This is the best wide mouth mason jar for fermenting or canning pickles, tomatoes, sauerkraut, salmon, kidney beans, and pumpkin in the comfort of your home. Long lasting with upgraded soda-lime glass that is both food grade and lead-free. Each glass jar is textured in smooth hobnail fashion. Easy to grip but also brilliantly clear to show off the vibrant colors of the contents inside. Perfect jars for preserving large amounts of ready-to-eat food, meal prep, pickling or canning. Ideal for storing dry kitchen sundries like oatmeal, coffee, rice, candies, drinks like kombucha, iced tea, jams, flour and sugar. Protects from dust and going stale.