Oh how I love Mason Jars…let me count the ways:
- They make great drinking glasses – I love filling them up with ice tea or a big glass of water. (See Pioneer Woman’s recipe for iced coffee – yum!)
- They are super durable – Between gooping up the sides of glasses with my lip gloss and hurriedly putting them in the dishwasher (I’m a klutz in the kitchen), my original 6-pack is still in tack.
- They make great everything holders – I personally use one for a coin jar. I cut a slit in the top and drop in my spare change.
This is just the icing on Mason Jar uses, but a new use I came across the other day was a, “Doh! Why didn’t I think of that?!” idea: A Mason Jar Cocktail Shaker. Now, I’m not much of a cocktail drinker, so maybe that’s why I didn’t think of it, but a Brooklyn-based team designed a Mason Jar Cocktail Shaker that’s quite brilliant. Let’s look at their design, shall we:
The top looks super-simple, however the duo spent 6-months ironing out the design and patenting the idea. I love how the Mason Jar ring holds down the colander part. Since Mason Jars already have measurement markings embossed in the glass, this is truly a terrific idea.
Below is their Kickstarter campaign video (already 951% funded!) The vintage look and feel of the packaging adds to the concept and I can see this being sold in retail culinary stores.
How do you use Mason Jars?
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very nice, this should be good when we get a new house and start decorating the kitchen. Do you have a new theme? I love it!
We use them all over the place. I have 8 ounce ones that I use to store my spices. (I buy a lot of them in bulk and they are nicely and neatly organized. I use bigger ones for bulk spices like curry mix and taco seasoning.
I use them as drinking glasses and as storage containers for soup..put soup in while hot and pseudo can them so that soup will last in the fridge longer.
We also use them in the basement to store nails and screws, which makes it easier to find which size you are looking for than those little cardboard boxes they come in.
I was going to buy a pack of those giant ones for iced tea or lemonade. Those crappy ice tea dispensers that you buy in walmart for like $5 don’t work at all. The spout always tends to leak.
Those are my top 4. I love mason jars.