I thought I would give it a try but not sure if you can freeze it in jars or how long it would last? Hi Laurrie! I have made homemade butter but have never frozen it. It should keep its quality for at least a year, from my understanding. Homemade butter… yummy! Hi Will. After breaking. Completely did that and 2 of 4 still broke — making a total of ten.
Tea and ifeel I am spending my life cleaning up glass. I am now wondering. If either chaga has a weird property or I have faulty jars. Have you found any brands better? Hi Art. What a bummer to have so many broken jars and wasted tea! Have you tried wide mouth pint jars? Kristen, I hate plastic so always freeze in glass. Pinning to my Freezing and Preserving board. Thank you for your most informative article. I have been freezing my juices in plastic bottles and really wanted to get away from that.
I will now be using glass bottles with confidence. One that has no chunks in it at all. Thank you! Hi Kristina! Hee hee! That can cause cracking. I hope that helps! I really needed this information— too many broken jars and too many quarts of precious broth ruined. Thank you so much for these tips. You are spot on with the tips! It is also important to realize that no all jars are freezer safe—canning jars must specifically state Freezer Safe. Freezer-safe jars make things easier, though!
Thanks so much for the tips! Have you had any esperience freezing in the small mason jars, the baby wide mouth ones with no shoulder? The shoulders are what usually cause jars to crack.
I hope your broth freezes well! I used this size to store breastmilk. Great to hear, Em! I make tomatoe sauce in batches and have been freezing in gallon bags.
Not very happy with the method so I decided to freeze in 2 mason jars. Did it all wrong! Filled to the top and capped.
Fingers crossed. Thank you for all the advice I will be sure to follow it next time. Hoping with you that your jars make it out whole, Michelle! I just made a large large for us batch of my own recipe Ragu. Great advice about the type of jar. I did cover the sauce with plastic wrap pressed against the sauce. Thank you for these steps. I regularly freeze applesauce and peaches in Jas, but I recently tried freezing home made broth.
Hi Clara. Boo for broken mason jars! Freezing jam is easier because the sugar keeps the liquid from expanding so much. I hope these tips help for the future! Hi Kristen , Very helpful article!
Thank you for sharing it. What do you think about putting each Mason jar in a 1gallon size ziplock bag also? Any thoughts? Does it add more pressure to the jar? Contained in a ziploc bag. Hi Sarah. Throw it all away.. If you freeze soups in the mason jars, can you then put them in instant pot to heat?
Assuming you would put them on rack with water in bottom. Hi Linda. Do you mean to put the jars of frozen soup in the Instant Pot? Anytime glass is really hot or really cold, changing temperature too fast generally causes it to break. If pressure is added, that seems like a dangerous situation. I would suggest thawing overnight and reheating after taking the soup out of the jar. For 2 years now, I freeze soups, beans, and other dishes in Glasslock containers tempered glass with plastic airlock lids with silicone seals.
I take the frozen meal in glass, remove the lid and put directly into the Instant Pot with a time of minutes, depending on the size and content of the meal. I use the same glass containers, week after week.
No cracks, chipping, etc. I have also used Pyrex glass containers as well. I have NOT used mason jars, nor am I tempted.
And if glass feel too risky to try…consider stainless steel containers. They are more expensive from what I have found than glass, but they would eliminate breaking concerns while you store them in the freezer as well as putting directly into the Instant Pot. Hi Teresa. Just be sure to follow the other tips, especially the one about not overfilling the jar. Best wishes! I just made apple butter and put the jars in the fridge to cool. I will loosely put aluminum foil on them as a lid.
Will let you know if this will work for freezing. I hope you have great success! Hi, Kristen! Thanks for this very useful post. Why are larger mason jars 32 oz not recommended for freezing? It seems as the 16 oz jar that everyone recommends for freezing holds too little broth. Hi Vicky! Expansion often causes jars to break.
If you follow the tips I have here, especially using a wide mouth quart jar, you should be fine. A little math shows that the ratio of surface area to volume changes as the volume increases even though the proportions of the sides are the same.
For example, think of a cube that is 1 foot in each direction. The cube has six faces and each face has an area of 1 sq. The ratio of surface area to volume for the smaller cube is For the larger, it is , which reduces to the equivalent proportion of The volume of the second cube is 8 times the volume of the first but only 4 times the surface area.
So relative to the available surface area, you would get double the expansion, which would be significantly more force pushing on the sides of the jar, unless the liquid is easily able to move upwards while the ice being formed displaces it. If the top were to freeze over before all the liquid in the middle had frozen, then you would get more outward pressure — some of which MIGHT be contained by the ice already formed, but ice, like glass, can crack. They are hard to find but have the straight sides of the pints and have a line that says fill to freeze.
With love-. Thanks, Suzi! They look perfect! Hope this helps Vicky, too! Hi Teresa! I checked with the USDA and other online sources. Most are saying that if the sauce has meat, it will last months in the freezer. I would guess that 6 months is a good guideline, but you can check with FoodSafety. Happy sauce making! I have a question. Does it have to be a canning jar? Also can you freeze cooked chicken like that?
Hi Misty! If you can to freeze cooked chicken, you could do it in a jar, but I think it would fare better if it was packed in there well and not exposed to a lot of air. Or you could add some chicken broth to the chicken in the jar to keep it from getting dried out. Hi Jessica. Yes, you sure can use wide mouth quart jars!
My scientist husband also taught me that if you tilt the jar slightly it helps relieve the pressure of expansion. Thanks for sharing, Lisa! It will also reach the shoulder first, that is what breaks the glass. There will be less surface tension, but so what?
I finally decided to research the question I posed, above, about whether the way microwaves heat might protect jars more than conventional heat. And it turns out, it looks like it may indeed confer some protection. Cracks caused by thermal shock are cause when heat is suddenly applied to a cooler piece of glass, and the areas within expand at different rates, and when the rate of expansion exceeds the strength of the glass, it breaks.
Microwaving heats in a different way, with the micro waves going into the object to be heated, so that all parts of the object are heated up. This is not a blanket protection, because a solid hunk of frozen stuff, oatmeal, for instance, will remain colder than the similarly heated glass exterior, but it may protect just slightly cooler contents. Likely it thawed enough to not be a problem.
I made a big batch of steel cut oatmeal in my slow cooker. I filled a case of regular canning pint jars halfway and froze all but one jar. This morning I took the refrigerated pint jar and microwaved it on high for two minutes.
No problem. Was I just lucky, or is their something about how microwaving and the way it heats that protected my jar? Lucille, can you clarify? Was your oatmeal frozen or refrigerated when microwaved?
It probably helped that your jars were only filled halfway if frozen. It is probably a good idea to leave a smidge more. I bought a number of the new Jarboxes, which are for storing canning jars. The upper and lower half are identical, so I put one half in the chest freezer, fill it with jars and fill below the shoulders and loosely cap , and the next day I will put the top on.
These would definitely be handy for storing frozen jars in a chest freezer. So glad you shared, Lucille! Welp, I could not muster up the courage to freeze my precious heirloom tomato sauce so I wound up cooking with it and froze individual meals instead, perhaps I will attempt freezing the sauce itself with a cheaper variety of tomatos next time.
Enjoy your frozen meals. Those are super handy, too! Thanks in advance! Hi Chad! But if anyone else has experience, they can chime in to be sure. I would NOT at all put a frozen jar in the microwave on any temperature. I am another who has had glass jars of broth break…. I have found that removing the lid completely and defrosting in the refrigerator rather than on room temp counter prevents breakage. But it can take a full 24 hours or more for the frozen broth to defrost, so you have to plan ahead.
I have also found that the thinner broth more watery, less concentrated is more likely to break than concentrated, thick gelled broth. In any case, if my jars broke at a room temp of around 70 degrees, then I would never recommend putting a frozen jar in the microwave. Thanks for sharing, Alice.
I never thought of that! Glad you chimed in. PS Last week I was canning pears and counting my jars a little worried I was short, and my husband ran to town…he calls to tell me he found some jars on sale…would I want some? The wonderful man came home with 10 cases of wide mouth quart canning jars!!!! I hope you enjoy all of your apple juice and pears.
I hope it goes well for you, Noah! Enjoy your tomato sauce! I just had a big fight with my husband about how he overfilled and not properly stored our glass jars containing our 4 year olds blended carrots for carrot soup.
It is such a long ordeal cleaning, pealing, chopping up and cooking the carrots only to have them destroyed by carelessness. My husband is notorious for being unorganized but, offered to help out and put away the carrots for me. I found it interesting how you mentioned how glass shatters in the freezer when it is filled to the brim. My wife wants to start making her jams and jellies but is afraid of overfilling the jars and causing a mess in the freezer.
I will keep this in mind as we search for vials to allow enough headspace in her jars without wasting any of the precious jams! I like to pre-cool my Waterford crystal beer glasses in the freezer. Then my guests can enjoy a really cold beer.
Have you heard of lead crystal glasses shattering due to temperature changes? Is lead crystal stronger than glass? Hi Lewis! I admittedly know nothing about crystal whatsoever.
Hopefully someone can chime in with their thoughts! I find your suggestions very helpful. Can you please clarify your suggestion to leave the lid a little loose and also to freeze the jar on its side.
Wont the liquid leak out if the lid is to on tight? I must have missed this comment! Test on the counter first, just in case! Oh no! So, put the contents in the dish, allow to cool to room temp, then fridge overnight, then freeze, then suck the air and freeze for longer term.
That should work! Thanks a lot for the reply. Unless I use a plastic or stainless steel container. Thank You, for all of the information on freezing in glass jars. I have been freezing sauces and soups in Ball jars for years, with out a jar breaking. Recently I have had several jars break. I have used the same freezers and methods to freeze the items. Thanks to you, in the future I will be sure to buy only tempered jars.
I had a couple of problems with a clean bottom jar break when thawing. Can you freeze glass jars of spaghetti sauce? Can you freeze mason jars with smoothies? Can you freeze soup in a mason jar? Can you freeze milk in a mason jar? Can you freeze broth in a mason jar? Can I freeze mason jars with metal lids? How can I avoid broken glass when freezing in jars? I followed the directions and my mason jar still cracked in the freezer. What went wrong? Can I freeze cooked pasta, rice, or grains in a mason jar?
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Plus broken glass badly contaminates single streamm recycling systems. Now let me show you the really cool homemade glass tiles I make using a smallish glas kiln in my garage.
All with recycled glass jars and bottles. Just a tip for the lids, plastic peanut butter lids fit perfectly onto mason jars. We cannot however recycle broken household glass window, mirrors but this is do to the different qality of this kind of glass often coated with plastics, etc.
Hi there! I did want to say, I have toured my local recycling facility, Recology, and they say it is okay to throw broken glass into the recycle bin.
They say the glass get broken in transit anyway. Search for:. Lifestyle Beginners! Skip to Content. Last Updated on September 15, Mason jars are the handiest little kitchen items to have around. Table of Contents. Related Posts. Share Your Thoughts Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. I love my beeswax sheets! Great for temporary storage, but probably not best for the freezer.
Thank you! Yes, I think most of us have learned the hard way. It works the same way. Not that cute.
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