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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Hello Damian
Sorry I missed your comment. Great idea – thanks!
Hi Eleanor
Yes – the are so handy. I use mine for filling big jars of dried beans and rice 🙂
Hi
Preserving funnel together with the recipe for apple chutney kept me busy in November.
I bought another funnel as it is perfect for filling the bird feeders with peanuts!!!!!!!
You can buy funnels everywhere, it doesn’t have to be a special one that someone will charge over the top for! Just cut an inch or so off the bottom of an ordinary plastic kitchen one.
Hi KarenO
I know where your hubby is coming from. A gadget like this would be perfect for transferring paint to a smaller can.
Perhaps I should beetle down to Newmarket and buy another one…
I used to have one of these but when working full time I didn’t use it often and hubby pinched it for paint transfer!! I now use a jug but they are cheap enough to get a new one. I often think of mine when I’m dribbling carefully from the jug so thanks for the nudge.
Hi Elizabeth
It’s a very complimentary photo – just had my 56th birthday. Perhaps the funnel is hiding the wrinkles.
I’m making apple butter like a mad woman. A great way of dealing with a glut.
Hello LindaM
Yes they would be perfect. Thanks for the tip 🙂
Sorry to be so late to comment, been out of town. These funnels are great for transferring grain from bags to glass jars too. I keep mine in sight at all times and when I lose it in the cupboard, I panic!
Nice to see what you look like, I imagined you older. I enjoy your blog so much and have made many recipes. I made apple butter yesterday using a pan instead of the slow cooker, have never made apple butter before so I hope it’s OK. Now that I’ve read on your blog an apple butter recipe that can be made in a slow cooker I will try your recipe. Keep up the great blog and get better soon.
Hello Natalia
I reckon that WW2 and the “You’ve never had it so good” era meant that most Brits stopped growing and preserving. Now electricity prices are soaring the option of freezing is not so attractive so we’re going back to old fashioned preserving. Your Mason jars are similar to Kilner jars in the UK and the Kilner jar business went out of business. Now Kilner jars are in production again 🙂
I love my funnel – less mess, less waste.
Hello Anita
Threy are great! Why did it take me so long to get one?
Hi Alison
How sensible you were to buy one of these when you started preserving. Just flicked onto your site and your jam looks scrummy.
I’ve just started my jam making adventures and I’m so clumsy I know I’d have made the worst mess without this simple device!