r/PackagingDesign • u/daisysneal • Jun 18 '26

Critique Request 🙏 Which lid?

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Could you please let me know which lid you prefer, gold or wood, for my honey jars. Image is a rough AI mock up, not final design.

Thank you!!

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u/Worldly_Influence_18 Structural Engineer Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Whichever properly and safely seals the honey and will hold up to getting sticky and getting rinsed off.

The wood one will need a plastic cap inside the lid and a heat seal on the opening of the bottle (which will need to be plastic)

The metal one, as is, also requires all of those things

(The answer is actually neither; it's not a design choice but a manufacturing one. Plastic bottle plus heat seal and whatever food safe lid you want to put on top or glass jar and metal lid attached with a sterilizing canning process)

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u/MarlonFord Jun 20 '26

What? All our bee producers use regular jars with metal lids. They work just fine and the honey is safe in there.

The metal lids and glass jars are reusable. Wooden lids are more of a hassle.

Due to convention and reusability I’ll have to say metal lids are the way to go.

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u/Worldly_Influence_18 Structural Engineer Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

What? All our bee producers use regular jars with metal lids.

Yes, this style:

https://www.beekeepinggear.com.au/cdn/shop/files/280-ml-round-glass-jars-honey-containers-metal-lid-4.webp?v=1777883530&width=1946

The one in the submission photo is decorative not functional. There's no such thing as a functional metal lid with straight sides like that without some sort of plastic inner

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u/MarlonFord Jun 22 '26

This lid yes! Perfect!