Jar Spouts

A few posts ago we talked about how Sunshine has been making soymilk from raw soy beans, and that process has really been working well for our family. We are sure we have paid for the machine already, and we like being able produce our own soymilk, which is a daily food item for our family.

We are hesitant to put hot liquids into plastics because of the potential of leaching of plastic chemicals into the food, and therefore into our bodies. For this reason, we have been searching for a glass container which would hold an ample supply of soymilk. We purchased a glass pitcher from Amazon, but found the spout not properly crafted for leak-less pour when the pitcher was completely full. It would do fine with the pitcher about 1/2 full, where the angle of the spout was ideal. Until trying the pitcher for myself I was not able to understand how some reviewers would complain about the pouring and others would say it did just fine.

I thought I would share with you are current solution. We found some screw on lids for normal canning jars. The lid pours well no matter how full the jar, and we have located small and large mouth lids. This has allowed us to use the 2 quart jars for our soymilk, which is an ideal size for our volume of use. I took a picture of these lids (note the gray lids with spouts while the white lids are solid) so you could get an idea of what we found. Here is a link to purchase the small mouth lids. These worked so well, we then ordered the large mouth lids as well.

We have found these lids are just what we have been looking for, and have been working well for a variety of liquid storage needs.