Does anyone know anything about vacuum seal jars?!
I'd like to be able to seal fresh roasted coffee beans in an airtight mason jar!. I'm a bit of a minimalist, and I really don't want to buy a barely portable, bulky, foodsaver machine let alone have it reside on my counter day and night- and then have to use their plastic jars on top of that!. Plastics and coffee beans just don't mix!. Just wasn't sure if there was a product on the market that could screw on top of a basic mason jar, and let me hand crank the air out of it!. Either that or a glass jar that comes with a crank-pump lid would be fine too!. My main gripe is no plastic, no metal- just GLASS please!. If my coffee snobbery is irritating I understand!.!.!.sorry!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
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I just went to google and put in where can I buy Mason Jars, sent me to Freund Container and Supply, a division of Berlin Packaging, the phone number is 1-800-363-9822, since I don't know your e-mail address, the option for sending this to a friend can't be done!. But they have Mason jars, a case of 12 standard size- 8oz jars is $8!.58, 16 oz!. jars $9!.71, wide mouth 8 oz!. $9!.44, and Can or Freeze, which would be good for coffee, 8 oz!. is $12!.81, thanks for bringing this up, I'm thinking about teaching my kids how to make up can goods that aren't bought in the store, my mom used to make us do this all the time, we'd go to the farms, pick fruit and vegetables, then go home and clean,peel or whatever had to be done and can them!. Since all our food is questionable as we no longer grow and buy our own, but instead have it shipped from other countries, and who knows where it's coming from, this is a good idea to pass on to my kids!. Thanks for the idea!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
You are really going to have to use rubber too to get a good seal on the jar lid!. Old fashioned canning involved heating the jar and the stuff to go into it!. When the lid with a rubber seal was placed on top a vacuum was formed inside!.
All this is moot once you open the jar to take out the first portion of beans!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
All this is moot once you open the jar to take out the first portion of beans!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
If you are a true coffee snob then you would roast the beans before each use!. Do you roast your own!. Just being a pest!. I have read the best way to do everything and am to lazy!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Ha! I dunno what to say except you're in a quite a predicament!. Your coff-snobbery-ee is not too irritating!. :)Www@FoodAQ@Com
I do!. I was trapped in one for 3 hours once!. It's no place for humans!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
mason jars are designed for water bath and pressure canning using a lid and a sealing ring!. I have never heard of any type of hand crank that would remove the air from the jar!. Essentially what the purpose of canning is - putting so much pressure on the jar and it's contents that the air is forced out!.
You could not 'can' dry coffee by itself - it would blow up in the canner due to lack of liquids inside!.
I don't know if there is any self-sealing glass jars with some kind of air vent!.
Those fresh roasted coffee beans probably went through a lot worse than plastic or metal to get to you - I keep mine in a pretty expensive ceramic canister with a very strong gasket and self-locking metal sealer!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
You could not 'can' dry coffee by itself - it would blow up in the canner due to lack of liquids inside!.
I don't know if there is any self-sealing glass jars with some kind of air vent!.
Those fresh roasted coffee beans probably went through a lot worse than plastic or metal to get to you - I keep mine in a pretty expensive ceramic canister with a very strong gasket and self-locking metal sealer!.Www@FoodAQ@Com