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firstjois
 
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Doug Miller wrote:
In article , Silvan
wrote:
How big is a standard mason jar? A quart?


Standard sizes are pint, quart, and half-gallon.

Are these things available year
round from places like Wally World, or only during canning season?


Should be available year-round.
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One of the big brand spaghetti sauces comes in mason jars, too. It's the
quart size and if you make a lot of requests for pasta you might be able to
get a good collection going pretty quickly. Even better, the jar covers
are screw tops with a rubber type ring on the inside. Good closure over and
over. Jar covers come tomato stained but I set them in the sunshine and
the sun bleaches the orange out in a day or so.

Occasionally someone like Ace will set out white plastic one piece
replacement covers, not suitable for canning but seems to be okay for short
term shellac and oil based paint storage. These I'd be more likely to put
a square of waxed paper between the jar and white plastic lid.

Josie