I want to purchase Sun Tea Jugs, before they've been decorated, and especially before they've been drilled to insert a plastic spigot. These spigots are difficult to clean and harbor bacteria and fungus. I would also like to find such jugs with just a simple screw-on plastic lid, without the pouring hole.

Many thanks for any help.

-- Allen Meyer (ameyer@mail.mc.maricopa.edu), February 19, 2002

Answers

I use a gallon pickle jar for sun tea. Just soak the label off.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), February 19, 2002.

Jay you can't use pickle jars for tea, especially if they are plastic, it will always taste and smell like pickles. But you are right, you can buy large jars, big gallon ones, filled with other things and use them. I go to the schools and ask their food service people to save their jars for me. Then I don't have to worry about who ia going to eat all those pickles or beans or what ever is in the jar.

Susan

-- Susan in Minnesota (nanaboo@paulbunyan.net), February 19, 2002.

Use the glass ones and bleach them well.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), February 19, 2002.

How about those big canning jars (pre-pickling?)

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), February 19, 2002.

I have several of the sun-tea jars with the spigots and I take it apart each time I wash them and clean it and put it back together. I've been doing this for years and it's always worked fine for me. You might want to try it once. And, they do get their use here. In the summer we always have one jar in the fridge and another one brewing on the porch. I didn't get any special kind of jar, just what they sell at Wal-mart I think (it was so long ago).

-- rose marie wild (wintersongfarm@yahoo.com), February 19, 2002.

We've been using the glass pickle jars for years. The ones with the spigots are a pain and always leak/break.

-- ellie (elnorams@aol.com), February 19, 2002.