3 Premium Fermenting Weights, Heavy Hand-Crafted Glass Fermentation Weights with Easy Handle for Wide Mouth Mason Jar Fermenting Sauerkraut, Pickles, Kimchi and More Home Fermented Foods

Two part review:1) product is nicely made, was package well and is easy to use and clear which is critical. 5-star review here.2) For fit, they work fine for the 16oz wide mouth ball mason in terms of width. However, if you use this product with Eden's House fermenting lids, you'll quickly realize you lose about 8oz of space between the handle of the weight, the valve of the fermenting lid and the space you need to leave at the top of the jar so water doesn't come out of the top of the valve when suctioning air out.No problem, i'll buy the 32oz wide mouth ball mason jar. Ideally I only need about 24oz for the amount of food I would like to ferment. However, the problem with the 32oz ball mason jar is that the body of the jar is much more rectangular than the 16oz. If you chop your food you plan to ferment, some of it may slip by the fermenting weight.In short, does not fit well in 16oz ball mason jars with Eden's House fermenting lid on top and does not fit well from width perspective with 32oz ball mason jars.

This is the second type of glass weight that I am using and it is by far the best! the reason that I say this is because of handle. You can try to lift the glass weights with finger grooves but you will quickly realize this product with a handle is the one you should have bought.

The weights are excellent and I liked them immediately when I received them. What made my experience with the purchase even better was when I contacted the seller about the chipped handle of one of the weights - they promptly replied and sent me a replacement as well as two fermentation lids, which are also great product that I have bought for a third time recently. In addition, I think the 6-pack is the best for its combination of quality and price for similar products.

I bought another kind of glass weights first (they cost less), but longish handle going all the way across the weight is not tall enough and sometimes slides out my hands when wet, so I ordered these next. Knob handles work much better, for $17.99 these 6 weights are just perfect.I also love the packaging, each glass has its own little bubble baggy.

I read many reviews and looked at many pictures before I ordered these. My purchasing decision was made on the little handle, and though it takes a bit of space so that I am not able to pack the jar as tight, but as I am using fermentation lids I wanted a little room for expansion.When I received my order one of the weights had a defect on the bottom that could have potentially captured a little air. I reached out to Eden Farmhouse and within hours I had a response and in days I had a replacement for the defective weight.The customer service was top notch and I was impressed with their dedication to customer satisfaction.

Tried them all...many glass weights out there, some better, some worse...I love these the best and here is why...* the nob on top actually works...you can grab it and lift the weight from your ferment...* the weights are solid glass full thickness...no well or indentation on top to collect the liquid...* heavy enough to keep everything submerged...Will be ordering another set soon...and the packaging makes it easy to store them while not in use...enough said

I used this weight on top of a whole cabbage leaf to hold down the sauerkraut batch in a wide mouth canning jar. It is the best solution I have come across...ever!

These weights are a lot heavier than others that I have. All six are between 7.1 and 7.2 ounces. The knob on top is easy to grab with fingers or tongs. One nice feature that I have not seen on other weights is an X-shaped indentation on the top of the knob. If you use waterless airlock fermentation lids and tend to overfill your jars slightly, this indentation will keep the knob from blocking the silicone valve in the center of the lid, which is something that I have heard people complain about with weights that do not have this feature. When I need more weights, these are the ones that I will be buying again.

They look great and the handle looks good to use but I tried to use these with wide mouth mason jars that work fine with fermentation lids and they are slightly too wide for the jar’s internal mouth diameter by a tiny amount so are useless to me. I expect they’ll work with genuine Ball jars but I don’t have those to try.