Seems like a shame to throw away and must have a use.
I save them up all year, and come Christmas / Lunar New Year, I bake cookies then hand out jars filled with cookies to coworkers and neighbors.
It turns out that my wife and I consume exactly enough jam in a year to balance out the jar egress for the maximum number of social connections we can sustain.
If I have a spare, I might make mango chutney. It doesn’t need to be vacuum sealed if you just make one jar and eat it reasonably soon.
I suppose you could engineer them to be solar garden lights too. There ought to be enough room for the panel on top of the lid, a battery and circuit on the underside, and then you hang an LED in there.
Do you happen to have a recipe for that mango chutney?
Not exactly! I just sort of take finely chopped apples (for pectin), onions, mango, and dried raisins or dried apricots. Then I boil, adding (a little) vinegar over time until it looks like chunky jam. Then I flavor it with soup stock and cinnamon to taste. Some nutmeg too, if you like. Finally I adjust acidity and sweetness with more vinegar or some sugar – but that’s usually not necessary if I add things in slowly.
If it’s too acidic, boil it longer, adding a little water if it gets dry. Vinegar (acetic acid) is a gas and will evaporate out slowly this way.
Mix frequently.
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Growing mushrooms.
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So I’m not too clear on the details but you can buy mason jars with silica in them and some spores. Put them in a dark spot and water them(?) and you’ll soon have psilocybin mushrooms. Unclear how you get the spores in the jars…I think they come that way? I’m not sure but I think you can order them online but it might be a dark web thing.
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Seems like a shame to throw away
Don’t throw away glass! It’s almost always recyclable if you cannot find a reuse for it!
Also, if you have a local “Buy Nothing” group I can guarantee someone will take it off your hands. My wife has gone deep into the Buy Nothing world, and pretty much anything someone takes. Broken espresso machine? Someone wanted it. Glass containers from old individual serving tiramisu? Someone wanted it. Someone online said they had old broken paving stones, someone took them. It’s amazing how often you can find someone else to reuse something you might not have a use for.
Between Buy Nothing, industrial composting, and recycling, we end up with a surprising amount of the waste from our house staying in the “Reuse, Recycle” part of the waste hierarchy (since composting is technically recycling), and very little actual trash.
Seems like a shame to throw away
Don’t throw away glass! It’s almost always recyclable if you cannot find a reuse for it!
I mean… maybe because I am not a native English speaker but how you say it normally? Don’t people say “throw away” even when they throw it to the recycling bin as well?
I never thought it would imply to not recycling it, I am confused.
Could be, who knows! Regional differences in English make it complicated.
I’ve always used these as separate verbs. “Throw away” to me means to put it into the garbage, “recycle” means to put it in the recycling bin. Like, “Oh, don’t bother recycling that, just throw it away” or, conversely, “Don’t throw that away, it should get recycled.”
But at the same time, if someone were to hand me a rinsed-out milk carton and say, “throw this away” I would probably ask them where their recycling bin is. All down to interpretation and situation, I suppose.
Language is fun!
In colloquial American English you throw away trash. You throw away garbage. You can throw away rubbish. You sort recycling or you take out the recycling. Recycling becomes a noun in this use case.
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I’ve seen at least two videos of a jar being used in the wrong way. Using these to make casts is the third because the rigid container will have to be broken to get the mold.
I recommend cleaning it and just using it to store bits and bobs or food if its food-safe. Or just recycle it. Or, make a lego submarine.
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Why, uh. Why was that your first thought.
Life, uh, finds a way.
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.
Container for smaller objects.
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.
Speaking of coffee, cold brew! Although I have two large mason jars and a metal filter that are designed specifically for that purpose.
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.
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!
Gonna need a longer jar.
Might be a bit narrow, but if you wanted to make some pickle spears it should work.
I like to do a fridge pickle (always gets eaten within a few weeks, so spoilage isn’t a huge concern). Something like this pickled jalapeño recipe works with most veggies, and you can use some whole black peppercorn and mustard seeds (or a pickling spice mix) to give it that pickle flavor.
Freezer bag sealing clips like Ikea’s Bevara
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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.
