Do you have a cabinet filled with mismatched mason jars? Sure, we all do! Here's a clever way to utilize them in the kitchen ...

Weck jars are a popular alternative to Mason jars, made in Germany with glass lids and rubber sealing rings. They can be used for canning, although this method is not approved by the USDA.

Getting an airtight seal is easy with this electric Mason jar vacuum sealer kit.It seals jars in 20 to 40 seconds with just the touch of a button. All you really need to do is put the lid on the ...

Mason added the rubber seal in 1869, cementing the jar’s appeal as an easy canning container. For the short growing seasons of the northern U.S. the jar was critical in preserving the harvest ...

Unfortunately for Mason, he neglected to patent the rest of his invention—the rubber ring on the underside of the flat metal lids that is critical to the airtight seal, and made wax unnecessary ...

Mason devised and patented a design with a threaded neck and threaded metal cap with a rubber seal that kept contents from spoiling. Mason’s jar had another benefit, too. It was clear, which ...

Then, in 1915, Kerr invented a simple one-piece flat disc-and-gasket combination that worked with mason jars and replaced the troublesome red rubber seals. This design transformed canning safety and ...