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oh my god. pure genius. why has no one thought of this before?

Maybe I'm missing something - but is the purpose of the jar that I would scoop everything from the jar I bought it in into this jar? Because doesn't that defeat the purpose? And I do love my peanut butter - I normally get the last bits out by sticking my finger in and treating it like a bowl of batter.

Meelo, I think it would either be a new prototype for, say, Skippy or Jiffy to use. Or it could be a reusable jar for you to take to the nut butter bar at Whole Foods or your local co-op.

holy crap that's perfect

Cool idea, but my dog would be very disappointed.

If packaging has two lids to seal, wouldn't that make it twice as likely that one of those seals might fail?

This seems like a very silly invention to me. For a few dollars you can buy a mini silicone spatula that will get out ever last bit of peanut butter. By the time I'm finished with a peanut butter jar it hardly needs washing before going into the recycling bin.

This might make mixing the peanut butter a little easier, since you would be able to go through the solid stuff at the "bottom" instead of through the layer of oil at the "top" that likes to gush out when you first try to stir.

I've been informed that for store bulk sections (including honey and nut butter "bars") that customers aren't allowed to bring their own containers or reuse containers for health reasons. Maybe this is just a Texas health code issue...

renata: mine too! :-D

Charise, I couldn't agree more. Borders on fruitless...

I don't trust the seal on the lid. I have the natural peanut butter with the oil that separates, and I just know how tricky that oil is. It has a way of escaping no matter how well I screw the lid on.

squirrely, I think that might just be a state by state thing, or store by store, or maybe a mistaken source? I go to a spice shop in washington that encourages people to bring their own jars.

yeah its cool, but from a business perspective, I cant see any company embracing this. The jar will cost more and they dont benefit by you getting every ounce out of their jar.

Now, for those that like to grind their own at the store, this would be the way to go.

is it BPA free?

Two lids, one cup. Anybody?

This is great for that bottom-of-the-jar hardness that comes from refrigerating natural pb!

the container would be excellent for all those homemade pestos and sauces as well. i have a gigantor batch of walnut-pecan pate that would love the jar right now.

we bring our own containers to our neighborhood co-op all the time. one of the larger chains (aka whole foods or central market in texas) may just not want to bother with the extra work of weighing containers before they are brought in.

Yes, cool, but I still vote for useless. I like my standard jars because I can use them for anything from liquids to solids. I would be pretty ticked if I had to store my extra saurkraut, and this was the only jar in my cabinet. A rubber spatula is a waaaaay better idea. Or use a big, shallow jar you can get into easier.

Yeah, I don't trust the seals that much. But otherwise, it's friggin' brilliant! Why don't they just make all the sides straight like that? There must be some reason, in the processing/packaging end of things. Hmmm.

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My dog would be disappointed, too. And fairly useless, yes. But consider this: I buy the giant 5lb jar of Adams Natural PB from Costco. It's SO cheap compared to the equivalent in individual jars. Currently, I open it, dump it all into a blender and whir just long enough to combine the oil and pb. Then I scrape it into individual wide-mouth pint jars and use a jar sealer to seal the lid. I think I end up with 5 jars of pb. So, if you start with a giant jar, this double ender could be useful in your repackaging I suppose. Though it's not sealable. Anyway, that's my $.02.

This might be a little more expensive to produce, but (if there are any product managers with clout and balls out there reading) I wonder why all the packaging we consume is not designed to be re-used as this example is -- in the first place?

I'm always saving the good-sized bottles and jars (those which are easy to fill and have a decent capacity) and it makes me wish with our increasing awareness of what's going in the landfill needlessly something new and even not that different can come along. Especially here in Canada where we have some of the highest if not the most per-capita packaging consumption in the world.