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Fill Spice Jars Without a Hitch

hen Warren Kitzmann of Minneapolis, Minn., used a funnel to help fill small jars with bagged bulk spices, he found that the spices didn’t flow well through the narrow neck of the funnel. Now he does the job with a disposable pastry bag, the bottom cut to just fit into the openings of the jars. The larger channel of the bag makes the filling process much smoother; plus, there’s no spice spillage and

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