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I bought these to ferment cucumber pickles in wide-mouth pint jars. After a couple of days, the spring was fully extended and my poor cucumbers were squished down into the bottom of the jar. These would be fine for sauerkraut, but not anything that you want to keep its shape.You also have to be extra careful cleaning them or you'll break the silicone thing trying to put it back in the lid.

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Initially disappointed, the box was a plain box, it made me wonder if it was a genuine PickleHelix product. Couldn’t find jars to fit straight away. Made 1 jar of sauerkraut today and was pleased that the tops appear to be successful.

I just today opened my first jar of sauerkraut made with these lids and the tempered glass weights that Mason Jar Living sells here on amazon and I'm really happy with the sauerkraut I had with lunch. Delicious! I followed a recipe that was in a link provided by Trellis and Co. which made it super easy to put together a batch of kraut in a quart mason jar. I'm impressed with the lid. I don't have experience to draw from but all I can say that for my first time fermenting these lids made things really easy. I love that fact that they're stainless steel and that they'll last a while, hopefully the silicone valve will remain available for as long. The one thing that I have to mention, and the reason I can only give four stars, is that the lids I received are a little bit out of round. I measured one today and it's about 3//32 of an inch out of round. The lid works fine, conforming to the jar as it's tightened. It just bugs me when I put a lid on a glass jar and it binds a bit upon tightening. I think this is a great product. I've got six weights and three lids so I'll probably get three more. My first ferment went really well.UPDATE 8/2/17 I thought I would come back and update my review after using these for a few months. I originally bought 3 lids and found that I was running out of sauerkraut too often, so I bought 3 more and have been eating sauerkraut a couple times a day for a few months now. It's very healthy stuff, good for the mood also. I don't buy probiotics in pill form anymore. I'm impressed that I have not had one failure, not one bad batch with these lids. I've lost count on how many batches I've made, well over a dozen. It's important to leave a little room(1/2-3/4") at the top of the jar so the brine has a place to go instead of out the vent. I also add salt by weight, using a 2% ratio of salt to cabbage. If it's warm I use a 2.5% ratio and all has gone well. I'm using the method I learned from the website Trellis and Co. turned me on to(make sauerkraut dot com), basically for a quart jar it's 800 grams of cabbage to 16 grams of sea salt (I use Redmond Real Salt). Great product, can't wait to try out the new springs!9/9/19 update I've been using these new thicker (better!) lids along with the pickle helix for several batches of sauerkraut now and I am very happy with how these things work. I have not used my glass weights since I've tried the helix (springs) I still use the original Trellis + Co. lids I bought a couple of years ago and they work just fine. This new version lid is thicker and better, easier and more pleasant to use. Excellent product, well done Trellis + Co. !

I have just ordered and used my first set. One lid came with a broken silicone valve, and though I believe that more secure packaging would prevent this sort of thing from happening, the company did respond and has sent out a new set of three valves, though I've not received them yet.I am a former user of Pickle Pebbles and Pickle Pipes by Masontops. They served me well for a couple of years and then I discovered that the glass weights had cracked and actually chipped while being stored in a drawer, in the rubber secured box that they had come in! I contacted both Masontops and the seller on Amazon, Kitchen Essentials, and received absolutely NO REPLY from either of them, though it is clear that the composition of the glass in the Pickle Pebbles is now described as "soda lime", not lead free, as mine were. They have lost a customer!The Trellis & Company Stainless Steel kit makes a lot more sense to me now! And they're not going to leave chips of glass in my ferment, or rust from use. I love the way the spring really does continue to apply pressure to the ferment: both my sauerkraut and kimchi look perfect! I plan to buy another set, AND EXTRA VALVES, simply because the valves are definitely the weakest link in the set! But, OH how clever this system is! Wish I'd thought of it!