Over the weekend, Scott and I got a new TV stand. This led (as new furniture so often does) to a massive cleaning and reorganization spree. Drawers were emptied, DVDs and games found new homes, and I discovered a cache of unused gear from site sponsors in the past.
I didn’t have a giveaway lined up for this week, and so decided that instead of skipping the week, I’d give away a grab bag of goodies from the past. As it stands today, the lucky winner will get an OXO cherry pitter (by far, the best hand-held pitter I’ve ever used), a Mason Tap, one wide mouth Cuppow in orange, a pair of Coffeesocks filters for a Chemex, and some dissolvable jar labels from Ball Canning.
Because I’m still in clean-up mode, I’m certain that before the week is out, I will find even more jar-centric treasures to add to the winner’s box. So enter early and often, because this is going to be a fun one.
The “jar grabber” when lifting jars out of the pot. But dissolving labels sure are handy!
My grandmothers cannng pot!
Thank you for the great give away. I would love to win this.
Please send my way.
Just started canning/preserving and any of these tools would be a great addition to my small collection!
Always fun to give stuff away. Tools are the best!
I love the Ball green plastic lifter basket fro small batch canning.
For years I canned with our a jar lifter. I’d use wooden spoons to lift the canning rack up and grab jars with pot holders or dish towels. When I finally bought one I thought why did I wait! Love my jar lifter!
Favorite accessory are the pads I put under my hot, filed jars to cool. They take a beating for me each year! They are normally for putting wet dishes on to dry, but I discovered they work really well to protect my table from hot jars!
My favorite would have to be my jar lifter.
Never heard of dissolvable labels. I’d like to try them.
Favorite is the blossom trivet!
I love my Chemex! I didn’t realize there were reusable filters!
My mom gave me a ball jar opener – it has been a lifesaver for me lately.
It would have to be my fermenting lids.
My Masontops fermenting lids. I love having kimchi, pickled oepoers, pickles, and sauerkraut on hand!
what a great giveaway!
my most used tool is a stainless steel canning funnel! i use it almost every day!
I don’t know if I sent the first comment because it was open on my screen for a while. I was saying that I love that find the goodies to share. I got the Cuppow lid several years ago and it’s my favorite thing for smoothies and water for our mason jar glasses. I’ve baked a lot so I really like my rubber spatula to scoop out icing.
Couldn’t live without a funnel. And I love my magnetic lid wand. Would live a cherry pitter!
I love my Ball drinking lids. I use a 24-oz jar to drink from most of the time, to help me drink more water every day, especially when it is herbal teas.
I love all my canning gadgets. (Or cooking gadgets of any kind for that matter.)
Jar-lifter is great!
I like the straw tops (usually without the straws) makes for easy pouring of some things too. As well as an adult-sized sippy cup for the accident-prone!
For small recipes I love using my mother’s set of enameled cast iron saucepans. They were a garage sale find from many years ago and are constantly in use.
favorite canning accessory – painter’s tape. 🙂 makes it easy to label things in the fridge, like that half-jar that didn’t quite make it into the canner.
Where I live there’s lots and lots of assorted fruit trees. Cherries are favorite, we get something called Utah Giants which are absolutely huge. Would love that cherry Pitter and the rest of the giveaway would be a bonus
I am so happy to have purchased a jar lifter! I was using tongs with rubber bands around the tips before now, and it was soooo very unsafe. All kinds of near disasters…not what you want after putting in so much work making a pickle or preserve, so now I can can much more safely!
Use an old cherry pittter frequently as Flathead cherries are my favorite canning project in the summer.
My stainless wide mouth funnel!
I use an old plastic, pink chopstick to stir out air bubbles before canning. It’s my favorite go to!
My favorite tool is the wand with the magnet at the end!
Gotta love spring cleaning!
For canning – I mostly have basics – but I love my tea strainer 🙂 I put spices in it instead of messing with cheesecloth bags 🙂
i just wish that when I reorganize that I could manage to keep it that way!
Actually my favorite jar accessory are the canning jar rings. So much a person can do with them. Using them s molds for making desserts and using for making several muffins one imeis favorite way of using them jar rings.
Thank U 4 this giveaway opportunity
I like plastic screw top lids from Ball to go on canning jars. Makes using them for storage even easier.
I don’t have a lot of canning accessories, but the year I did cherries without a cherry pitter, my trusty paperclip was the thing I used most. I don’t think my funnel has even gotten that much use.
my favorite is my Calphalon Saucier – a big wide skillet/saucepan that is great to eveporate sauces and jams
I do like my 1/2 gallon mason jars…I use them for storing just about everything!
Sounds like a treasure trove. I’m in.
What a fun grab bag of prizes!
I use a recap for my mason jars all the time. It makes pouring so much easier.
I love my jar lifter although the funnel is a close second!!
I like this giveaway from the depths of your “storage areas.” My favorite tools are the funnel and the “jar tongs.”
Funnel, for sure. I use that sucker for so many things.
I love my lid lifer. No more burnt hands,
My favorite accessory is a handmade jar cozy. It was a gift from one friend, who custom ordered it from another. Lots of love in it!
My funnel gets used the most of all my canning supplies.
Love, love, love those labels that dissolve! I find them hard to track down, so I get excited when I find them.
I love my dinged up canning funnel that I got at a garage sale a few years ago. Prior to that, I’d done everything without a funnel and it makes me SO HAPPY each time I put it to use and watch the “extra bits” pour into the jar rather than down the side. Should’ve gotten one about 10 years sooner!
My favorite canning tool is the jars themselves. I’m getting a little famous for loving them and I have over a hundred from very old ones to new pretty blue ones. What i really want is some Weck ones, but I haven’t bought any yet.
How nice it would be to get a surprise in the deep dark days of January!
My favorite tool is my stainless steel chopstick. I use it to get all my jar bubbles out.
Favorite and most used would be my funnel and 4th burner pot.
My funnel is my favorite canning tool! Thanks for an awesome giveaway!
My favorite canning accessory is my Ball electric waterbath canner. It frees up so much space on my stove, and lets me spread out on my countertop when I’m filling the jars.
I’m in need of coffee filters. This will save me from having to sew some
I have a great cherry pitter. It has made cherry processing much more accessible!
Favorite? Well. Probably the two things most missed if they disappeared would be the funnel and the jar lifter. Those must be my favorites just because they are least easily replaceable by something else.
Tongs are my most used tool.
When we (my mom and I) started canning again I came to your site and looked up all the tools you recommend. I then went and bought the red ladle you said was your fave, you were right, it’s fantastic, gets into the “corners” to get all the stuff out of the sauce pan. I also couldn’t live without the tool that tells me if I have the jars filled to the height I need them, I have terrible natural gauges for that, lol. Thanks for the giveaways!
I have a small ladle that I use for filling small jam jars. It is such a great size I don’t have to use a funnel.
My metal funnel is probably my favorite tool.
I love the jar lifter. I used to use these big rubber glove things that didn’t work well at all!
My favorite most used tool is the Ball tongs to lift jars out of the pressure canner. I use it all the time! 🙂
I am a huuuuge fan of the ball lids that turn a mason jar into something that holds a straw for drinking. And I also am looking forward to the 2-in-1 jar lids you posted here- Masonables?
Probably the jar lifter! I just always enjoying lifting jars out of the canning pot. 🙂
My funnel makes canning less messy.
My most used item? Jars! Lots and lots and lots of those around here. And I always stock up on jelly jars when I find them cheap (under $.25 each) since those tend to be given away and not always returned. My second most used? My Tattler lids since you can’t can without a jar and a lid 🙂 Love my canning equipment…a big reason I like the house we live in was that it had lots of shelves already made in the basement!
My funnel-canning before I purchased one was quite a messy experience.
I love my jar lifter!
Have you tried the January Cure through Apartment Therapy? Your cleaning spree reminded me of that.
Favorite tool is definitely a wide-mouth funnel!
Jar lifter!
Most used item? Probably a canning funnel. So useful, even when not canning.
I don’t know about favorite, but the “I never realized how wonderful it was until I had one” item is the wide-mouth jar-lifter thingy.
We love it when you “clean house.”!
Love a good cathartic cleaning!
I love this cherry pitter! My computer labels for making cool labels is my favorite tool because my handwriting is illegible.
I love my wreck jars & re-cap lids.
My jar grabber……
For actual canning, the jar lifter. I’ve had mine for decades. and it was old when I got it. Just a simple, perfect tool.
I never tried the dissolvable labels, but if they are true to their word, they will make reusing jars much easier. I am also interested in the different lids.
Those labels are wonderful, I struggle with the other ones.
I would use all these items
I use the dissolving labels on so many things. They wash right off.
My most used tool for canning and preserving is my trusty sharpie… I have to label everything! I also have to mention my cellar storage room. I’ve had a small room for canning storage in the last two places I’ve lived and that extra space is priceless.
My favorite is the jar lifter and the magnetic lid wand.
My favorite canning tool is my funnel. I use it all the time even when I’m not canning.
I love a variety of jars!
I can a lot, but my toolkit is pretty bare bones. One of these days I’d like to get some pickle weights for fermenting.
Thanks for doing this.
Really would love to try the mason jar tap!
I love my narrow spatula. Not too bulky.
Honestly, one of my favorite things are the storage lids for canning jars. I just the jars for so many “not canned” things and they are much easier to use and clean.
my favourite canning accessory? my husband! haha! no really, I love when he cans with me, it makes it so much easier. i love using tea bags for my spice blends when i’m making beets!
The cherry pitter is a must! I live in Wisconsin and our Door County cherries are my favorite.
While I don’t have a Chemex, I can use those coffeesocks for all sorts of straining!
My favorite canning tool is my jar lifter.
Really curious about the Coffeesocks filters – love my Chemex but go through a lot of filters. Pretty sure I could put everything to good use!