Is the main reason most of the jam jars I see are shaped like this
instead of like this
so I can get my fingers and the handle of the knife all sticky [when I get to the bottom half of the taller jar]?
... or is it simply a matter of me expanding my horizons ... checking into different stores??
Methinks the bean counters at the jam factory figure folks will toss the jam jar before they get to the bottom, avoiding your aforementioned sticky fingers & knife
Just get a scraper to get out those last little goodies without the mess of sticky fingers and/or knives. amazon.com/OTOTO-Design-Platyp...5&sr=8-64
of all things I had a jar awakening a few weeks back--the better half still cans with mason jars--she shied away from the wide mouths because of pricier lids --but had plenty of wide mouth jars without canning lids. anyway, If I Get a squeeze bottle condiment that -- works like a tube of toothpaste--I like to -cut it open and use various spoons and scrapers to remove the contents and put them in a spoon accessible container.a regular mason jar in a pint size is hard to get to the bottom--But I stumbled into the fact that the wide mouth pint size worked perfect with a teaspoon or table spoon--So i go to ebay and order a few 1 piece wide mouth lids-- it beats the tupperware crowd
wierdly --the jars have somehow made this topic'' show up''in conversations like a "meant to be" twigh light zone deal--
I have tended to say---It would be better for the planet I the whole world went to recycled bring your own jar--but I am sure not a lily white conservationist
Edited by - Tractor1 on 12/02/2024 11:29:12
In the UK in my experience standard jam comes in the first type and fancier more expensive stuff comes in the second type.
I usually throw my jelly and jam jars away at around halfway.
That's about when they start growing mold.
I'm talking about the bottom half, not the dregs.*
Sherry, we're away right now; we have a spatula at home that works pretty good, but then the mess is on the shaft of the spatula rather than the knife ... I don't see that much has been gained.
* - See!! Probably not the best word, but I just knew when we learned that word in our Grade 5 or 6ish "Words Are Important" vocabulary book that it would come in handy some day. 
Is it a hold over from the old days when home made jam was sealed shut with a layer of parowax on top, instead of a physical lid ? A tall skinny bottle would require less wax on top. My honest opinion tells me this one is just another pathetic display of human greed. I've noticed something similar about the winter skin moisturizer bottle in the bathroom. The pump on top has quit pumping because the pipe doesn't reach the last 1/2 inch at the bottom of the plastic bottle. If I remove the pump, turn it upside down, and bang it on the counter all of a sudden I get generous gobs of moisturizer.
In my experience the widemouth jars are slightly more expensive than the standard taper mouth jars, which adds up when you make millions of them. Speculation, maybe that's why they use them.
... maybe more expensive because they make significantly fewer of them??
I'm guessing that with the technology that's available today, whatever processing/sterilizing (?) that's needed could be done even if they were in containers shaped like the ones for yogourt, soft cheeses, margarine, etc.
