A week or so ago I ran out of pint sized canning jars during my canning and needed to run out for more. The only place that had any at all at that time was Walmart. I had planned to purchase Ball brand but they only had their own MainStay brand at $1 less. I bought 2 cases of the MainStay jars and took them home to continue my canning project of the day.
Upon opening the boxes the first thing I noticed was there weren't enough lids for the jars. One box was short 4 lids and the other was missing 1 lid. The jars seemed okay when I examined them, but the felt flimsy compared to the Ball jars and they were imprinted on the bottom "China". I try to buy American made as much as possible.
Well I needed the jars so I kept them and continued on with my canning. Whatever I was canning that day I was canning cold so no need to heat the jars. However I did wash the jars and rinse them with hot water. Lost two jars right off. They just broke apart.
I had enough Ball jars to almost finish the job, I did end up using 3 of the Walmart jars and luckily they didn't break.
I will keep the remaining jars for dry canning dehydrated food, but won't run the risk of any canning requiring heat.
Lately I have been reading/hearing a lot of negative things about Walmart products and how their suppliers must cut expenses in order to enable Walmart to offer the lowest prices such as using fillers, or cheaper materials and cutting steps to save money on production of goods.
We get what we pay for folks, pay cheap.... get cheap. I won't be taking any chances with the food I worked so hard to grow and preserve.
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