You Could Win This Mason Jar Cocktail Shaker!
Photo by Ralph Anderson
Leave it to Virginia natives-turned-Brooklyn hipsters to come up with the most spirited take yet on the endlessly useful Mason jar: a cocktail shaker. Everyone here at Southern Living is all shook-up over the Mason Shaker, featured in the Holiday Gift Guide in our December issue. It’s festive, practical and super-Southern. We’ll drink to that!
You could win this cocktail shaker! In the comments section below, tell us your favorite use for a Mason jar. Our favorite answer wins the shaker. The contest begins now and ends December 31. Click here for official rules.
Let’s hear how you up-cycle the Mason jar!
Mixing up my salad dressings
I use it as a cup with lid and straw for my daughter and all her friend. We love them.
I BOUGHT THE SMALL ONES AND USED THEM AS TEA LIGHT CANDLE HOLDERS THRU OUT OUR BACKYARD, SOME AROUND THE BORDER AND SOME HANGING IN TREES
I use the smaller mason jars for rubs for steak, chicken, pork or fish!
Crawdad menagerie.
My Mason jars are precious to me…I use them for canning and giving away some of what I can….asking that they give me back the mason jar so that next year I can repeat if the crop is good ….. pickles, beans, tomatos, soup, spaghetti sauce, and then between canning seasons, if some tea is left over at the end of the day, there is always a mason jar near buy to put the little bit in so I have the picture for fresh tea the next day….Love em….
Holding tea bags!
would love to have this
I use a quart size for iced tea with a half of a lemon.
no better use than as a good old drinking glass
I have Mason jars for storing the SCOBY used to make Kombucha Tea with. For shaking and storing dressing for a salad, e.g., cole slaw. I also use them to keep a little of the leftover maple bacon grease in to be used later in making a warm bacon vinaigrette for potato salad.
I take my liquid soap and put it in my mason jars and put in a plunger …so much better than those old plastic bottles on the counter ..
Love my mason jars …so cute and practical
Our son is named after Mason jars!!! promise!! While he was growing up, birthday parties, sleep overs, or when he had friends over, I would serve them in Mason jars, on honor of their host. Birthdays, I would fill them with jelly beans, and his guest would have to guess the number of beans, to win the jar filled with the candies.
Now, I serve ice tea, margaritas,& beer in the jars
Taking iced coffee or other cold beverages to work with me.
I like to infuse my olive oil with different dried herbs in a mason jar.
Is there anything better out of a mason jar than moonshine
Salad! Dressing in the bottom to keep the greens from wilting and when you are ready to eat: Shake and enjoy!
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My Mason Jar is filled with Sweet Tea
Love to use them to catch lightening bugs. My girls loved that when they were little.
Storing leftovers and taking salads for lunch to work.
I love to use them as vases for flowers with raffia tied around the jars. So pretty and southern.
Save used bar soap in mine to make bubble bath.
One of my handiest usages for mason jars is after painting a room in my house, I fill a mason jar with the leftover paint and simply write on the lid with a marker as to which room it belongs to. Painting touch ups are super easy when all you have to do is unscrew the lid and grab a foam brush that can be thrown away afterwards!
I have several blue mason jars…they were my grandmother’s….just knowing her hands were on them make them special to me. During Christmas I put a string of lights in the jars….what beautiful glow they give….very peaceful…
I have used them for all the above ideas. Main thing is for broth to make gravy.
As a wine glass!! Hot glue a glass candle stick on the bottom!!!!
Vases for fresh cut flowers!
I use them for Christmas gifts in a jar,(like bean soup, brownies, and such), for storing ready made salads in the fridge, for candle holders, vases for flowers, holding candies, button and different little things. I also use them for what they were made for, canning vegetables and jellies. In fact, I use them for everything!!! They are great!
I just made Apple Butter from my Apple Tree and canned it in Mason Jars, I think my Grandkids could smell it cooking a mile away. They showed up for their jar or two to take home. As they were leaving I ask them to return the jars if they wanted them refilled.
Use them for everything! Screws, nails, nuts & bolts in the garage; store pecans & walnuts for baking in the refrigerator; store string & twine & pull thru a small hole in the top.
I use them instead of tupperware-style containers, for storing soup and other leftovers in the frig. This is aside, of course, from using them for canning!
I use them for food storage,and making green tea in them
Simple, I drink my sweet tea with lemon out of them. May have to add a little Jack Daniels to this one.
I make jar cake using my mason jars. Then I put fancy ribbon on and give them to friends as gifts.
Raspberry Lime Flavored Water (beautiful color and mildly tart) — Quarter 2 limes; with your hands, squeeze the juice into the jar, then throw in the squeezed lime quarters. Add raspberries. Press and twist with a muddler to release some of the juices (don’t pulverize the fruit). Fill the jar with ice, then add water to the top. Stir, cover, and refrigerate.
Use Mason for my cocktails in summer~winter for my salad dressing~I use them all year long.I also do crafts with them,so pretty filled with lights:-)
I love to serve cocktails and wine in the small ones. Use the large ones for mixing salad dressings and marinades and of coarse canning green beans in the summer.
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I use mason jars to drink real southern sweet tea out of. Made with lots of sugar & Lon judt the way God intended!
Canning everything
I use my mason jars to store bathroom items like cotton balls and q-tips. The blue jars are really pretty for this sort of thing. I also use them to store pantry items like dried beans.
I use mine as soap dispensers, small 1/2 pints for storing spices in, and then I also store things in them – dried peppers, coffee beans, etc.
I give them to friends and family at Christmas, filled with my homemade peppermint schnapps.
Iced tea
To give mixes in for holiday gifts.
Using them to store homemade peach jam each summer!
I use them to hold the wet sponge/wand next to my kitchen sink. It makes the mess look a bit more classy!
To make specimen containers for mad scientist party. Canning. putting a string of battery operated lights in for luminaries, storing small objects such as nails and pins
I store my jewelry in them on my dresser.
…Use them to store the extra button and thread that come with shirts, sweaters and other clothing.