Before refrigeration was a household staple, home canning and pickling were popular forms of food preservation. While Weck jars are attributed to Johann Carl Weck from Germany, he actually only bought ...

I use a lot of jars in my house. I'm not one for formal canning or anything like that, but a good jar can do so many things in the kitchen. I use jars for storing pantry ingredients, as a vessel for ...

In the 20th century, the practical art of canning got a bad rap. In comparison to the newfangled, foil-wrapped bricks of Birdseye, canning looked as old fashioned as Auntie Em in a root cellar. But in ...