Customer Reviews

Ball Plastic 8-Ounce Freezer Jars, 5 Pack

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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.

I love these jars for homemade baby food. I make big batches of food, pour it into these jars and pop em in the freezer. They stack and lock onto each other. I love the lids, they twist on. I wish they had them in 4 oz size. I just leave em in the fridge to defrost and use them 2 days in a row for feedings.

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.

These are BPA free, in case anyone was wondering. I looked on the Ball website before ordering, and it also confirmed it on the packaging. They should mention this in the description!

Anyway, I use these for just about everything. I bought a 30 pack, and just came back for more! I do a lot in bulk, and freeze small portions of pizza sauce, soup, etc. My recent discovery of homemade yogurt has been my biggest excitement for these little jars!

My kids love, LOVE fruit on the bottom yogurt. I hate all the sugar added. I started making my own yogurt, using my crockpot (just google crockpot homemade yogurt, it is super-easy!) and fresh or frozen fruit on the bottom, and the kids get SOOOO excited picking out their own individual container. They are easy enough for my kindergartener to remove the lid at lunch, but the seal is solid. Did I mention I am saving a small fortune on these individual yogurts, now that I can reuse these containers?

Back to these little containers though. The ones I already have are going strong after over a year of use. No leaking, stack perfectly, and they clean up beautifully in the dishwasher. For plastic, they are durable! I did break one when I dropped it on concrete while it had frozen soup, but that is the only one that has been damaged. These are a great value! I highly recommend them, and may be back for more if I find that 60 is not enough. : )

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.

I bought a pack of these thinking they would be nice, they seemed great, clear, screw on lids, etc, but they were really fragile. I made butter in one, and just smacking the side to get the lumps off cracked it right down the middle getting cream everywhere, and that was the first use. I know smacking it isnt typical protocol, but any of my other containers I can toss and throw and drop, and they are just fine. Another one fell from my counter to the floor, empty and got a hairline crack. I would be afraid to put liquid in it and freeze if they crack this easy!

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.

These ball jars are great - no issue with the product except for the fact that the lids came in bright green (Not blue as the webpage shows!). Other than the disappointing color difference the jars are good condition. They are perfect for storing leftover broth in the freezer or to bring yogurt in for lunch. The company had fast shipping.

The Ball Plastic 8-ounce freezer jars are great...work well for my freezer jam and worth the price.

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.