Last image is me and the commenter who replied telling me they do this all the time. I shared this link: https://nchfp.uga.edu/faqs/general-canning/category/faq-canning
I don’t know how to help people like this. All of the other comments besides mine are positive and reinforcing the idea of reusing random jars.
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Same reason there are Floridians who don’t evacuate when they know a hurricane’s coming. “I’ve been here 30 years and it’s always turned out fine.” Yeah, it’s fine until it isn’t, and then you’re fucked.
Gonna find out the hard way that European and American single piece lids on store bought products are not the same.
My personal policy is to let them die if they’re that committed to it. Their usual argument is something along the lines of “my family has been doing it this way for as long as canning has existed and it’s been fine, I’ll be fine.” I could use that argument too, if it weren’t for the fact that almost an entire branch of my family tree was wiped out by apple butter just over 100 years ago. But except for that one batch, it’s always been fine.
It’s fine until it’s not. And when it’s not, people die.