Cap TO 82mm HIGH Black pasteurisable - Pack of 16 units

01 · COMPATIBILITY

Three jars in the catalogue, and only three

This lid closes the 410 ml high mouth TO82 Deep, the Aura 720 ml Boca Alta and the APIARI 1 kg TO82 Deep. That is all: they are the only 82 mm jars in the catalogue with the long neck.

The other six TO 82 jars —1 kg celdillas, N720 Normalisse, Pot-720, Orcio 720, BOV 720 and hexagonal 720— have a standard finish and take the low lid. Quick rule when ordering: if the jar name says Deep or high mouth, it is this one; if it does not, it is the other.

02 · THE FOURTEEN MILLIMETRES

Why a lid of the same diameter will not do

A high-mouth jar has the same 82 mm opening, but the glass keeps rising above the point where an ordinary lid ends. The short skirt sits without covering that neck, so the liner is not pressed against the rim and the seal ends up loose. You do not notice while filling: you notice days later, when the jar weeps or the honey at the top has picked up moisture, with the batch already done. The 14 mm of this lid cover the whole neck and bring the liner to where the glass bears.

03 · THE LINER SEALS ONCE

And with cold-filled honey the button stays up: that is normal

On the first closure the bead of liner inside takes the imprint of the glass rim and never goes flat again, so a reused lid bears on its own mark. On a jar for your own shelf it will do a second time; for honey you sell, a new lid per jar.

And one clarification that saves a complaint: honey is filled cold, so no vacuum forms — there is no hot vapour to condense — and the centre button neither drops nor clicks. The lid is not faulty: with honey the seal is mechanical. Vacuum only appears if you hot-fill or pasteurise.

FROM THE APIARY

A Twist-Off does not screw on like a bottle cap: the six lugs ride up a short ramp and the whole closure is a quarter turn. Sit it flat until you feel it settle, turn to the stop and leave it there: carrying on does not seal better, it bends the lug and leaves the jar impossible to open. If it grates or feels like the thread has stripped, lift it off and set it down again — there is no thread to strip, a lug has ridden over its ramp.

04 · BEFORE YOU BUY

You are buying 16 lids: jars are sold separately. The same deep skirt comes in gold, silver, black and bronze, and for production there is the box of 430. Keep them bagged until you fill, below 70 % relative humidity.