Tattler BPA-free canning lids giveaway
This is the season of giveaways here at HGGH. Don’t forget to enter to win Ashley English’s Pie book (before Aug 27!).
After hearing great reviews from friends and fellow bloggers, I’m excited to work with Tattler and share these lids with you. I received two packages of lids earlier this year, one wide-mouth and one regular-mouth, and have been using them for the past few months with much success.
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The method for using these lids is just about the same as using the other one piece lids, with a few slight changes due to the non-metallic nature of them (i.e. no lid lifters!)
I found that wearing my handy gloves and using tongs solved the issues. Gloves are definitely not required, but you’ll need to fit the rubber ring onto the grooves of the white lid before placing it on the jar and you simmer the lid and rubber ring, as you do with regular lids, prior to sealing so they might be warm upon fishing them out of the water.
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It’s also a good idea to stick the rubber rings sandwiched between each of the lids for ease in fishing them out, otherwise you end up with a clump of rings stuck together on the bottom of the pot.
The only other major difference between these lids and regular metal lids is that you need to tighten the metal bands after the jars come out of the waterbath or pressure canner to ensure a seal.
Exchanging pings for a BPA-free canned good is a good trade off in my book.
For more information on BPA in canning, Linda Ziedrich wrote on her blog a fine post detailing the issues at hand with and how to avoid BPA-tainting your home canned goods. Read up on minimizing your exposure in general and some things to avoid when using regular canning lids.
Ordering directly from Tattler means you’ll likely end up with way more lids than you had in mind. Many retailers are starting to carry them, but consider pulling together a group order if you can’t find them near you. Splitting a case with 10 people is a great way to save money and spread the BPA-free love.
Since I’m sending them to you myself, I have to restrict to US & Canada only. Sorry international loves. Please enter by September 6, midnight CST by leaving a comment below telling me about what foods in jars you hope to put a lid on this fall.
Kate
Thanks everyone for your patience. Out of 265 eligible entries, Random.org selected lucky number 169!
Congrats to Deb N of Daytona Beach, FL, the proud new owner of two packages of Tattler reuseable canning lids.
Reader Comments (266)
After my failure at fermenting green tomatoes last year, I'm going to try to take on that fruit in a different format & can my own ketchup. Wish me luck!
Tomatillo ketchup!
Definitely applesauce and whatever other extra produce we get from our CSA.
Apple butter, lots of it this year!
I will be putting up jam, marmalade and chutney, tomatoes and stone fruits...but also very excited about wild food salsas and pickling!
Prickly pear apples are ripe now and this year I am making (or trying to make, anyway) prickly pear syrup for the first time...
I'm hoping for some canned applesauce!
I love making applesauce! I want to try my hand at jams and various fermented foods also
Applesauce and cranberry chutney
"Blubarb" jam - blueberry & rhubarb - the fruit is in the freezer waiting until I have a free day!
I want to can salsa this year.
I hope to can tomatoes and fruit butters!
I am hoping to go pick blueberries next week and make some blueberry jam. I've never done salsa or pickles, but would love to try those this year as well.
Pear vanilla jam!
Apple sauce! Apple pie filling, apple pie jam. I love to can!
I love to can jams from all sorts of fruits and pickles!
I've already canned tomato juice, salsa, and chili starter(can you say LOTS of tomatoes?). I looking forward to canning pumpkin and some home grown beef and maybe even some deer this fall. Wish me luck.
I'm sad--I recently moved from New York to Florida which means no pick-your-own apples turned into yummy apple butter to can! But since the growing season just keeps going here I can always keep canning up salsa and beets and jams galore.
I hope to be able to can apple butter and chutney. Would love to try these lids.
Grape jelly!
Chili!! What else?
I can feel fall in the air already! I'm most looking forward to apple butter. I'm intrigued by these lids and quite curious to try them, thank you for the giveaway!
I will be pickling and jarring beets. And, of course, you can never have too many tomatoes.
I have never canned before, so I want to start off slow and try Pickles and Jams.
Applesauce! Tomatoes! Squash!