A friend once asked us, “You make a high-end product, why do you put it in a plastic jar?”
Our answer was simple… because you don’t eat the jar!
There is no customer-side added value from using a glass spice jar other than it looks better. We want to minimize the cost of delivering the best possible herbs and spices to your family at dinner time. A glass jar costs twice what a plastic jar does and that cost difference would be pushed to the consumer.
Plastic jars are also 100% recyclable, they weigh less which reduces shipping fuel use, and since they contain a UV blocker they protect the contents better.
In the kitchen plastic spice jars work better. If you drop a glass jar on a ceramic tile floor you end-up with broken glass and wasted spices; with plastic it’s no problem. Since we don’t use any anti-caking or lofting agents in our products you need to bang them around a little bit when using them—not a good idea with glass.
The versatility of our blends provides benefits also. You don’t need to buy as many different herbs and spices to make quite a few different recipes. This saves you money, shopping time, and prevents wasting spices because they’ve been in the pantry too long.
By saving money on packaging, labeling, and shipping we are able to invest it the contents of the jar and use more and better herbs and spices.
Just good common sense value engineering applied to gourmet spice blends.