Best Pickling Jars With Printed Scales and Labels

How the Five Compare on the Numbers

A jar on a weeknight has two jobs beyond holding food: telling you how much is in it and telling you what it is. Two of these five print a scale on the glass. Three supply labels instead. One of the label jars states in its own words that the glass carries no measurement marks at all.

Folinstall prints oz and ml markings and says why: no separate cups or scales are needed. Galssmagic publishes dual measurement markings without naming the units. IUNNUI supplies eight chalkboard labels and a chalk marker. ComSaf supplies four labels for three square jars, and its 32 oz pair supplies two labels and no scale.

What the table cannot tell you is how fine either scale is. Neither Folinstall nor Galssmagic publishes an interval, a lowest mark or a tolerance, so printed markings might be every cup or every hundred milliliters. Both say measuring is instant and neither says what you can measure to.

A Scale on the Glass, or a Label on the Front

Two Jars That Print the Numbers

Folinstall makes the clearest case in the pool for printed markings. Clear oz and ml markings are printed directly on the jar, and the listing states the consequence rather than the feature: no separate cups or scales are needed. On a gallon jar that is a real saving, because the alternative is pouring into a measuring cup and then into a jar with a 4.3 inch mouth.

Galssmagic publishes dual measurement markings on its 128 oz jars and stops there. Which two units are printed is never stated, and neither is the interval. Its other visibility claim is only about the glass being clear, so you can quickly identify what is inside and monitor freshness, which is true of every jar in this pool of thirty-five.

Three Jars That Hand You a Label Instead

IUNNUI supplies the most complete labeling kit here: eight reusable chalkboard labels, one chalk marker and a cleaning brush for three 17 oz jars. Eight labels for three jars is deliberate, because a chalkboard label is meant to be rewritten as the contents change, and the marker means you are not hunting for a pen at the point of filling.

ComSaf takes the same idea further into the design of the jar. Its square 51 oz jars are 4.4 inches wide and 7.7 inches tall with straight sides, and the listing states that the flat fronts hold labels cleanly. Four labels arrive for three jars, with the spare named for tea, candy or cocktail garnishes.

The Listing That Says What It Lacks

Smooth Glass, Stated Plainly

The ComSaf 32 oz pair is the only listing in thirty-five that tells you a feature is absent. Its care bullet ends with the sentence that the smooth jars do not include measurement marks, sitting beside the statement that the lids are consumable parts over time. Neither sentence helps the sale and both are the kind of thing a buyer finds out later.

It supplies two black labels instead, which is the cheapest possible answer to the second question a jar has to answer. With a 3 in wide mouth, two 32 oz jars and 2.12 pounds published for the pair, it is the plainest pick here and it is the only one that has told you exactly what you are not getting.

What the Other Four Do Not Say

Silence is the norm and the ComSaf sentence is the exception. IUNNUI, ComSaf’s square jars and Galssmagic never state whether the glass carries marks, and on two of them the answer appears to be no. Folinstall states that it prints them without saying what the lowest mark is or how far apart the marks sit.

Nobody publishes an accuracy statement either. A printed jar scale is molded or applied to curved glass, and the volume it reads depends on where your eye is. Both jars that print one describe measuring as instant and precise, and neither publishes a figure you could hold either claim to.

Figures Around the Edges

A Sixty-Six Inch Box for Two Quart Jars

The ComSaf 32 oz listing publishes package dimensions of 3.94 by 3.94 by 66.14 inches. Two quart jars do not ship in a box five and a half feet long, and the unit dimension fields on that listing are empty, so the figure stands alone and unexplained. We have not used it for anything and the jar’s own bullets supply the 32 oz and the 3 in mouth instead.

Elsewhere the carton figures are plausible and still not the jar. Galssmagic publishes 12 by 7 by 14 inches for two gallon jars and IUNNUI publishes 4.2 by 4.2 by 4.3 inches for three 17 oz ones. Only Folinstall and the square ComSaf publish a jar size in their own words, at 5.9 by 5.9 by 9 inches and 4.4 by 7.7 inches.

What Arrives Beyond the Jars

Two picks here supply something that is not glass. Folinstall publishes a removable stainless steel handle for lifting, carrying and pouring a full gallon, plus a non-slip silicone base to keep the jar steady while you stir. IUNNUI publishes a cleaning brush with its labels and marker. The rest supply jars, lids and nothing more.

The seals are where the published detail is thickest. IUNNUI publishes 2.8mm silicone gaskets with steel clamps, the only gasket thickness figure in this pool. Folinstall publishes a silicone inner seal inside a stainless lid and gives the reason as less food contact with plastic. ComSaf publishes a wire clamp on the square jars and split lids with bands on the 32 oz pair.

Which One Fits Your Kitchen

You want to measure in the jar you store in. Folinstall prints oz and ml markings directly on two gallon jars of 5.9 by 5.9 by 9 inches, states no separate cups or scales are needed, and adds a removable steel handle and a non-slip base.

You relabel the same jars every week. IUNNUI supplies three 17 oz jars with eight reusable chalkboard labels, one chalk marker and a cleaning brush, with 2.8mm silicone gaskets and steel clamps, at 0.99 lb for the three.

You want labels to sit flat and straight. ComSaf publishes three square 51 oz jars at 4.4 inches wide and 7.7 inches tall, states the flat fronts hold labels cleanly, supplies four labels, and publishes a 3.3 in mouth for a scoop.

You fill big jars and read the level across the room. Galssmagic publishes two 128 oz jars with dual measurement markings and a super wide mouth for filling and pouring, and publishes 8.55 lb for the pair.

You would rather a listing told you the truth. The ComSaf 32 oz pair states that its smooth jars do not include measurement marks and that lids are consumable, supplies two black labels and a 3 in mouth, at 2.12 lb for two.

What We Could Not Verify

Every figure above is a manufacturer’s own published number or sentence, taken from the listing itself. These are the things we went looking for across all thirty-five listings on this fact sheet and could not find in any of them.

• The interval between marks on either jar that prints a scale, or its lowest mark.
• Which two units Galssmagic prints, on markings it calls dual and never names.
• Any accuracy statement for a printed scale, from Folinstall or Galssmagic.
• Whether the IUNNUI, Galssmagic or square ComSaf glass carries marks at all.
• What the 3.94 by 3.94 by 66.14 inch package figure on the ComSaf 32 oz pair measures.
• A jar height from Galssmagic, IUNNUI or the ComSaf 32 oz pair in the maker’s own words.