I’ve been a regular mason jar user for nearly two decades now. In addition to canning and fermenting food in them, I fill them with dry goods. I use them to pack lunches. I macerate fruit for jam in the big ones. They are filled with dinner leftovers, sourdough starters, smoothies, brewing kombucha, and more. Somewhere in our apartment, there’s a even a jar filled to the brim with LEGO minifigures.
Though there has been a steady increase in jar accessories and adapters over the last four or five years, to my mind there has always been a void in the marketplace. A one-piece storage lid that didn’t rust, was easy to clean, didn’t leak, and wasn’t prohibitively expensive.
Happily, the folks at Mason Jar Lifestyle have arrived to fill that void. They recently started selling one-piece stainless steel lids that are fitted with silicone seals that are easily removable for cleaning. They are leakproof, non-reactive, dishwasher safe, and so much more affordable than anything else I’ve seen.
They are ideal for salad dressings and vinaigrettes because the lids don’t leak when you give them a good shake. I don’t mind using them on my jars of dry goods because they’re affordable enough that I don’t feel like I need to save them for special things. And they’re easy to put on and off the jars.
The storage lids come in both regular and wide mouth, and are sold in packs of five. And if that’s not enough to meet your needs, Ryan and Maggie at Mason Jar Lifestyle offer discounts on higher volume purchases (buy 100 or more and you’ll get 40% off your order!).
You can also use the code “fij10” now through March 31 to get 10% off any order at Mason Jar Lifestyle. Right now, my favorite thing they sell is the silicone sleeve designed to fit the 24 ounce Pint & Half jars. Paired with a drink lid and a stainless steel straw and I am ready for iced coffee season!
For our giveaway this week, two lucky readers will each receive a five pack of the regular mouth stainless steel storage lids with silicone seals, a five pack of the wide mouth stainless steel storage lids with silicone seals, and one stainless steel sprouting lid and band like you see pictured above (because sprouting is fun! Look for a blog post on the topic in the near future).
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Disclosure: Mason Jar Lifestyle is a Food in Jars sponsor. Their ad dollars helps keep this blog running. All opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Those seals look really useful. And straw lids are always welcome!
I would replace several jars of dry goods in my pantry with these. Also, these would be great for my larger amounts of spice mixes.
I would use the storage lids for . . . storage! Living in a warm climate, we can get bugs and so forth in grain products, so I store them in quart canning jars. A one-piece, tight-sealing lid would be fantastic.
i’d likely use them in the pantry, for dried goods – we store all kinds of things in jars, including things from the dehydrator.
My homemade mango, cilantro, red chili salad dressing is just made for a non reactive, silicone seal, lid. Shake, rattle and roll makes this dressing happen for everything Summer! Spills stink. This finally solves the problem. Yah!
Well these are awesome! I already use my mason jars for so much (beyond preserving), this sure would make liquids easier to trasnport and store. I have a toddler w a baby on the way and I can imagine using my reusable jars more for meals on the go.
These lids look awesome! I’ll end ordering some soon.
I remember my mom growing mung bean sprouts for us as kids- I’d love to start doing the same!
I love to make salads to take to work for lunch in Mason jars, so the lids would work great for that or dressings for salads. The sprouting lids–would love to use those to start growing sprouts for salads!
I have been meaning to try growing sprouts since I never get them from the store anymore!
Would love this for bean sprouts!
I would love the sprouting lid. I’ve been looking for one for quite some time.
I’d use those silicone-lined lids for all sorts of liquid and powdered things, things that easily leak out of the usual two-piece lidded jars.
for dry goods storage and leftovers! definitely something I will invest in at some point!
SPROUTS!
Salad dressing and grain storage
I would use all of these constantly! I would love to learn to grow my own sprouts, salad dressings, and storage, storage and storage!
I would use the sprouts lid constantly. I already grow my own sprouts. Salad dressings would be greatwith the storage lids. My plastic lids leak….
I Would use hem for salad dressings and leftovers.
I would actually have something to make our salad dressing in instead of mixing it each time in the bottom of the bowl! I also think the sieve top would be great for a shaker jar with powdered sugar or cocoa for coffee. Also, we have a new low sugar honey garlic sauce that I’d love to store uncooked in the fridge then thicken at the time of need but couldn’t use a normal mason jar lid as I thought the soya sauce etc would rust it, that’s what I’d do, all planned out, awaiting winning! Thanks for the giveaway.
I like objects that I can recycle.
I’ve been trying to find a lid that will let me easily cold brew and strain loose leaf tea in a mason jar. The sprouting lid looks like it will work for that!
I love your giveaways. I would like to try to sprout as I have been buying them from the store and know that I can do this myself. Thank you.
Radish sprouts…..
We use Mason jars for everything so leak proof lids would be awesome.
It would be great to have some nice one-piece lids for transporting soup, making dressings, and storing brewed coffee.
I would love to use these for making dressings!
sprouts and spring!
Would love to try these.
Your apartment sounds like my house! I recently cleaned out my empties from the large pantry. There must have been 60+ of quarts, pints, pint and a half and half gallon jars! But wait, there’s MORE! I scored 2 cases of Ball pints at a thrift store last week for $5!!!! haha
I’ve been wanting to sprout again. Fingers crossed and GL to all.
Oh I love my mason jars and use them for everything. Those lids sound pretty cool as well as the sprouting top. Great give away, thanks!!
I’ve been meaning to start sprouting again. I just hadn’t come up with a way to not use plastic. I’m so glad to know these exist and I hope I win some?
I always use mason jars for my multiple salad dressings. Sometimes they leak when I shake them up so these lids would be great to avoid a mess in my refrigerator.
Just canned some vegetable broth & had 2 that didn’t seal. These would have been great to store them in the frig for a few days.
I use mason jars all the time; to store my dry goods, to pack my lunches, to ferment small batches, and of course to can. There would be plenty of good uses!
Hmm, leak proof lids….sounds like they’d be perfect for jars with infused vinegars and alcohol.
I have started “shrubbing” using the Ball plastic lids and they are not the best for shaking your jars. These look like a great solution.
These would be great for all my homemade syrups (I’m allergic to maple) and our salad dressings!
I love growing sprouts, I would use this for sprouts and jams.
Dry storage.
The metal strainer tops.
Being Indian we you a lot of sprouts in our cooking. These would be perfect. The silicone seals seem so much better for storing all the chutneys and pickles I make
So glad I have found your site! 🙂
These sound amazing! I would use them for sprouting and for storing things like the partially used quart of applesauce. I love my Tattler, but they aren’t great for storing things like that.
Probably for when I buy bulk oil or honey at the coop. The lids look great! And I’d love to try sprouting.
the silicone seal would be great for anything liquid, especially salad dressings!
I always have something sprouting for my parrot – these look great, something I’d definitely use a lot!
Love mason jars,have used them in many capacities over the years.
Curious about sprouting!
one piece lids look great!