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A jar full of ideas

They’re so familiar to so many people in the South that it’s pretty safe to say that everyone has some, or knows someone who does. They are as essential to many southern kitchens as grits, lard, or Nana’s recipe for pan-fried cornbread.

Each one really comprises just three simple parts, yet each can accomplish some very complex things. Some use them as safes, holding a child’s life savings beneath the bed. Others see them as organizational tools, using them to separate nuts from bolts in the garage, or barrettes from rubber bands on the bedroom dresser. To still others, they are the keepers of prize-winning sweet pickles, figs or okra.

Yet for all it has meant to the American South, the Mason jar is the patented creation of a Yankee, one John Landis Mason, a tinsmith from Philadelphia.

And even though he could scarcely have imagined it, Mason’s concept of a shoulder-seal jar with a zinc screw cap has become a staple of American homes.

The product originally was intended for storing food when climate prevented crop growth, but the Mason jar has become a cultural icon with a utility only limited by the imagination.

From the traditional to the artistic, Mason jars make the southern scene in so many ways.

‘Best sound in the world’

Lynn Barlow didn’t grow up knowing how to can pickles in Richmond. It wasn’t a skill passed down to her by her mother or grandmother. In fact, she never gave the idea of pickling much thought until her husband, Joe, began running low on his treasured stockpile of sweet cucumber pickles made by his first wife, Margaret.

Not wanting Joe to go wanting of one of his all-time favorites, Lynn Barlow found a copy of Margaret’s recipe and went to work replenishing Joe’s stash.

Of course, as she soon learned, the trickiest part about picking up someone else’s recipe and running with it is not so much what the recipe tells you, but what it doesn’t. There were some lessons to be learned about what equipment to use and just how the process of sealing one’s Mason jars properly actually works.

“My first batch was an awful witches’ brew that was orange and almost ruined my pans,” Barlow said. She had learned one of the crucial rules of pickling: Do not use aluminum pans.

Metals — especially aluminum — can react with the vinegar in the pickling solution, making for cloudy or odd-colored pickles. (But be advised that these pickles are not dangerous.

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I haven’t missed any point. Although there may be a difference in build quality, this video tries to magnify it by the addition of levered mechanics which would not be possible in an actual real life situation. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, the force on the safe is equal to the mass x the length of the lever.

I’ve seen some very creative entries on houses and safes. A notable mention was break in on a McMansion in a rural area nearby. The family was on vacation so the thieves took a power saw to the aluminum siding, cutting their own door. Once in, they had plenty of time to work on the TL-15 in the basement that was recessed and bolted in concrete. Pros not smash and grab.

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