Anchor Hocking Montana Glass Jars with Fresh Sealed Lids (96 oz, Set of 2)

Glass Jars With a Lid That Actually Seals

The Montana jars solve the one thing the all-glass jars cannot: a real airtight seal, without going back to plastic.

This set is two large 96-ounce clear glass jars from Anchor Hocking, each with a brushed-metal lid that closes onto a gasket to seal in freshness, which is why the line is called Fresh Sealed. Your food sits against inert glass, the lid is metal rather than plastic, and the gasket does the sealing, so dry goods like flour, sugar, coffee, rice, cereal, and cookies stay fresh longer than they would under a loose lid. The thick side walls and wide mouth make scooping easy, and the brushed-metal look is built to sit out on a counter rather than hide in a cabinet.

Anchor Hocking has made its glass in Lancaster, Ohio since 1905, and the glass is the part that earns this jar its place: it will not warp, stain, hold odors, or leach anything into what you store.

True Shift Score: 8.4 / 10

This is our own assessment, not a lab result or a certification.

It scores high for pairing inert, made-in-USA glass with a lid that actually seals, while keeping plastic away from your food: the body is glass, the lid is metal, and a gasket does the sealing. It sits just below the all-glass options on our material-purity scale because the lid is metal-and-gasket rather than glass, and the lids are hand-wash only. For dry-goods storage where you want both a real seal and food kept on glass, it is an excellent choice.

The Honest Tradeoffs

A couple of honest notes.

1. The lid is brushed metal with a gasket, which is what gives it the seal the all-glass jars lack, so it is not a strictly all-glass or all-natural lid, but it keeps plastic away from your food while sealing far better than a resting glass lid. 

2. The lids are hand-wash only even though the jars are dishwasher safe, so cleanup is a two-track job, normal for any gasketed metal lid. 

3. And as large glass jars they are heavy when full and breakable like all glass, so they want a stable home on the counter. 

4. If you would rather have no metal or gasket at all, an all-glass jar is the more material-pure option, with the trade that it will not seal airtight.

How We Evaluate Food Storage

We look at four things, and none is a lab score:

1. Whether the food-contact surface is inert and won't leach

2. Stain, or hold odors, what the lid is actually made of, since that is where plastic hides in most "glass" storage

3. How well it seals and holds up across the fridge, freezer, microwave, and dishwasher, 

4. And how durable it is over years of use. 

The real shift in food storage is getting your food off plastic and onto glass.