Tattler Lids

[Ozarks Tom]

Ran across this at Survivalblog this morning and thought it might be useful here:

survivalblog.com/home-canning-reusable-lids-michele-c/

[farmchix]

I've heard there is a learning curve involved. I, personally, haven't tried them yet.

[Deleted]

Can water to practice. It's just time and energy to process. Clean and sterile water.  A positive item to have on hand ..win win.

[Wendy]

I have some and the seal rate isn't any worse them regular lids. I like to have them on hand in case I can't get regular lids.

[Tim Horton]

When Tattler was first available, Sweetie took advantage of a significant discount on a large bulk sale available from them.. Ending up with likely a life time supply of product..

Yes.. Sweetie will tell you there is a little difference in how to use them.. Like said, start slow, only can half of your project at the moment with Tattler.. That way if you have seal fails, you can eat the product soon. Separate your batches on opposite ends of the counter. Fill jars and seal with Tattler, then fill and seal with steel lids. Don't try to work with both mixed.

Check finished seals often as you practice and learn. Can water to practice rather than leave an empty space in the canner.. All good ideas.

The Harvest Guard (?) lids ?? The difference between them and Tattler may be like the difference between Ford and Lincoln, or Cadillac and Chevy.. I'm not sure.. There may be a better way to express this... shrug....

Sweeties seal failure rate is no worse with one lid over another.

Good luck..

[janinco]

Ozarks Tom, Thanks for the link to the article. good info. I have some and have had mixed results, but lost my info on the newer way to use them. I printed this out and will put with the Tattler lids. Regular lids have gotten so expensive!

[pammysue]

Thank you for the link, I'm going to try canning with the lids again as I didn't have very good results before so hopefully this article will help.

[susieneddy]

We have some on order that is shipping to my daughter. She will bring them down when she comes to visit us in June.

[feather]

We've stocked up for the past 3 years on the tattlers when I can get a deal on them. (like starting a credit card offer, during a sale)

I started to just use metal lids for things we might gift like colorful multi-vegetable pickles or spiced pickled garlic, or spiced pickled carrot. If we get blackberries, then jam and syrup. Most of our food stuff though is legumes, tomatoes, green beans, corn, and more tomatoes. Those I use the tattlers for.

I've been using the used-cleaned-dried tattlers as they come off of jars, but maybe I should use the new ones, store the used ones until I run out of new? I think of my routine as canning a lot, but not enough to get every jar into a tattler top so far.

[Tim Horton]

I think of my routine as canning a lot, but not enough to get every jar into a tattler top so far.
------- To us also, in that things we will use get Tattler canned.. Give away items get metal. Give away is mostly family and friends who 99% return jars and lids.

Like said, even with the time Sweetie has been using Tattler, it will still take time to make a total conversion in the cold room.

We pretty much exclusively use, used metal lids for vacuum sealed items.. Wash used metal lids well, keep in hot water as they are used. Check seals when cool, check seals 3-4 times over the next 24 hours and you are usually good to go... If a lid doesn't seal, set it aside for unsealed storage use.. Or bend and recycle.

We use jars and non sealing lids to store tea bags, 1 cup coffee pouches, restaurant style jam, peanut butter packets, sugar packets, and the like.

[Ozarks Tom]

I may have mentioned this before about vacuum sealing dry goods. We sealed half gallon jars of split peas and stored them out in the old milk barn. A month or so later we noticed some lids loose. I'm thinking abrupt temperature changes loosened them. We resealed them all, but then put rings on them tight. They've all stayed sealed in the year of more since.

[Deleted]

I wonder if dipping the jar topped with the rings on in was would prevent rusting...I am near the water and humidity rust ring just stored but not vacuumed sealed. Which is why I don't store jars with rings. I only need 40rings for a batch.

[Tim Horton]

I wonder if dipping the jar topped with the rings on in ?------? was would prevent rusting...I am near the water and humidity rust ring just stored but not vacuumed sealed. Which is why I don't store jars with rings. I only need 40rings for a batch.
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Paisley..... I think you skipped over typing the product you plan to "dip" the jars into to prevent rusting..
What product did you have in mind to use ??

Thinking about it a minute... I suspect you could use a product like food grade grease.. We got a big tube, like a super giant size tooth pasted size tube at the kitchen supply store to use on our meat grinder and such equipment. I thought it was kind of expensive at $14 or so as I remember, but again it is a huge tube and should last a long time..

With a little on your finger, wipe around the inside of the threads of the jar ring to prevent rust around the threads and against the glass and lid...

That kind of what you had in mind ??