/ck/ - Food & Cooking

People make their own tea instead of spending a buck on an Arizona Ice Tea. I started making my own, but I put in a reusable water bottle.

People have been drinking out of mason jars for a long, long time.

>>4606818
Did you recently move to the south?

Where have you been in the past century?

It's been common as fuck for a long a time time here in the South.

Don't know about you yankees, though.

>>4606834
>>4606840

No, the opposite, Minnesota.

>>4606824

There's no reason why you can't put your homemade tea in a proper container that isn't prone to shatter if someone bumps your bag or something.

It started with restaurants. The kind of annoyingly precious restaurants that use words like "housemade" and put unsettlingly redundant descriptors such as "fresh" in their descriptions of various ingredients. They started serving drinks from mason jars. Then mason jars became somewhat chic. Now you see idiots carrying them around. The same idiots who carry around those notebooks that say "field notes" (because, notwithstanding the fact that field notes are made of absolute shit paper, we need to be insufferably cutesy with every last goddamm thing, even our notepads)

Anyway this brand of trendy was known as "twee" and is now considered somewhat declasse outside of flyover land

>Minnesota

oh that explains a lot

>>4606840
I live in New England and you can buy mason jar shaped glasses, they've been around for a while

I've seen lots of students do it and I fail to understand why.

>>4606818
>fairly cheap
>has a cover
>wide-mouth for covered bottle
>handy sizes
>good quality glass
>>4606849
I've dropped mason jars off counters and they didn't break when hitting a hard floor. They're surprisingly durable.

>>4606885
>mason jar shaped glasses
Jesus christ those are just fucking mason jars.

I see people doing it in empty jars of prego sauce and it makes me cringe cause i'd imagine they're drinking tomato flavored water.

I drink my water out of an old pasta sauce jar every day.
It holds a lot and is harder to knock over than a regular glass.

But dunno why you'd carry a mason jar around, seems clunky as fuck. Guess it doesn't matter if you've got a bag.

>>4607177
>what is washing

>>4606818
I've seen a couple restaurants do that now. I ink it looks cool for the summer.

>>4607174
No.

>>4606818

It's a Rural/Southern throwback that's become popular now.

i drink water out of this. only need to refill it every couple days :)

anyone who drinks out of a jar can just fuck off now

Go to the store and buy a glass for a buck instead of acting like a retarded child

>>4606818
I've been doing that for 30+ years. It is great for when you need transport it. I still remember riding on the back of the tractor as my father brushhogged the farm. My mom would bring us both mason jars of ice water with lids on them.

>>4606818
>being so new as to not remember MJG

>>4607319
I still don't understand all the butthurt around MJG.

>>4607339
do you understand the butthurt around 100bowl? then you understand the butthurt around mjg.

>>4606849
Minneapolis? My brother lives there right now, and he tells me it's become so hipsterized since we grew up there.

>>4607343
I've never heard of 100bowl.
I'm guessing that's a good thing?

>>4606849
>There's no reason why you can't put your homemade tea in a proper container that isn't prone to shatter if someone bumps your bag or something.


>but I put in a reusable water bottle.>>4606824


Please read posts before posting

This is a hipster thing. In the city I live in, every fucking fake-glasses wearing, scarf-wrapped "indie" fag carries a mason jar on the street filled with ironic-juice.

>>4607339
some guy used to post his little toys and milk in jars a couple years ago

I took control of the situation and chased his ass out of town

>>4607358
>I took control of the situation and chased his ass out of town

He went overseas for military purposes.

>>4607367
Wait, if he went to the Middle East because of 9/11 et al...OPIATE WAS THE ONE BEHIND 9/11!!!

>>4607367
that is what I told him to say

>>4607372
0/10 I'm a patriot

I use a jar sometimes to drink out of in the house, fuck it, why throw them away when they make great cups and storing devices?

>>4607188

Mason jar glasses with handles
I don't even

>>4607415
You can get handcrafted leather handles for your mason jar mugs. For the super-hipster in your life.
>http://www.holdsterusa.com/

I will have to destroy the first person I see walking down the street with one of those. The horror.

I don't see the problem.

Shape of a cup? check
Washable? check
Resealable? check


Quite versatile really. Oh, and I actually do own some of those with the handles on them. My friend was giving them away because he didn't want them.

>>4607415
Pretty sure those are common for jams/jellies/preserves.

>>4607354
>Please read posts before posting

The fact that that poster uses water bottles was an afterthought to talking about why people might use glass jars, which is the thing that I was responding to. Please gain reading comprehension before responding to posts.

a glass container may provide a different taste to a beverage because glass is nonreactive and has a smoother texture on the lips. but given the fact that glass also weighs a shitton, i don't see how jars are effective for beverages on the go. For snacks, however, a rigid container is always a plus because it keeps your snack foods safe. but you could still use plastic in that situation to the same effect.

>>4607518
On the glass vs plastic thing, I like glass because it doesn't taste like anything. Plastics taste like something.

drinking wine out of an old pickle jar right now

>>4607592

I like glass because it's easy to see and feel that it's clean...most plastic lacks that smoothness and transparency.

>>4607444
One of my friends makes those (not that brand). I always suspected he was a hipster, thanks for the confirmation.

>>4607678
Noice. I hope it's something classy like Carlo Rossi or Franzia, perhaps even some Manischewitz(though I'm not much into exotics).

>>4607288
that is disgusting
your breath is probably horrible

>>4607506

This, I've seen the ones with handles in use for jam and jelly at my local bakery outlet store. I've bought the product, enjoyed the jam and jelly, and have used those with handles for drinking and such after was done with the jam and jelly.

Mostly hyped up paranoia from media about chemicals in plastics leeching out after repeated exposure to hot and cold from washing and refrigerating or freezing. Just supplying an answer, don't shoot the messenger.

It's because it's been depicted in television a lot in the last 5 years. Seriously, that's why.

>>4606824

>instead of spending a buck on an Arizona Ice Tea

Arizona drinks are not tea

I once went to a coffee shop and witnessed some hippies bring in dirty untempered glass jars and asked to have them filled up with hot water. They lied about the jars being tempered and the shattering glass could have cut the barista.

People make shit in mason jars and drink from them.

I do it wth my homemade hooch because I can't be fucked to get bottling shit just yet.

>>4607709
Enjoy your BPA, aka estrogen infusion.

Also, enjoy never being able to grow a proper beard.

I have a jar with a handle and lid I use to drink from because it has a tighter seal than water bottles and it doesn't make the water taste of plastic. I'm pretty sure jar drinking is common in the South of the US, and in Canada, so it looks like it is just yankees who don't do it.

I use a jar for tea, and I have a Aquapak paper bottle for water.

>>4606849
Heavy glass bounces.

>>4606818

This happened in the dinner scene for The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

You can burn my house, Steal my car,
Drink my liquor From an old fruit jar.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Don't you step on my blue suede shoes.

>>4607182

>implying regular dish detergent will get rid of garlic or onion flavors

Maybe after like 50 washes.

>>4607347
I grew up in North Minneapolis. I'll take Uptown hipsters over N Mpls scum.

>>4607937

>>4607938

>>4607914

Soak inside of the jar with water/lemon juice mix. rinse and wash with water/baking soda.
rinse and wash one more time with water with a few drops of vanilla essence in. final rinse, dry.

you're welcome.

>>4607415