The week Scott and I got married (nearly four years ago now!), my dad cut a giant hole in my kitchen wall and inserted floor-to-ceiling spice rack into a few inches of unused space. This had long been the wedding present plan, though looking back on it covering the apartment with drywall dust a few days before the big day wasn’t one of my better laid plans.
Still, I’ll never regret the mess, because I LOVE this spice shelf. Not only did it give me a bounty of additional storage space, the shelves are perfectly spaced to hold the canning jars that house my herbs and spices. Truly, it was one of the best presents I’ve ever received.
For the longest time, I thought I was the only one using slightly past their prime mason jars for this purpose, but in recent years, I’ve discovered that I’m very far from alone. And this spring, Ball finally recognized the fact that many of us use their jars in this way and released a product designed expressly for spice storage.
Meet the Dry Herbs Jars
I appreciate the slight rim on the edge of the lid, which means they stack with a sense of security. And finally (though this has nothing directly to do with their utility as a spice jar), I love the look of the smooth-sided four ounce jar. Would that they’d kick those quilted quarter-pints to the curb and sell these by the dozen!
Disclosure: Ball has provided these Dry Herb Jars at no cost to me. However, I am unswayed by this gift and my opinions remain my own.
I use all types of old jars for my herbs.These are beautiful! Thanks for the chance to win!
I use recycled spice jars and ball jelly jars for my spices. It eclectic to be sure. I’ve been promising myself spice jars for some time but haven’t found just what I want yet. These may be it.
Ohhh, love the shelf, but got to have those jars! They are perfect!!! Thanks
Canning jars of course!
Seems I use whatever cute jars I can find, like jelly jars, baby food jars, etc. Would love to have these.
Herbs from the garden are dried and stored in zip lock bags in the freezer.
I have a drawer in my mixing area where I keep my spices and the extras are kept in the freezer. I like the Ball jar idea. I may have to look into this, if I’m not your winner.
For Christmas I was given some spices in little plastic containers, they are in my freezer – they need to be in the jars.
I usually store them in small plastic bags in a drawer or in the store cnotainers they come in – however, planted my first herb garden this year and am learning every day to find better ways of doing things, healthier ways ! These little jars, which I haven’t seen before, would be very helpful in getting organized so YES, I’d be delighted to have them !
Your photos make me feel so much better about my “working kitchen” (as a friend put it) (wishing I could post a photo for your enjoyment)…love and peace
I store mine almost exactly like you do! I’ve also got a handful of vintage pyrex spice canisters which I’ve got on an open shelf. Love them!
I store store spices in smaller jars on racks inside my cupboard doors, in larger jars in a wood crate set in the kitchen island, and random containers tucked here and there in other cupboards. I love your spice shelves! so easy to see everything.
I’m ashamed to admit this, but I’ve been growing herbs for over ten ears and I’ve NEVER dried them. I’m afraid of mold. I realize this makes me a bit crazy. I also only recently discovered bulk spices…..like I said, ashamed. Maybe these jars will be a good jump start for me. :). Thanks for the giveaway! Oh, and I’d love to see that Pinterest board! Is it by invite only?
I re-use old spice jars and baby food jars for my spices.
Have been wanting to try these but I too keep reusing canning jars and saved jars. Love the space – I’m getting ready to have a rolling rack made for my spices.
I’ve just put herbs into my container garden. I’ve never grown them before. Up to now, I’ve just purchased herbs and spices from the grocery store and kept them in the jars they came in. I want to dry some of these new herbs and will need something to store them in. These little jars would be perfect.
Mine are a mishmash of store-bought plastic bottles, plastic baggies from bulk stores, and glass baby food jars (to hold the herbs I grow and dry in my own garden). I’ve been looking for a way I could streamline that jumble; these jars look perfect! Thanks for the great giveaway.
I keep my spices in whatever small containers I can find-some mason jars, for things like parsely (which there should always be plenty of!), but also some grocery store spice jars, and some old yeast jars and such. The stackability thing is definitely a problem with the various sizes of containers…
I bought a cheap plastic lazy susan for one of my cabinets. It has a second shelf, but taller spice bottles don’t always fit in the bottom part. Then I end of storing them next to the lazy susan, which doesn’t allow me to see what I have without hunting. It works for the most part, but lacks any flair.
I have one small cabinet entirely dedicated to spices and dried herbs. It is the absolute bane of my existence. I can never find anything on the top shelf without standing on a kitchen chair, and I often have an avalanche to deal with as the jars are all stacked one on top of another. I am a hopeless Penzey’s Spices addict.
These Ball spice jars look really nice.
These look so cool! I would love to use one for a salt cellar on my counter, but I may need an even bigger one because we use so much Kosher salt! My spice drawer is just a mess of plastic bags. I see a major overhaul in my future.
Mine are crammed into a cabinet too high for me to reach in original spice jars and plastic bags. Not good.
I had been using old spice jars; but finally started buying small decorative jars by the case that latch and have gaskets at the openings. The looks nice and make great gifts; but the don’t stack well (at all).
These are wonderful! I’m hoping we will be able to purchase just the lids at some point in time. I use jars to store just about anything that comes in a bag – noodles, spices, beans – it really helps to keep the cupboard organized.
I use old spice jars and TONS of older mason jars as well. Clear, glass, and stackable; can’t beat it!
Some spices are in magnetized tins stuck to a magnet board, others are jammed on a double-decker lazy susan by my stove.
My spices live in a combination of mason jars, and “the containers they came in”. Most of my spices are in mason jars, since I buy the big bags at the Indian Grocery. Herbs are mostly grocery-store, so they stay in their containers of sale. Inefficient, but sufficient.
I keep dreaming of having the time and money to go totally mason-jar. Or maybe metal, and magnetize everything, and hang it up… (tiny kitchens are tiny).
I have store bought herbs & spices in their original containers. Homemade mixes are in Tupperware type containers. I have a few little spice jars that hold spices bought in the bulk section or that came in the plastic bags.
I have a spice rack that holds about half of my herbs & spices. The rest are in various bottles and jars in a kitchen cabinet. I’d love to get them organized, and all in the same size jars.
What pretty jars! Mine are stored in whatever they came in, or sometimes in little throwaway plastic containers. I need to makeover my spice shelf.
My shelves are full of small canning jars, old spice jars that are refilled, little baggies… *sigh* It isn’t very attractive, but it works.
Those are so cool!
I use jars for EVERYTHING. I have plants growing in some of them, they are to-go containers, I keep pens in some, others are vases, others hold seeds or whatever…you are only limited by your imagination with jars!
Thanks, love the pics!
🙂 Terri
I have a few small glass containers for spices from Penzeys, and a pile of plastic containers, all stuffed into one level of a cabinet. Except the vanilla extract. That is in a big mason jar on the top shelf developing a stronger flavor everyday.
I buy cheap herbs from dollar store & dump the herbs & replace with the fresh ones I dried in my dehydrator. I use my label maker to mark the contents if different from label. 🙂
I use small canning jars and reuse other miscellaneous small jars to store herbs.
I leave store bought herbs and spices in their container. I did just purchase my first home, and I’ve been thinking of adding a storage area like you have for my spices since my kitchen is a galley kitchen with a solid wall. These containers look great!
I use old glass spice jars.
I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time! Right now my spices are in Tupperware containers (I sold it many years ago), but I’m trying to get away from plastic storage. These would be a great start! Thanks for the give-away!
I use pint jars and old blue Ball jars to store herbs and baking supplies such as flour, sugar and brown sugar. A much prettier way to encourage myself to bake more!
Generally I use original containers, but I buy most of my herbs & spices from Penzey’s.
AWESOME–way to go BALL! I recently have been shopping for bottles for my spices as I’ve run out of re-useable bottles. I usually keep purchased spice bottles and peel the labels off (if possible) and tape a new label on with my latest spice. I buy a lot of spices in bulk and have recently started growing and drying my own. My mishmash of spice bottles takes up a lot of room. Wouldn’t it be great to have them all organized and looking pretty?
When my Hun Bun built our kitchen cabinets, he measured and built the shelves (in what was to be my dedicated herb/spice cabinet) to fit 2 stacked half pint jars. I can also stack quarter pints and would love to add these. : )
Old mason jars, the kind with the bale wire, are my favorites. But I will use most any glass jar I can find. I love the look of my herbs and spices in glass….aesthetically pleasing!
This cracks me up because I store my spices in 4 oz Ball jars with the white freezer lids. I hate how they don’t stack and the quilted sides. This proves they can make them plain. Please, dear Ball….plain sides for regular jars? Love these!
My spice cabinet is work in progress. I have those tiered shelf stackers and realized that a brand of herbs I often buy (Simply Organic) comes in square sided jars that neatly fit on the tiered shelving. So, as I empty one of those jars it gets washed and relabeled and filled with herbs from a different source, like dill from the garden, or rosemary from the bulk herbs section at a local natural foods store. So, maybe one day, there will be order and symmetry in the spice cabinet. And of course, there are some things, like herbs for tea, that are stored in jelly jars!
I mainly store my herbs / spices in 2 or 4 oz. spice bottles and leave them on a bottom shelf. I have not seen these little jars from Ball – but I will be looking for them now.
I will be starting an herb garden this year for the first time and will be using mason jars according to size to store the dried herbs.
I love the look of these spice jars too! I’m planting my first ever herb garden this summer and have started settin aside old spice jars to hold the dry herbs I’m hoping to gain from the garden. These jars would be perfect!
My spices are a mess … and these would be great for the herbs currently growing in my garden!
I use canning jars a lot, but lately I’ve been saving the T.Marzetti salad dressing jars, and they work great! I like these new Ball jars though, because the can be stacked!
My spices are stored above my microwave and what a HUGE mess they are..I have some that are stored so far back I don’t even know what is there.
I leave the store-bought dried herbs in their original container but I would like to try drying herbs from my garden