Life changing devices: the simple preserving funnel
Posted by Fiona Nevile in Kitchen equipment | 34 comments
Photo: Fiona posing with the preserving funnel
I always thought that preserving funnels were the sort of dinky faddy things that Little Grey Rabbit
Lingering in Newmarket this week I spotted a preserving funnel on sale in a kitchen shop. At half price, it was irresistible. I’d been keeping my eye out for one since Kate(uk) mentioned how good they were in a comment on the blog.
Filling jars with homemade passata I overfilled a jar and the extra passata stayed in the funnel and didn’t spill. Later I made some crabapple chilli jelly and filling the jars was a doddle. No mess, waste or cleaning up palaver. Brilliant.
Amazon has one here Faringdon Preserving jar funnel 
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I have been so tempted by so many of the gadgets you have written about. Even more so when you provide good reasons why they would be useful when I was struggling to think of any. But this is a must – and within budget too!
We’ve got one of those – so why haven’t I been using it when filling jars with scalding hot purple gloop?!
At what’s more, where has it gone?
Celia
So lovely to see a photo of your beautiful self!
My folks have a wide mouthed funnel for preseving. I’ve recently bought 2 larger sized funnels for all that I do, super cheap at my (un)supermarket.
Sending super love, Michelle xxx
I found a wonderful trick ~ the dishwasher came with a plastic funnel for adding the salt crystals …… hey presto, it fits over most of the standard jam jars a treat and makes filling them with hot jam a real easy task! No purchase ~ one item does two jobs!!
Don’t you look relaxed? Wonderful! I wish you many years of happy bottling!
I bought mine from Lakeland and wouldn’t make jam or chutney without it!
Lovely photograph! and what a great invention… must seek one out, thanks for the links!!
Love Jane xxx
The wide necked jars they have here in Latvia is a boon. They also have new jar lids on sale every year, took me a while to work out why they were selling jar lids until I realised how much the Latvians bottle up at the end of the year.
I am planning on making marmelade this year so I will be getting one of these.
I used to preserve peaches and pears every year. I used a “canning funnel” that had a much larger hole. It made it very easy to pack the jars with either halves or slices. I don’t know if the kind I used is available here in the UK.
AND you have a splendid excuse for ‘sampling’ your jam/jelly/chutney by licking it out before washing it up after use….the left over bits are always the best.