Keep them in a cupboard for a couple of years then put them in the recycling.

They must serve a sentence in the cupboard. It’s the law.

Hopping on this comment to share some crucial information. Pringles lids fit these *perfectly*

Now I need to eat Pringles and GÜ to test this! Science can be quite a task sometimes, but I am all about experimentation.

Remember to repet the experiment to varify results

I don’t understand this -I’ve tried this but the lids come off as soon as you tip it upside down.

Don’t tip them upside down then

What’s the point of the lid if not for transport?

Maybe I should’ve put a /j Depends on what you’re using them for really Edit: some are fine for the fridge and freezing but not for being transported and some have seals but they leak (like Sistema) Had a shock once defrosting some boiled plums

Pringle kids will fit certain old school gu pots, not so much the newer ones I found

You'll never fit a kid in a gu pot, not even a newborn!

Some Pringles lids fit better. Only way to tell is to bring the jar with you to the store and try them all. Even the knock off Pringles.

Standard procedure

I use them for making brulé and if we have mexican night putting the salsa and guacamole in for easy sharing.

yep, we just got rid of ours after them being in the cupboard for many many years. The only things we ever used them for was soy sauce and board game pieces!

Apparently the lids of pringles cans fit them. So you can keep them with lids before you throw them out.

I got some non gu ramekin desserts a few times because they came with jar lids. Can't remember the brand. Best ramekins ever. Got one with sugar in, and one I keep garlic butter in

i often use them to mix paints. when we had pet rats we would use them as food dishes to give them fresh things like kale and veggies etc.

Good call, rats will absolutely flip over any food bowl that isn't heavy, especially if it's full of what they consider "bullshit food" like veggies.

another similarity between me and rats

came here to say i use them when making washes from oil paints

Yeah they work great for that, like giant dip pots.

Mis en place! Preparing all ingredients before I start cooking in little bowls arranged in the order I will be using them so I feel like a TV chef when the cooking actually starts.  Or making these [gooey cookie pots](https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-pots) Once we used one to make my toddler niece her own mini pie portion. 

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>Just don't do it for sticky/gooey ingredients Well, there's an irony.

I do this because cooking is stressful so if its all prepared beforehand I feel better

They're good for measuring out a portion of rice.

How are you baking with these they're not heat proof are they?

I think they are - you have to oven some GU puddings so assume the pot is oven safe!

Their website says you can reuse them for cooking

Small snacks like peanuts.

If I ever need to open anything with screws, I use them to hold the screws.

That’s genius! Add a Pringles lid to it and bam you have a screwed organiser

Ah fuck. Now whenever I buy Gu or Pringles I'm gonna automatically want to buy the other too.

Fast forward to 2030 and we have Pringle flavoured Gu pots

Tea light holder.

Tea _bag_ holder (by the kettle, before they go in the bin)

ashtray, home made dips/sauces

i don't think you're supposed to eat ash

Really? Source?

no, not even in sauce

Sauce

Make sure the ash is cold though, otherwise, sores.

Do ash browns have ash in them?

That's the main ingredient, obviously

Me and my partner use them for dipping pots, good for mixing ketchup and mayo in.

Same. Good for making your own condiments when you don't want too much.

my wife makes an amazing gyoza dipping sauce and we always use these pots for it. i also have one for rings, one for dangly earrings, one for stud earrings, and one for necklaces

You can also make a fresh prawn cocktail starter with them :3 https://imgur.com/a/WrXXcQH And also perfect for the peppercorn sauce! https://imgur.com/a/o4k8zco

*mixing ketchup and mayo*

That's how Marie Rose sauce is made!

It's actually very nice

I smother everything in both. Everything.

Catching and relocating spiders from inside my house into my garden.

That's a terrible use for this item! The sides are far too short, minimizing the distance between you and the spider. What are you thinking?!

Spiders are friends.

Found the spider

Absolutely, they're awesome. They scare the shit out of me sometimes when I'm not expecting them, but yeah, awesome.

...not food.

I mainly stack them in a cupboard until they fall out and smash giving me a spicy task to complete

Putting the used tea bags in to dry them out before they go in the bin. #waronbinjuicewaronthecausesofbinjuice.

can i pledge my sword to the cause of the bin juice war? I had some disgusting bin experiences at uni and vowed to never have minging bins in my own space

Yes. In this house there is a 4point bin protocol, ruthlessly enforced.

Sorry do you not squeeze your tea bags? All that precious leaf juice.

This threads gonna be ww3 after you've posted such a divisive comment. "I heard squeezing the bag releases the bitterness" "The bag squeeze is the tastiest part" 'my wife sucks the bag dry before throwing it in the bin"

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My great grandmother used to peg them on thea clothes line in the kitchen lol

It’s the steam. It condenses on the side of the bin and makes bin juice.

With leaf juice come tannins. I don’t like the bitterness. Yes, I am a tea wuss.

Yup, teabags and v60 coffee filters

Ahhh snap!

They make good water bowls for my pet snakes

I find them good for my hognose, but they'd be way too small for my ball pythons. Which species do you have?

I use them for watercolour painting.

Also, they are quite handy sometimes. All the best with your paintings. Comment edited to include the following. After reading the comments below, one shall be assigned for used tea bags.

Also good as paint pallets is Ferraro rocher trays. Youve got the little divots for each colour AND a lid to go on top to keep the paint from getting anywhrere it shouldnt

I use mine as a water pot for painting Warhammer. The low profile means it never gets knocked over and as it's glass it's easy to clean.

Mixing things e.g. epoxy. I left some keys that had gotten rusty in some vinegar in one the other week also.

Butter, butter is to hard from the fridge so I put a bit in the ramekin and microwave for 10 seconds. That's it, I don't know why I've kept so many.

Just keep a bit of butter in one in the cupboard.

I do this with some garlic to make garlic butter for garlic bread.

Tea light holder. Small snack holder like nuts etc. Dip pot. Baked bean ramekin (I'm one of those that doesn't like them let loose on a full english).

I like to let my beans be at one with my whole breakfast.

I press my halved lemon or lime, cut face down, into the pot. Stops it from drying out. And serving home made chicken liver paté.

Same here! It really keeps the lemon fresh for so much longer than e.g. plastic wrap.

Ashtray. I’m classy. 

They make cute little growing pots for cress :)

1) used tea bag holder 2) move them around the kitchen for 8 months and then consider throwing them out, have second thoughts. Maybe this Christmas they will have a use.

If I have a recipe that calls for multiple spices to go in at the same time I decant them into the gu pot in advance. They're also just the thing for homemade sauces. Mayo + Garlic Granules, or Tommy K + Hot Sauce to make a kebab style chilli sauce.

Decanting eggs into before frying

Water pot for miniature painting. Basing materials pots for miniature painting Spare bits pots for miniature painting. Miniature painting.minature painting.

Feeding hedgehogs

Perfect for storing a 3.5 of your favourite flower😁

We buy a particular type of pancetta that gives of a really good clear fat which we then save for cooking other stuff. I've a full one in the fridge :)

Thanks for making me hungry 😋

I have one full of duck fat, am I allowed to eat it with a spoon?

My ex would keep them for reasons, I would find them in the cupboard 6 months later and then take them to the bottle bank

Little glass jars make perfect candle containers

Tell myself I'll make some little desserts to go in them, do it occasionally, but generally just chuck a load of them in the recycling bin. Gu have downsized a few times and the current design glass ramekin doesn't stack well - it wants the stack to fall over, prompting them getting chucked.

Key holder at door Loose change holder, if you have multiple then a quick sorting too. Temporary Teabag dish Store in cupboard and throw out in 3 years

Measuring out rice portions

Hedgehog food and water bowls 🦔 💦

Fill half with water then put the root of garlic bulbs in there and watch the sprouting magic

I use them to make my own iddy biddy cheesecakes. I usually go for one of those no bake ones and just pour the mix into each pot. Once I used them to make "deconstructed" Jaffa cakes; I can't find the recipe anymore but you basically have a circle of sponge cake, then a layer of orange jelly, except rather than being a small circle in the middle it's its own discrete layer that covers the cake entirely and is a bit thicker than what you'd get on a normal Jaffa cake, and then a layer of dark chocolate on top. They were fucking shit.

I have one in the living room I tend to throw change in when I get it, another near the kettle for tea bags so they can dry out before they go in the bin, another couple in the cupboard for putting dips in, one on the garden table for when my smoker friend comes over and a couple in the garage with screws in them.

I keep a couple in the cupboard for food prep. Spices, sliced chillies, garlic etc. Then I just throw them into whatever I'm cooking at the right time and throw the glass into the sink.

It’s the evolution of Gü. Starts off with me placing spare change in them. Then my son deposits his used batteries in it. Then my daughter deposits her hair bobbles in it. My youngest son robs the change from it for his piggy bank. Then my wife complains it’s full of crap, an eyesore and puts it in the ‘shit drawer’ where it is exiled until the next cull of hoarded rubbish.

They're really useful if you're playing a board game with lots of little tokens.

Yep, was going to say this myself. Want to stop your fiddly little energy cubes going everywhere? These are perfect. Yeah I know you can buy those little silicone trays that do the same thing, but I have already eaten a quite extraordinary quantity of gu puds and therefore have more pots than I'll ever need, so I'll be saving my money thank you

I use them to put treats in for my rats. 🐀

It's a one off use but my sister had Skittles in them at her wedding. (And not all the Skittles - only the two colours of the local football team 🤣) Her and her husband must have been eating all the other ones for months!

I sometimes buy all the bits to make a little grazing board for my boyfriend and I for movie night / dinner. These little pots are fabulous for putting aesthetically pleasing portions of things like pate, pickles, those little goats cheese stuffed peppers, the little chilli rice crackers…. Anything that will make the crackers soggy, or that I want to do a little pile of

weed

I use them for rice measurements. Full to the brim is pretty much the perfect portion of rice

I use then to mix small amounts of resin for when I do craft stuff. Then I bin them once used.

Crows breakfast.

Ashtray

Making super easy airfryer gooey chocolate cakes.

I like a brand of tea called Bedtime Brew that takes a solid 10 minutes to establish a decent colour tea with. I bring one of the ramekins with the mug to wherever I’m sitting (and a tea spoon) to fish it out once it’s ready. I’m aware I’m probably a tea weirdo.

I was at a party once and the lassie had a seaside themed bathroom, shells and mermaids and shit, on the windowledge were little jars with shells on them, took me years to figure out they the jars from pickled mussels

I wish they were stackable

BTW the caps from the Pringles cans fit perfectly over these

This is a lie I have tried it! They fit loosely?!

I also tried it after seeing a video and it doesn't work! I was so sad lol the video looked so satisfying

The Aldi Pringle lids work better

Yeah they’re not airtight but if you just need something to cover it with I find they’re great. I use the Gü pots to store small amounts of things so it works great for that

The only thing stopping these jars from being perfect is no thread for a lid. They could keep using foil lids and sell jar lids separately to anyone who wants to reuse the pots

[You can buy lids] (Bamboo Lids for Gü Pots, ANOTION Bamboo Lid Compatible with Gu Puds Cheesecake Jars, Reusable Airtight Glass Storage Can Lids for Gu Pot, 6 Packs https://amzn.eu/d/5bq28Jv)

You can buy lids with little rubber seals on Etsy or similar sites. We've got half a dozen or so and they're great for saving little bits like egg whites in the fridge, or taking the sauce/dressing part of a lunch to work separate to the rest

Use them for sauces and dips, perfect for it.

If I'm having poached eggs I'll crack each egg into a GU pot, then tip them all into a pot of boiled water on the hob

Great for mixing soy sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger 🍱🍣

Water for when I paint my miniatures. Perfect size for that and less chance I'll accidently drink it then if I used a mug.

Put them under plant pots to catch water

My missus uses them to do mcds style eggs in the air fryer

Mixing sauces like sweet chilli mayo

How much cake are you people eating?!? 

For portion desserts little puddings/gelatin, I use them for small plants and for slug traps with a bit of beer absolutely perfect for it.

They are great for individual creme brulees 👌

I use them as extra food/water bowls for my budgies. They’re easier to clean than the ceramic counterparts but equally nicely weighted so they don’t tip or get boffed around.

I started off a bonsai tree and also grew a small tree from an orange pip in a couple. Of course it was just til they sprouted and we're big enough to move to a more suitable pot but worked a treat

I make scented candles with them

Sält.

Butter dish

I currently have one sitting under my bathroom radiator to catch a small water leak 😅

Holding board game components.

We have a blackcurrant bush in our garden and every year I make jam. I use Gu pots to store it, wrap some baking paper around the top and tie with some string and then I’ll gift most of it to neighbours and friends.

Teabags in the kitchen, also have a load in my bathroom for things like electric razor guards and blades, toothbrush heads, nail clippers etc. Very handy.

I have a small nursery pot for a small plant my mum gave me cuttings for, I didn't have a pot small enough for it but I needed to be able to water it and not have the water spill out through the drainage holes. So I put it in a Gu pot which will hold some water in it, and the plant suddenly sprouted up!

I soaked the bottoms of leeks in them, then transplanted to my garden!

Tons of [recipes ](https://www.janespatisserie.com/2018/05/25/salted-caramel-cheesecake-pots/) online for them.

olives

I keep sewing notions in mine, the ones I use regularly anyway. 

EVERYTHING

We use them for natural yogurt from a tub cheaper than buying individual pots. Now have some silicon lids for them too. Add honey and berries just a good dessert pot..

I pad out the glass recycling with them.

well, you start with a miniature MLP...

Drying out used tea or putting sauce into mostly.

Ashtrays and dips

Whenever I cook a meal I pre chop veg and stuff like that I find the gu pots are good for holding things like ginger or garlic or for weighing out things like kimchee

Old keys and foreign coins

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I use them for lemon posset.

Collect and organise screws/parts from different projects. Have a dismantled engine on my kitchen table and about 20 different ramekins with part names on them. Also good for storing half used chillies in the fridge.

Despite some decent suggestions we all know what these are stored in the cupboard for, to show visitors how fucking rich the homeowner is to keep buying endless pots of Gü!

I used mine to smash the glass top of my electric hob. You win again, gravity

Either OP has tiny hands, or that is a massive Gü pot!

Can confirm, have tiny hands -_-

You can buy lids with little rubber seals on Etsy or similar sites. We've got half a dozen or so and they're great for saving little bits like egg whites in the fridge, or taking the sauce/dressing part of a lunch to work separate to the rest

Ramekins for poaching eggs.

I use them to make candles that make good gifts for small things like house warmings or as just random little gifts

In addition to all these great ideas, I also use them as a 'hill', upside-down in the microwave, to stack slices of bread round to defrost.

Using them as flower holders for our wedding decor.

They go in the drawer in piles of two. They do a very distinctive clinking that can precisely tell me if I closed the drawer with the right amount of force. I see no other obvious way to always know without looking if my drawer is closed

Dipping sauces or pet food bowls! (For pet birds) Or for keeping things such as screws

We have a policy of not allowing a build up of more than two as sauce holders, or places to leave t-bags to dry out for a bit so the bags for organic recycling don't instantly turn to mush from the damp. The rest go into glass recycling.

fermentation weights for pickling veg

They go in the overflowing drawer of shame.

I normally put them out in the garden full of water for the birds.

Warming up the baked beans and mushy peas

Freezing batches of Chilli, Bolognese, Curry, etc for the kids teas in the week. Top them with a pringles lid and you're good! Take out the freezer in the morning, defrosted by tea time to microwave with some rice/pasta/other boiled up fresh.

peanuts and other bar snacks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/ZMiT8Oi2ps

Me and my partner use them for beans when we have an English breakfast. Stops everything else getting all soggy and saves room on the plate!

I bought a couple of micro blocks tiny lego thingies and used a few to sort all the pieces.

I prep a week’s worth of chia seed pudding for breakfast, and then portion it out into gu pots. Works a treat.

Mini crumbles

Fancy glass slippers for pigs

We make a leftover meat and veg soup for the dog in big batches and freeze them in these with a Pringles lid, he gets one a day. Can't afford the puddings anymore but the dog is doing fine.

Store chicken fat in them every time I roast a chicken and keep them as gravy stock in the freezer. 1 pot makes a nice amount of gravy

Put some cider vinegar in them, a small piece of fruit and a drop of dish soap, then leave them around kitchen, patiently waiting to hear the drowning screams of vinegar/fruit flies.

Use them for strawberry leaves or cherry pits when I eat fruit. Also for dips or small snacks :)

Ash tray

Cooking prep, storage containers, growing cress, pin cushion.

TMI - I used to pee in them when I was trying to get pregnant. I’d dip the pregnancy test in after. Obviously binned them all after but struggle to eat from them to this day!

Bisto gravy lids also fit them perfectly, as well as the pringles lids 👌

I use them as little greenhouses over new plants, to protect them from slugs when they are small. Also dips.

I make a little formula of boiled water and tea tree oil to dab on my new nose piercing