Ball Plastic 8-Ounce Freezer Jars, 5 Pack
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Ball Plastic 8-Ounce Freezer Jars, 5 Pack
Customer Review: freezer jars
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought these because I do a lot of freezing of extra milk or fruit or vegetable juices that I make up. I wanted something that would give me a 'glassful' of juice or milk thawed out at a time. I liked what I got. I got a new juicer and the carrots that had been waiting for me to juice were going bad. I had a lot of carrots to process in one day and I needed to store them in the freezer. These were perfect! I got all the carrots processed and put in these little jars into the freezer and saved a lot of money by not having to throw out carrots or carrot juice that I couldn't drink in one day (fruit and vegetable juices that are fresh juiced need to be drank the same day if in the 'fridge.) I just finished off the last 8-ounce jar of juice today that I had stored in the freezer. I'll be repeating the process next week when I get more juicing carrots in 15 pound bags. I'm grateful to have these jars from Ball for all my freezer needs. There is also a 30 piece set of freezer jars by Ball also available that I will be buying soon. I found that when I figured it out, those would be more cost efficient for my needs. But these are great if you don't have allot to freeze. I highly recommend these.Customer Review: For more than food
Summary: 5 Stars
I work out of a drill bag, and screw boxes, either paper or plastic, tend to fall apart, and picking 100 screws out of a satchel isn't the funnest chore. After looking around a local branch of a nation-wide super center franchise for storing various fasteners, I tried these containers.
They stack OK when on a flat surface, they're slightly top-heavy being a little too 'thin' for this use. Construction is fairly solid, and best of all for me, the lid screws down nice and snug. Having a label printer and some clear tape adds the ability to sort and identify at a glance.
8 oz is a perfect size smaller boxes of screws, about 50, and five for around $3 is hard a hard deal to beat.
Update - 2009.Oct.13
After several jobs with these containers in my cloth tool-bags, they've proven to be completely inadequate for what I intended. The plastic is not designed for travel with other items pressing on them in their not-full state. They crack & split open, dumping everything that was in them out of course. Would still be excellent for cheap, non-portable storage.
Because of this, I would change the rating to a 3 if I could.
Customer Review: Great product!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of those rare products that is very cheap and yet well-made. I like to make fresh juice for drinking later. Since juice doesn't stay fresh long, you want to seal it really well, preferably in a canning jar with an airtight lid. Since canning jars are rather heavy to carry around, I tried these. Heck, for pocket change, I'll try anything.
They're perfect! While the little lid looks flimsy, it actually provides such a solid seal that I can bounce it around in my purse and it does not leak. What's more, my homemade juice tastes like new when I crack it open, better than a glass jar. They are made from durable #5 plastic, which is one of the re-usable types least likely to leach bad stuff into your beverage. After I drink my juice, I seal them back up so they don't dry up and that makes it a breeze to clean it when I get home by just running a quick sponge over it. I've used them for juice, salad dressing, yogurt, sauces... nothing has stained the plastic yet. I haven't tried them in a microwave or dishwasher; I don't know if I would because I'd hate for the lid to warp.
Customer Review: Plastic Freezer Jars
Summary: 3 Stars
I do a lot of canning and freezing vegetables from our garden so I bought the 16oz version of these plastic jars for freezing corn cut off the cob, homemade pizza sauce, tomato sauce, etc. The tops were a little hard to get on straight for a good seal. I did like how I could stack them in the freezer. However, the other day while getting something out of the freezer, one of the jars fell out and cracked. I had to throw it away. This could get quite expensive. So, just beware that when frozen the plastic gets very, very brittle.Customer Review: NOT an 8 oz container
Summary: 3 Stars
These may be 8 oz containers, but not when you put the lid on it. It holds about 6-1/2 oz., to allow for expansion in freezing. A little annoying, when I bought these to freeze one cup of chicken or vegetable broth, since I make my own, to add to casseroles or for cooking rice. Also the fact that they crack very easily as another reviewer commented. They do stack well enough, but that does not compensate for the other issues. Look elsewhere if you want an accurate 1 cup container.