Seems like a shame to throw away and must have a use.
Depending on where you live, this may be the start of your plastic-free/no-waste journey. (You’d obviously need a place where you can shop plastic-free somewhere near you )
One possibility is that, any of these jars that were vacuum sealed in the first place, they can easily be re-vacuum sealed with a cheap vacuum chamber/hand pump combo. it’s not an appropriate preservation method for all the kinds of things that originally came in the jars, but will keep dry goods from oxidizing/etc.
Nice collecion you have there! Just got my hand on a large cardbox worth of jars. Almost all of them have caps as well. My plan is to slowly clean and fill them up, just like you did! Also I recently found out (by a foodwaste prevention program) that I have plastic-free shop not too far away from me.
Even if you don’t have a place like that, it’s still worth it to put the stuff in jars to prevent maggots from ruining everything.
I’ve slowly been adapting to this! I love having all my jars, it’s like living in a lab with specimens
I know you were probably joking, but as a PSA I will add that you NEVER dip any ‘bits’ or any body part in plaster in a closed, rigid container! 😬 A mold should be made with alginate, silicone, or other resilient material. The plaster is what would be poured into the mold afterwards, to make a casting. thanks.
Yep.
And if you knew it was bad, but didn’t know how bad:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/oct/12/girl-loses-fingers-school-art
Oh my god, TIL it is that bad
A school was ordered to pay nearly £20,000 in fines and legal costs today after a pupil lost all but two of her fingers in an art lesson.
The penalty was increased on the Giles foundation school in Boston, Lincolnshire, because staff failed to report the “catastrophic” incident, involving plaster of paris, to the Health and Safety Executive.
The fuck was it increased from, £200? Maybe I’m just used to settlements in the hundreds of millions of USD but that seems insultingly low, even for 15 years ago.
This person molds
Glass recycling is pretty good. Near complete recovery of the material. Plastic is basically impossible to recover, but glass and metals are generally very recyclable.
Just put it in the bin. Let the city recycle it. You’ll get it back as a beer bottle or another glass bottle like this one, or something else entirely.
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Cum jar?
One man one jar. Please don’t look it up.
So I went looking for the date 1 Man 1 Jar was released and I found out that it has an IMDB page with predictably silly reviews. Technically it’s NSFW but it’s all text.
But yeah you’re like 15 years too late for me lol.
I save them up all year, and come Christmas / Lunar New Year, I bake cookies then hand out jars filled with cookies to coworkers and neighbors.
It turns out that my wife and I consume exactly enough jam in a year to balance out the jar egress for the maximum number of social connections we can sustain.
If I have a spare, I might make mango chutney. It doesn’t need to be vacuum sealed if you just make one jar and eat it reasonably soon.
I suppose you could engineer them to be solar garden lights too. There ought to be enough room for the panel on top of the lid, a battery and circuit on the underside, and then you hang an LED in there.
Do you happen to have a recipe for that mango chutney?
Ya know, for a friend…
There are two well known uses for a jar on the internet. You don’t want any of them.
I once saw a video or a guy had a jar. I’m going to leave it a surprise but he put it somewhere. Maybe you could do that?
In the bin?
Definitely in a chute
You know all those little bits and bobs you have laying around, like screws you might use one day, a pen that probably has half a page of barely visible words left and those paperclips with the ripped box? Them, you put all of them in there, it will be frustrating to get what you need out, but it will be worth it.
Put a piece of food in, take a picture every day for a year and post it in youtube.
Why, uh. Why was that your first thought.
Life, uh, finds a way.
Wash it, pour boiling water over it, put hot jam or other preserves inside, it will hold all winter. Just make sure the lid is concaved when the jam cools down - that means it seals well.
Wait, wait, wait!?! Wash it, then pour boiling water over it? Then put jam or whatever in the jar and it will be fine?!?
I’m not sure you’ve got all the steps in the correct order.
Instructions unclear, jam stuck in penis.
I assumed the hot water was to temper/test the glass so it doesn’t shatter when you pour in the hot jam
You have to boil it after the jam is in there, at least that’s what my mother used to do.
Make one of those sealed jar terrarium ecosystems.
I use them for grease after cooking. Or for drinking glasses when I can’t be bothered to run the dishwasher.
This is how I store my collection of randomly sized screws, nuts, and bolts.
Collect loose change maybe
