RSVP International Endurance Canning Collection Non-Reactive 18/8 Stainless Steel, Dishwasher Safe, Ladle, 13-1/2"

These funnels are useful for many purposes and I decided to buy three different ones to compare. This is the highest quality, but it depends on your needs. I use large neck funnels in the potting shed for filling small pots and refilling certain of my bird feeders. I use them in the garage for filling the garden tractor and leaf vacuum gas tanks without spillage. In the kitchen, since I use Ball jars for many purposes, I’m always needing one there as well. Mostly the inexpensive green plastic one works fine, but I wanted to try the alternative models.There’s a stainless steel model with a cup-type handle and a wider top opening than the green plastic one. That funnel is great if you have a small jar that isn’t very deep because the bottom collar is only 1/2” deep where the green one is over an inch. Both have the same circumference opening at the bottom but the green one won’t sit on the little jars steadily, which the stainless steel one does. The stainless steel one has a wider top so is better at avoiding messy spillovers too. They work for regular and wide mouth jars. If you’re canning, you may appreciate that the green plastic one has the deeper bottom collar so you know when to stop filling the jar.Now, all that said, this RSVP funnel is my favorite for anything that uses a wide mouth jar. It has a wider neck (2 ¾”) and is made specifically for wide mouth jars. It fits inside their opening much more steadily than the other two. It is higher quality stainless steel with a high polished finished and thumb holds on both sides of the top rim for grasping. With the wide top opening and rim, and the steady fit in the jar mouth, spills are a thing of the past. The neck depth is midway between the longer one of the plastic funnel and the short one on the cup-handled stainless steel one. It comes exactly to the base of the jar collar. This suits me perfectly because I use the jars far more for non-canning uses like fresh squeezed juice or the extra serving of a smoothie I’m saving for the next day. Even when filling the jar with something I intend to freeze (and therefore need extra space left in the jar) I like being able to see that my chicken stock or whatever doesn’t quite reach the bottom of the funnel (where the official freeze-fill line is on the jar), especially since the green funnel tips back and forth on the jar collar so the depth of the contents can’t be accurately judged quickly from the top. This might seem like a small thing, but isn’t if you’re holding the heavy pan from which you’re pouring.While all three funnels will be useful to me for different reasons, this one is unquestionably the best quality and will be used the most for all my wide mouth jar needs.

This product is of a very nice quality. It is thick, with no handle to break off (as other products in this class). It is also jar specific, wide mouth only, which I like because it holds in place well on wide mouth jars. I will definitely be ordering the one for standard jars. It is a bit more expensive than others on Amazon, but well worth it.

Beautiful ladle made for accurately pouring liquids. After reading some of the negative reviews it's easy to understand some purchaser frustration when the spot welds holding the handle to the cup let go. That's a manufacturing issue and should have been caught by the spot welder operator during that operation. I immediately checked the strength of the three spot welds holding my ladle together by hand twisting & torquing the handle and bowl. The spot welds were strong enough to resist my efforts to break the spot welds. The finish is almost jewelry quality and the spot welds almost disappeared beneath the amazing hand applied polished surface. I make maple syrup and recently made a batch of hickory syrup and used the ladle to pour the boiling hot liquid hickory syrup precisely into the pint canning jars. It was a pleasure to use it. Should the spot welds in my ladle ever fail, I'll take it to a local sheet metal shop and have the ladle repaired with the sheet metal shop's spot welder.As for the hole in the handle. I bent a little wire hook and mounted the hook to the back side of the handle with a small screw and use the hook to hang the ladle on the inside of the kettle of hot liquid while I screw on the lids and bands on the jars after filling them. Perhaps that was the manufacture's reason for placing the hole where it is.

This wide mouth funnel is made for use with wide mouth canning jars and should work well.I'm just trying to use it in a **different** situation and while I'm, overall, mostly delighted with this funnel which is a single piece of formed metal (no welds to break, pieces to come loose), the interior diameter of the chute is slightly larger than the advertised 2.75".Great, right?Not really, because the resulting outer dimension is ~2 and 7/8 inches (as shown in the included photo) which is a bit snug as I am filling re-used sterilized pickle & salsa jars with grains or my home-made sauerkraut.The funnel can be gently wedged into the jar mouth to a depth of ~1/8 inch and certainly does NOT wobble. I am careful when inserting it so as to avoid cracking the jar mouth; similarly, I remove it by giving a slight rotational twist instead of a side-to-side jiggle/lift. So far, I've had no jar breakage.It does NOT fit into the mouth of my re-used peanut-butter/tahini jars (which measure ju-u-u-st under 2.75"), so this item is not as versatile in my use as I'd hoped in my longshot daydreams.Could I attempt to crimp the chute's edges inward to ease the fit in the pickle and salsa jars? Possibly, but that distortion would ruin the sleek, practical design which I truly appreciate.The edges feel thick and smooth enough to pose very little risk of accidental (or even intentional) cuts to one's fingers while using or cleaning. The top horizontal rim even has a nicely sized hanger hole.Again, this is a well-designed, sturdy, easy-to-clean funnel which seems to promise decades of future use in my kitchen. I'm just disappointed that the advertised dimensions weren't exactly accurate.