First, there was the ReCap (looks like they’re going to have the wide mouth version available soon. Be still my heart!) Then came the Cuppow. Now there’s a new kid on the mason jar accessory block and it’s called the EcoJarz. It’s a stainless steel lid, fitted with a silicone gasket to prevent leaks and it fits any regular mouth jar.
This lid has been designed so that the primary drinking hole can either be used as a spot for sipping or as space for a straw. The hole has been sized so that most standard straws fit it nicely. I find that like this lid better for use with a straw than for sipping hot beverages, as if you have a hot drink in the jar, the lid transfers the heat directly to your lips. However, as long as you’re not drinking scalding hot tea or coffee, you should be fine drinking directly from the lid.
The EcoJarz lid costs $7.99 and can be purchased through their website. They’ve also got it packaged up with handled mason jars, for an easy travel mug in a single.
The EcoJarz team is made up of a group of jar-lovers based in Ithaca, NY and Denver, CO. They’re committed to challenge our throwaway culture and get people to start thinking differently about the stuff we consume. Just the kind of attitude I embrace!
Updated: Here’s a link
Thanks to the EcoJarz folks, I have five of these reusable drinking tops to giveaway. Here’s how to enter:
- Leave a comment on this post and share your to-go cup routine. Travel mug? Disposable cup? Thermos? Ceramic mug tucked precariously between your knees while driving like my dad used to do? Let’s hear your stories!
- Comments will close at 11:59 pm east coast time on Friday, October 26, 2012. Winner will be chosen at random and will be posted to the blog over the weekend.
- Giveaway open to everyone, no matter where you live.
- One comment per person, please. Entries must be left via the comment form on the blog at the bottom of this post. I do not accept submissions via email.
Disclosure: EcoJarz provided me with six of their reusable jar toppers, one to keep and five to give away. My opinions remain entirely my own.
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Right now my to-go cup is a mason jar with a lid and straw I got from etsy. But I am always anxious to try new things and pick a favorite. This is a style I am eager to try!
I’m a glass cup girl – just a regular Coke one – unless I can find my ONLY handled mason jar. This lid looks FAB!
For coffee, I have a few of the Starbucks travel mugs that I rotate between. For water, I have a few plastic bottles and also a favorite insulated metal one I picked up at target – I put ice in it in the morning, drink from it all day, and the ice still hasn’t melted the next morning. It’s even kept ice cold through hot yoga classes!
tall and tippy travel mug!
I have a Copco thermal cup, it’s ok but it doesn’t hold as much I’d like it too. These new Jar covers look great!
I work nights and have specific caffeine needs! I love iced coffee but fail it make it advance. I make hot coffee after dinner and drink it at home. But the leftb over coffee goes into random cups without lids in fridge for when I wake up the next. afternoon. I’ve also been known to pour other peoples leftover coffee into cups to save for my iced coffee. I would love a good. Mason jar lid to help my nighshift caffeine needs!
We like steel go-cups. We are happy with anything healthy that fits in the cup holder in the auto.
lol! LOVE this!!! Every morning, I make my cup of tea to drink while taking the kids to school. Most mornings it gets transferred to a travel mug. Sometimes I drink half as quickly as I can and just pray I don’t spill the coffee mug in the car. :crossfingers: My track record is about 25% spill/75% safe. In the Summer, I make frozen coffee and this would be great for that too!
For hot drinks I have a travel mug from a local coffee shop, cold drinks a stainless steel bottle, and both a nalgene and a britta filtering water bottle for water. Thanks for doing this giveaway!
Nothin like wrapping a cold hand around a warm handmade ceramic mug. Which break, and break my heart, all the darn time around this accident-prone house! Maybe it’s time to switch to mason jars, eh?
Sadly, I’m crazy cheap so I have a plastic gas-station soda cup with lid & straw I fill up every morning and take with me. I have plenty of jars and have even looked into how I would best modify a lid to fit, but just haven’t gotten around to buying the (few) supplies to do it. These look super great and I’d love to use it – assuming it doesn’t leak at all. I hate little drops of drink on my pants when I’m walking into work! If I don’t win, maybe I’ll put it on my christmas list…
Every morning, my husband takes a pint of raw milk and drinks it on the way to work! But plastic lids always leak, drinking from the threads is always messy and annoying, and the dime lid + ring combo is tricky to finagle while on the road!!! This would solve so many problems in one blow:)
I use a Tervis tumbler! Even though it is plastic, it is made in the USA (Florida even…the state I live in). I also just for water use a bobble. I have a toddler and both are extremely toddler proof.
I’m a ceramic mug girl and sometimes if I have forethought I grab a travel mug
I LOVE my insulated cup. but I love mason jars also!!! Thank you!
I use a travel mug for coffee, and a sigg for water. This would be great for other cold drinks I’d like to take on the go!
I recently got a travel mug/thermos with a tea infuser basket which i LOVE. now i just have to remember to bring it with me more often
I already carry around most beverages in mason jar, and I get some good-natured ribbing about it. With one of these lids, I might not so much.
I drink my breakfast smoothie from my travel ninja on the way to work. My travel mugs reside in my office.
My classic coffee mug goof: setting it on the roof to put something else in the car and then taking off while the mug is still on the roof! It’s happened to me too many times… And I’ve been doing it long enough to know it has nothing to do with old age!!!
I have a clear insulated travel cup that has pink cherry blossoms and brown leaves. It’s so pretty it makes me happy to drink out of it.
I’ve a nalgene that I drink cold stuff out of (and it doesn’t fit well in my car cup holder, but only drink water = no stains on clothes!). And for warm stuff – I drink from a mason jar using my cuppow! Love it and love that I’m drinking from a mason jar that my grandmother gifted me long ago. So cool and appropriate for this Home Ec. teacher
I was just thinking about this lid the other day while filling a travel mug with water and saw a jar on the counter. Would love one!
I have a great stainless steel travel mug from my barista says that is finally starting to die.
I was given a metal water bottle with a straw – I got around to using it this week and I couldn’t get the water to come up the straw…boo! Gave it up for a bottle of water. So much for ecology. This would work great and I could actually get my water up the straw to drink.
Travel mug all the way.
I usually use a stainless steel travel mug for my hot cocoa or cider in the morning.
I have a metal thermos travel cup for coffee, but I’d love this for cold drinks.
I use a travel mug or my open mason jar balanced carefully and prayerfully on the seat next to me.
I don’t have a to-go cup! My plastic (#eek!) water bottle is packed away somewhere with my kitchen (we are in the process of buying a house). So what do I do? I go thirsty. This would be perfect for me! I love the straw too!
Guess mine would be a series of go-to cup routines! There are seasonally adjusted first-thing-in-the-morning mugs, afternoon teacups, an old Tupperware covered 32-oz “glass” for outside drinking-while-gardening (the only place I actually embrace plastic is outside), just-because pretty cups and saucers, and the occasional use of an actual travel mug.
I’m missing my stainless travel mug at the moment, but I’m open to suggestions…!
travel mug! lately a mason jar for water.
I use all different stuff — travel tea mug, canning jar, ceramic mug in the car cup holder. I would love to try these lids!
I currently use a regular cup, which I wave at the kids while yelling at them to take my cup when I approach situations where I need both hands on the wheel
Mason jar all the way!
I have a travel mug for drinks on the go, plus three containers at work: one for tea, one for coffee, and one for cold water.
Tall stainless for coffee, ceramic for cold….don’t know why. Would love this…and so would some grandkids I know!
I bring my regular coffee cup when I walk the kids to school and drive to work and have a clear togo cup for hot or cold coffee shop bevvies
. I love the look of your lids!
We have stainless steel thermos/sippy cups/bottles that get used, but boy would these be great for me as my bottle as issues right now!
Thanks!
Heather
I have a metal insulated mug i use for water, but I always pack a jar of milk to go with cookies in my husband’s lunch. Haha yes, my husband
hmmmm…travel mug, small nalgene, stainless steel bottle/cup….so many choices
I am a coke-aholic. McDonald’s is my favorite and at $1.00 for a large I indulge often. Recently, we passed a McDonald’s and my son said, “Mom, aren’t you going to stop at McDonald’s and get a coke?” LOL! Another time we stopped at a gas station and he said, “Are you stopping to get a coke?” and I said, “No, sometimes we stop at the gas station to get gas!” LOL! I’ve been using, and reusing when I can, the disposable cups from McDonald’s but I hate the waste and have been looking for something better. I recently fell in love with Mason Jars and am making a chandelier. When I saw this accessory, I got so excited and thought “Ureka!!!” Now I can have my coke in my favorite Mason Jar wherever I am. Thanks for the post!!
I use an old janky travel mug…this looks so much better!
To-go cup routine: packing breakfast (yogurt and oatmeal and fruit!) or travel container for ice coffee.
Depending on my beverage I have a travel mug (which has seen better days) or a Klean Kanteen water bottle, and more and more often I am bringing a mason jar along with a lid that I have to take off and put back on to have a drink… these look AWESOME!
I have a plastic insulated mug from a gas station. I would love to try this lid on a mason jar.
I use a klean kanteen insulated thermos/mug for coffee.
My go-to is a french press travel mug (so convenient). This mason jar lid would be great for the office!
Usually just grab a glass out of the cupboard – of course I can’t fill it too full since there is no lid.