Why didn't lids seal?

[Woodland Woman]

I pressure canned 2 batches of chili. Out of both batches only one jar sealed.

I have canned chili before without a problem Why wouldn't the lids seal?

 

[BarredBuff]

Faulty lids maybe? Maybe, grease on the jar rim? I don't know I'm just throwing out ideas.

 

[Woodland Woman]

There was more leakage than normal. The problem is I am not sure why.

 

[Beekissed]

If you are an experienced canner and I'm thinking you are and you experienced that high a rate of non-seal, I'd be looking at the quality of the lids. Too many not sealing to be human error.

 

[Icu4dzs]

I have seen this happen when the rings weren't tightened on enough. It says finger tight but that appears to be flexible as to whose fingers tighten it!
Trim sends
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[cheepo]

I had something like that happen with some bbq sauce...
Think I didn't leave enough headspace...
took a bit out...cleaned the rims...
cleaned and softened...the same lids...
reprocessed and all sealed fine...

 

[Woodland Woman]

I did tighten the lids well. I hope it wasn't too tight. I may have not left enough headspace.

I left 1" on the quart size jars for the first batch and about 3/4" on the pint size for the second batch.

I decided not to try again and ended up freezing 24 quarts of chili.

 

[Woodland Woman]

If you are an experienced canner and I'm thinking you are and you experienced that high a rate of non-seal, I'd be looking at the quality of the lids. Too many not sealing to be human error.

It would be nice to blame the lids instead of me. lol But I successfully canned some chicken a few weeks ago with lids from the same box.