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Post by lauriel on Dec 29, 2010 12:37:06 GMT -4
Has anyone tried the tattler lids? I am really getting fed up with Kerr and Ball lids not sealing in the pressure canner. I know the Tattlers lids are expensive but I think the cost would be well worth it in the long run. I plan to can until the day they lay me in the ground. I know Lehman's sells lids that are supposedly better. Anyone have a source for GOOD canning lids?
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Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Dec 29, 2010 13:11:09 GMT -4
You can buy direct from tattler. I've never heard a bad thing about them.
I was under the impression that loehmans lids were tattler, slthough it doesnt say so, they look identical.
My bro and me are going to order a couple cases shortly, with extra rings. This past season was my first full seadon canning, and i bet we spent $500 on jars, lids and rings. Does bother me to get a single use out of anything snd just toss it. Apparently tattler has bulk prices. I hope so.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Dec 29, 2010 16:51:30 GMT -4
I am going to wait on those, UGA does not advise that they are safe to use, besides, I can get the metal lids very cheap, under .10 cents for regular mouth, and, I like to write on the lids with a sharpie. I am going to stick with the single use metal ones, something about trusting food for many years with a plastic lid that doesn't seem real advisable to me anyway.
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Post by lauriel on Dec 29, 2010 17:26:57 GMT -4
I can get lids for less than 10 cents too, but they are just not working well when I use my pressure canner. I have been canning for a long time so I don't think it is that I don't know how. It seems the the last couple of years the lids have gotten thinner and don't seal as well. I do know that my Mom used Tattler like lids when I was young, kept them forever. They went missing after my Mom died and my Dad remarried. I do trust them, and I am plannig to order some.
Rick the Tattler web site has all the prices, the more you buy the better the price. I really like to use things more than once also, as in forever!!! And when TSHTF lids may be hard to come by or not available at all.
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Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Dec 29, 2010 17:45:55 GMT -4
If the gov. tells me i shouldnt use them, I'm gonna buy twice what i need.
I can write on a label or tape if i have to. Def. gonna get all i can.
The rubber gasket makes the seal. Im new at canning, but i have some pickles here that mom made maybe 5 years ago, i opened one last spring, and they are thicker feeling, esp. the gasket doohinkus.
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Post by lauriel on Dec 29, 2010 20:55:22 GMT -4
I think that is why so many of the lids I am buying now fail. They work ok in the water bath, but the canner is another story. They just aren't as good as they used to be. In the past I would can and usually only had 2-3 jars not seal all year. I canned 27 pints of ham this week and had to recan 8, 2 never did seal, finally made scalloped potatoes and ham with them.
Totall unacceptable,so I am gong with the Tattler lids.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Jan 3, 2011 21:03:35 GMT -4
I guess I have been lucky, I have only had 1 failure in the last two years, maybe a bad lot went to your area?
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Post by lauriel on Jan 4, 2011 9:10:24 GMT -4
Well I got most of my last years lids from the Air Force comm. in Minot. My daughter's boyfriend gets them for me and we can things for him. I don't know if that was the problem or not, they packages looked identical to the ones in the store. I am going to order some from Leahmans, the ones they have aren't made by Ball of Kerr. I will try them this winter and see if they work better before I do my major canning this summer.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Jan 4, 2011 9:39:50 GMT -4
I can't figure out what the problem could be, but I know I would be some upset if I had that many failures, it is a lot of work to have to repeat. I use mostly Ball, but I also like Golden Harvest lids, have had zero problems with them, and I know others turn their nose up at them because the Dollar Store carries them, but so far every one has been fine.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Jan 4, 2011 9:42:49 GMT -4
Anyone have a source for GOOD canning lids? I get mine for the most part at the Amish Store here, last I checked, regular mouth lids were $7.65 per 100 and wide mouth were like $10.65 per 100 I will be there this Thursday to deliver papers and will check again. You probably saw their ad in the paper. Peight's Country Store. |
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Post by mike692 on Jan 4, 2011 23:45:17 GMT -4
I've played around a bit with the Tattler lids and I like them. I gave a couple to a friend who does a lot of canning, and he's used one lid and gasket EIGHT times so far! I'd like to get a big order of these. With the proper care they'd last a lifetime.
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Post by lauriel on Jan 5, 2011 11:00:01 GMT -4
Wayne, do you know if Peight's does mail orders. I would rather buy from someone like that than a big company. If you could ask them and let me know I would really appreciate it.
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Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Jan 5, 2011 11:06:25 GMT -4
Isnt golden harvest Chinese made? Thought I read that somewhere....
In the long run I think tattler would be a good investment, esp. in a shtf scenario.
I'm chuckin 20 a week away for an order with my bro.
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Post by lauriel on Jan 5, 2011 11:30:00 GMT -4
I am going to order some too. Just makes sense to me to be able to reuse them. They are pricey, I'm saving up for them , hope to be able to order enough to do one season of canning.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Jan 5, 2011 12:22:03 GMT -4
Wayne, do you know if Peight's does mail orders. I would rather buy from someone like that than a big company. If you could ask them and let me know I would really appreciate it. I will find out Laurie, if they don't, I could always buy them and ship them to you. |
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