime in on why this is bad, but uts the best use I’ve found for the jars.
AFAIK the best thing you can do to improve your coffee-freezing process is to prevent moisture from getting into the beans when you thaw. If you let it, moisture from the air will condense on the cold beans. So keep the beans in a closed, airtight container until they come to room temperature. (Airtight because water vapor is air.) So yeah, jars are good for this. Or sealed freezer bags should work too.
Good to know! Thanks! I vacuum seal what I can’t get in jars and let it all thaw freezer > fridge > ground.
Speaking of coffee, cold brew! Although I have two large mason jars and a metal filter that are designed specifically for that purpose.
Freezing is okay and helps for storage of big bags, but freezing and taking them out and putting them back in every day isn’t good because of the condensation.
But even then, it’s probably fine.
I don’t do that. I only thaw and grind enough for about a month’s consumption at a time. I got ~6 pounds of coffee for Christmas and only have a cup a day usually.
I was just providing my process because it seems, unintentionally, well designed to avoid condensation.
Nice!
Container for smaller objects.
There are two wheel known uses for a jar on the internet. You don’t want any of them.
Fill the jars with loose screws, nails and bolts then screw the lid into the bottom of a shelf above your workbench. Screw jar into lis and voila you’re living in 1972
If spaghetti fit, you could use it for that.
Around here, there’s also these shops that sell all kinds of goods without packaging, so where you bring your own containers and they fill it up with oatmeal or nuts or noodles or sugar etc… Would be a useful container for that.
If you don’t always need glass jars to pour your bacon grease before you wash the pan, you are clearly not eating enough bacon
Why, uh. Why was that your first thought.
Life, uh, finds a way.
Depending on where you live, this may be the start of your plastic-free/no-waste journey. (You’d obviously need a place where you can shop plastic-free somewhere near you )
Even if you don’t have a place like that, it’s still worth it to put the stuff in jars to prevent maggots from ruining everything.
Nice collecion you have there! Just got my hand on a large cardbox worth of jars. Almost all of them have caps as well. My plan is to slowly clean and fill them up, just like you did! Also I recently found out (by a foodwaste prevention program) that I have plastic-free shop not too far away from me.
One possibility is that, any of these jars that were vacuum sealed in the first place, they can easily be re-vacuum sealed with a cheap vacuum chamber/hand pump combo. it’s not an appropriate preservation method for all the kinds of things that originally came in the jars, but will keep dry goods from oxidizing/etc.
I’ve slowly been adapting to this! I love having all my jars, it’s like living in a lab with specimens
The Internet has ruined me. I will not elaborate further.
Cum jar?
One man one jar. Please don’t look it up.
So I went looking for the date 1 Man 1 Jar was released and I found out that it has an IMDB page with predictably silly reviews. Technically it’s NSFW but it’s all text.
But yeah you’re like 15 years too late for me lol.
My mom has a collection of old jars. I’m not sure even she knows what to do with them, but she’s pretty crafty. Or if you’re not super crafty yourself, maybe you know someone who is and would appreciate the jar? Idk.
Alternatively, you could recycle it. In my city there are a couple places people can take their recyclables (plastic, paper, glass, even yard waste) for free.
