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wow! just watched this video about canning lids. i'll be checking my lids more that's for sure.

well worth the time to watch.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pelyWF0sz-M[/youtube]
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Oh !im so pissed! I did the same thing as the lady and the Ball Lids SUCK! All the canning Ive done with them , my shit better not go bad!!! Good Find my friend on that video.
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no shit. and i've been using them myself. i had 3 jars of beans not seal on the batch before last. now i'm wondering if it was the fucking lids. now i'm getting really pissed. i hadn't even connected my own dots. i'm a nit.

so, can we take them back? do we start a viral campaign against ball lids? i'm email and call them at the very least. and i'll be checking every damned one of them from now on.:rant:
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This is EXTREMELY interesting!  I pretty much stopped using "KERR" lids (and jars, most of which have come from friends with stuff in them, so one would naturally wash them and plan to re-use them) because I always seemed to have about 1/3 to 1/2 of whatever I canned to not seal.  But I ALWAYS depended on BALL jars and lids.

So, what are we to do with the lids which don't "pop"?  Can we take them back to the store?  I doubt if they would take them back, and even if they did, the replacement box might be just as crappy!  Lids are EXPENSIVE, and can't/shouldn't be used twice anyway (so one would consider them as a necessary cost of canning), but those lids in the video are BRAND NEW!  What happened?  Did they "outsource" their lid-making to CHINA for Pete's sake?

THANK YOU, TinyGreen, for this WONDERFUL thread. :bump: :bump: , 5 stars, "Suggest Pin" and a GREENIE for you!!

PS, your jars of preserved food look WONDERFUL!!!!
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The gold ball lids are still great.  It is the silver ones that have given me hell.  I just threw out another jar of pickles.  You can test your seals, but I have noticed that even after I test them, I have to go back about a week later and make sure that they didn't pop.
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Original Message last year i canned for the first time. wow, i was nervous.

this year, i'm doing better. i have been canning like mad.

if you'd like, tell us your how's and why's. learning to preserve food is one of the most important skills a person can learn.

if you have a picture of your preserved foods uploaded, let me know and i'll post it for you.

a good source for shtf or urban farming...

Thread: Farmin' in the HOOD --- VIDEO --- these families raise tons of food and have transformed the neighborhood...URBAN FARMING/ GARDENING

so far this year, we have canned...

green beans
yellow wax beans
peas
peaches
plums
zuchinni
sweet pickle relish

i'm going to try making my own fruit pie filling.

trying my hand at canning potatoes also.

finished the green beans while i was trying to write this. 14 quarts and 15 pints.

i'm going to edit this first post. moving pics to another post and will start the index of recipes and pictures.

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