Sacrificing quality lids for alternative metal canning lids can lead to spoiled food, food waste, loss of time and money, or even foodborne illness.
One recent social media post talks about reusing metal canning lids and adding the rubber sealing rings from the manufacturer of reusable plastic lids. This is not recommended! While it might seal, the seal will likely fail during storage. This combination is just dangerous. Those rubber rings are to be used only with the rigid plastic reusable lids.
Trusted, quality lid supplies are coming. They are working hard to get supplies back into stores. But the supply chain and transportation issues are affecting many items. Please be smart about safe food preservation!
Metal canning lids are not designed to be used more than once. The sealing compound has been permanently indented by the jar rim and using it again can lead to seal failure.
