Original Bormioli Fido 5L Clip Top Preserving Jar

Have bought two of these now - one for flour in the pantry and the 2nd being used with its lid as a vase. Great quality, superb size, trying to find excuses to buy more!

I’m making Kombucha following a 5 litre recipe. The jar itself is actually 467CL so not actually a true 5 litre capacity. I’ve had to adjust my recipe accordingly. It says this on the manufacturer’s label. The jar itself is great quality so would buy again. I recommend it but incase it’s important to you to have a true 5 litre jar I did this post.

As described

I've purchased this jar twice now and generally like it. I purchased it for fermentation (apple cider vinegar). It's sufficiently voluminous and perfectly transparent so there is no guessing as to what is happening in the jar. I also like that the lid can be removed so that a cheese cloth can be put in its place.However, it's not ideal (and that's no fault of the maker or the jar) for apple cider vinegar making. Due to the volume of the jar it is impossible to keep apples submerged (due to their lack of density and solidity) in water as the fermentation process unfolds.The largesse of the body of the jar relative to its mouth also means you can only fit a certain size (too small) weight into the jar which can't cover enough of the surface area of the body of the jar to remain on the top of the ferment.Even if you fill the jar to its brim (not advisable as this causes spillage from the bubbling, wets the cheese cloth and exposes the very top of the contents of the jar [apples in my case] to air and bacteria), typical glass weights are too heavy and dense and eventually sink through the apples all the way through to the bottom.So, unfortunately unless you can get a custom weight made from wood (say oak, for example), I wouldn't recommend this jar for apple cider vinegar fermentation.

Good quality. Decent size. Gonna be great for extractions

Great quality

Lovely jars, shame one was broken on arrival! Better padding in your packaging please.

Unfortunately this is a square shaped jar so wasn't what I was looking for however good and sturdy and sure it would do the job of storing something.