Anyone use Mason Jars as a drinking glass? I thought it was a common thing but I asked my friends if they also do it and most of them said no
Mason Jars as drinking glasses?
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Anyone use Mason Jars as a drinking glass? I thought it was a common thing but I asked my friends if they also do it and most of them said no
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I do if there aren’t any cups around
Yes. I have a few with handles as well
I only use them as drinking glasses. Like I don’t have any other kind. On purpose.
You often find them used in wanky cocktail bars. They’re the piece of slate as a plate for the 2020s.
My family does. Back when Dukes of Hazard was on the air, folks thought of them as kind of white trashy. Nothing like drinking a quart of sun tea with lots of ice on a hot day however.
-edit In modern times, the tempered glass they are made of is much more sturdy than average home quality barware.
Every day. I also meal prep in them so that I can simply remove the dishwasher safe lids that I got from Amazon and even freeze some of the meal prep, knowing that I can take it straight from the freezer and put it into the microwave if I’d like to.
Love it
Yes. It keeps your drinks colder, and it makes them taste better too
It’s all I drink out of.
I do. Why not?
When I was a kid, it was a poverty thing.
Now it’s a hipster thing at gastropubs and a joke about country/western culture. See Will Forte sing about "Model T Fords & beer from a mason jar…" on SNL.
Are you including closing the lid between sips?
I use whatever i can lol
We do. Conscious choice too
We do in our home. I love the big ones
A local steakhouse uses ones with handles as mugs/ glasses.
Once in awhile I’ll make a big protein iced coffee in mine!
People who use them for hot coffee are best avoided.
Yes, my mom even found lids that fit that have holes for straws. I love it because we have a bunch after we finish the canned food she makes in them. Multi use.
I have a few and use them sometimes. I find they’re harder for dog tails to knock over.
My heavy drinker friends are served their drinks in a Ball canning jar because I’m tired of them breaking my $50/stem drinkware.
I have few specific drinking glasses – a couple of pint glasses, and a few proper juice-sized glasses (~6 oz.). But I have a ton more wide mouth mason jars that, if it’s just there and I want a bunch of cold water, why not? It’s a container and it holds water. What’s the big deal?
Yes, especially the ones made with handles on them like a mug.
Drinking glasses are too bougie for me.
Our drinking glasses are made up of basically any glass jar.
Ya found them cheaper than a glass set back in 2013. Still using as a drinking glass today.
Yes. I often buy the Classico pasta sauce and take the labels off, then use the jars for drinking glasses. I now have a set of 8. I do it because I can have a big glass for water with lots of ice this way.
We have some for drinking, and we also have some with handles. I don’t use them often. I use the ones with handles more often. My main classes are just these short drinking glasses.
I’m old, I do. It’s just convenient.
I used to, and still have some, but they’re just in a cabinet now.
I don’t see why not.
It’s just a glass container. I think finding reusing glass “weird”, is itself weird.
I do. I found a bunch in the attic when I moved in. One had a dead scorpion in it, so I call them scorpion glasses now.
Jelly jars mostly
I swear I read it as "Jason Mraz as drinking glasses" 3 times in a row
A little bit too big tbh
Yes.
I’ve seen that go in & out of fashion for a few decades.
For moonshine yes. For other drinks no.
It’s great but hard to come by now. I have one I hold onto for tea. Holds a lot and gets frosty
I drink wine out of it. Doesn’t tip over.
Soooo… That made me sound a bit tipsy…
One has been on my night stand all my life. I fill it with water every night.
I do! They’re sturdy, and the lip is smooth.
Yep, cabinet is filled with em.
All the time.
I use them for sweet tea. Or mixed drinks at home sometimes.
“Bye, thanks for the drinks! Sorry that you ran out of glasses and had to use jars!” -Linda Belcher
If you lived in the south and had relatives that lived in the boonies you drank from a mason jar or a jelly jar, hell even snuff containers were reused as juice/milk glasses. If it works in the south it gets used for whatever.
Hearing mason jar = PTSD
Lemonade in a Mason jar is straight up heaven!
I do
I do because they’re cheap and hard to break and my husband is very clumsy. I’ve known plenty of people who do, usually for similar reasons.
We have some, but we only ever use them to drink sweet tea and have fun drinking it
I’ve always used Mason or jelly jars. Why spend money on something I already have.
I have cute ones with handles, I usually use them for mixed drinks or rootbeer floats. My brother drinks out of pickle jars 🤣
I’ve got some tiny little jelly jars I use for sipping whiskey with friends, everyone thinks they’re cool
Better than the jelly jars with cartoon characters we used to have.
It’s very common in Seattle restaurants. One time, I almost drank a lit candle because it was in a mason jar! 😂
I drink almost exclusively from a Mason jar at home, the exception being coffee in a cup. I like keeping up with how much water I drink. BTW, I also use a straw.
Your friends are gaslighting you. Everyone does this.
I use bonne maman jars
We do a lot of canning, so we have a lot of jars just lying around. After about 4 or 5 trips through the pressure canner, we retire jars so they dont break. We use the retired jars for drinking.
Best for out on the patio with any thing in them
Mason jar has been my water glass of choice for the last 27 years.
I do but it’s because I grew up doing so.
We’re in our 50s and still use them. Heck. I even have a plastic peanut butter jar I use sometimes.
Mason and Ball I use mostly for dry goods like rice and beans. For drinking I prefer Bonne Maman.
Yup, I have more than I care to admit…
i do, i love mason jars, theyre peak
I really like them for drinking jars. They look cool have a nice hand feel. Also awesome if you need to mix anything they are perfect. Get different sized plastic lids and do it!
I have a few with handles on them. can still screw the lid on em too.
Why not? I know some pubs use those exclusively for beer.
Sometimes I use them for cocktails. Sometimes just for tea
I do, normal glasses don’t hold enough water for me.
Yes, of course. And they are great for storing things. I love putting soup in them and reheating them right in the microwave.
I don’t know where you might be from. It might be a Midwestern thing; my in-laws (from Illinois and Iowa) use them.
Drinking milk out of a mason jar make me feel like Napoleon Dynamite I love it
I prefer toilet bowls. It’s a doggo thing.
Plus gets my immune system boosted against most water borne illnesses.
And I can rat off skidbidi toilet as a verb.
I do. I found it’s a sensory thing for me, something about how the rim and threading feels touching my lips. I just don’t like drinking out of regular glasses
I remember a place called Cheeburger CheeBurger had them.
Yeah, I do.
All the time!
Nope. It became popular a few fears ago when the rustic theme became popular in homes. We avoided that trend tho
Yes because other glasses always break. The are very durable. We like the ones with handles
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
Yes
100% use quart jars for drinking glasses. We are a thirsty family.
i only use mason jars, in the summer , for iced tea/ coffee/lemonaide
i used bonne mamam jelly jars all year long……….. drinking, sugarbowl ( with a cover the ants can’t get in…spice mixes/rib-rubs…..salad dressing…….. and if i break one, there are plenty more where that one came from….
Yes all the time
Used to but not since I remarried
We use them for mixed drinks when we’re outside so we can put the lid on them and keep bugs out.
Every day.
I make my morning smoothie in a quart mason jar.
We call them Dixon jars in this part of the country.
Certain drinks require particular glasses, also some people prefer different cups ,it’s obvious if you only have jars for all drinks then your a very unusual person
Never — if I’m served a drink in a restaurant or bar in a mason jar I send it back and ask for a regular glass.
There’s a restaurant named Bob Evan’s that serves their drinks this way.
It’s a thing at both hipster and basic white weddings
Sort of. I’ve saved a few mason jars from Classico spaghetti sauce and drink my morning tea out of one. Holds 2 cups and fits my hand perfectly.🤣
I prefer the quart size wide mouth. It’s an easy to track water intake. I have different lids I got from Amazon. Some lids have a sippy spout, some plain screw lids, and some with a hole for straw. A dozen of them from Ace Hardware, Target, or Amazon and you got both beverage and food containers.
Absolutely
In hipster strongholds it’s the only thing that can be used as drinking glasses.
Yes. I use any kind of jar. I save jars. Perfect for workshop. Perfect for saving left over soup and so much more.
I use whatever for whatever. Drinks out of jars works. It’s a suitable vehicle for delivering hydration orally.
For about 20 years. Started and never stopped. Cheap, easy, reusable, recyclable.
Years ago I partied at a drinking establishment named the Mason Jar. Midland, Michigan, USA.
I use Alfredo and jelly jars. They’re mason jars. I love them
all the time. perfect for a liter sized glass of ice water with a wide mouth. super specific but it’s useful on a hot summer day
I’ve used a gravy boat a few too many times
I have a Mason jar leather cover and a sippy cup lid.
I used to own Mason jar mugs. They were manufactured with the handle.
I grew up in TN and live in Alabama and have always seen them used as wine glasses. I always assumed it was a poor southerner thing🤷♀️
No. But I also don’t wear overalls with one strap missing.
I’ve had Bloody Marys served this way
My MIL will use a Pyrex measuring cup
I used to have a Mason jar drinking glass. It was shaped a little bit different at the bottom from the standard Mason jar, and it had a handle. It still had the Mason branding on it, though. I think I’ve drunk from actual Mason jars before as well.
Mason jars and stolen pint glasses.
Nearly all of my drinking glasses are repurposed jars of one kind or another.
We do. I have giant mason jars as water glasses. It’s not great for guests but I love them.
I do and my fiancée always makes a comment “they’re jars, not cups!” I disagree. They are multi-functional!
ETA: I grew up with my family doing this, so it’s always been normal to me.
Yes. And sometimes the jars that spaghetti sauce comes in.
At home beer tastes better out of a mason jar than a glass. Fight me.
I only remember it being a thing at Po’ Folks back in the day.
I used to have some with mug handles on them.
Almost exclusively yes.
Yep.
My very southern wife introduced it to the household, and I laughed and laughed….
…anyway, now we all drink sweet tea out of mason jars.
Was a cafe fad in Sydney
Yup cupboard full of them best damn glassware ever
absolutely – I use them for drinking, storing leftovers and dry goods, seed sprouting, everything. They’re very versatile. And if I break one, there’s always more.
Yep. Whenever I’m drinking moonshine.
I do because that’s what my wife bought for the house.
I only use mason jars as my glasses, a regular cup is always weird to me when I have to use one. I use quart jars and pint jars. I like quart jars because you can put a lot of ice in there and still have a bunch of whatever you are drinking in there too.
I used to grow mushrooms and have a shit ton of jars around from doing that and the jars just gradually started making there way to the cabinets. When I would need a clean glass I would just grab another jar, and then I started liking the jars and so I threw out my regular cups. My grandpa used to drink out of mason jars, and also this older guy down the road we would always talk to drank out of jars so I guess its kind of a nostalgic thing as well for me.
There was a couple chain restaurants that did that. Can’t remember which ones now
Haven’t used one in years. There is one, all alone, Mason jar sitting in my cabinet.
Growing up all the neighbors had em. We had em.
Than one day they were all broken or just gone.
I do. They’re cute. They’re cheap, and they’re multipurpose.
I use the 8oz jars as kids glasses. They are small enough to have a little liquid without using a large glass and they are easy to replace. They are also fairly sturdy and don’t break easily.
No
I didn’t jump on that fad. It always seemed stupid to me as they’re not really much cheaper than bar glasses. It’s just cosplaying red neck.
Hate it. They are jars, not drinking glasses.
Yes.
I do. Saves me from having to refill a regular glass five times during the meal.
I do it. I use the wide-mouth 16 ounce jars. They’re SO much easier to wash than a ‘drinking glass’.
I do. Better than using plastic cups
When I was a kid, my mom saved the glade candle glasses and we drank out of those. Now, I save every decent looking jar and those are our drinking glasses. Nothing matches, everyone has a favorite.
I do
Yeah. Especially since the spaghetti sauce I like comes in one.
Everyone at my wedding drank from mason jars. Now my house drinks from mason jars. It also got me into canning, both water bath and pressure. Fun fact I use the mason jars to measure out things all the time.
It was a big thing a decade ago.
I do, the 12 oz are our regular drinking glasses and I have some quart jars for iced drinks like teas and slow-sipping beverages
Every ‘trendy’ cafe 10 years ago. Thank god that’s over
I never did until I saw the pretty turquoise mason jars and bought a whole bunch of them for everyday drinking glasses.
They probably don’t drink moonshine
yes
My girlfriend and I make our coffees in them. Convenient because they have measurements on the jars
I do. I prefer them
Mason jars and Bama Jelly glasses
No and I hated those theme restaurants that served drinks in them. The only thing I will drink out of a Mason jar is a little homemade corn whiskey.
Yes
We use mason jars, pickle jars, jelly jars etc.
Yes, those and we save the glass spaghetti jars to use as drinking glasses.
100%. Larger mason jars serve as both my meal-prep saviours as well as my water glasses.
I have rocks glasses, as well. But they just don’t slap right when you need a big chugging glass of water or a fun fizzy drink. Too small.
Sometimes I think to myself “I should go get some pint glasses” and then I remember that Classico spaghetti sauce has provided me with all the large cups I’ll ever need.
Tea is best drank from a mason jar.
All of my drinking glasses are mason jars.
I use one for wine/spirits. Love them!
It’s my favorite vessel to drink from.
I do; kept breaking glasses, not even by dripping them, one shattered in my hand and sized me up pretty good, apartment looked like a crime scene. By contrast, dropped a jar the other day and the damn thing was so sturdy it just bounced.
Quite a few restaurants have Mason jars with handles as their drinking glasses.
Sometimes when my other cups are too small for my drink
Yes,they’re convenient and easy to wash.
Yep.
Yes. I use the 32 oz once as my water cups at home because they’re cheap, cute, and hold a ton of water.
Everyone ik has a "the jar" everyone fights over using.
My "cool" friend in highschool family did this. Pretty resourceful if you ask me.
I think some restaurants serve expensive lemonade in them to make it look fancy. And I believe you get to keep the jar.
i know so many people who do.
I also know someone who uses the chinese soup take-out containers as drinking glasses. (The same ones that you’d get lemonade at the county fair? those.)
It’s all i ever want water in. Ice and cucumber slice. Keep it in the fridge. Very refreshing.
Hell yeah
When it’s there sure, normally no
No, the screw top lip is uncomfortable to drink from. I guess if you’re drinking from a straw it would be okay.
I do it. I like them. Good and solid.
We do