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Who here does pressure canning?
Posted on 3/10/21 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 3/10/21 at 4:56 pm
I can some stuff just using a hot water bath in a pot of boiling water but would like to start doing some pressure canning this year. Looking for suggestions on what type of pressure cooker , best place to buy cheap jars, technique , recipes , pics etc. thanks in advance.
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Posted on 3/10/21 at 6:31 pm to mouton
Posted on 3/10/21 at 8:31 pm to mouton
American Canner is only answer. Frickin bank vault. Should not terribly expensive. Don’t be cheap, safety is involved. Buy the very best you can. This us vert high quality chit
This post was edited on 3/11/21 at 6:50 am
Posted on 3/11/21 at 4:17 am to DocHolliday1964
I've pressure canned chili once. I got a Presto off of Ebay a while back. I was able to can 9 quarts - pretty good production I think. I was kind of scared, to be honest. I cooked it fully, then canned for 2 hours even though the instructions only said 90 minutes. Turned out great and nobody died.
I understand lids are a little hard to come by right now - people are canning like crazy during the COVID.
I understand lids are a little hard to come by right now - people are canning like crazy during the COVID.
Posted on 3/11/21 at 6:44 am to mouton
I have a jar of pressure canned deer meat in my desk drawer at work. I love my canner. I have a presto. I use it mostly for bone broth.
Posted on 3/11/21 at 9:05 am to mouton
OP, smart move on your part to inquire about safe canning for preserving food.
Hot water baths are just fine for things that are pretty highly acidic, but nowhere near safe for most other things.
I have a 22 qt. pressure canner I got off Amazon a few years ago and it has served me well. It comes with a nice book of instructions to can a variety of things with info as far as time, temperature, etc.
A pressure canner and vacuum sealer really up the game in food preservation.
I buy my jars at Rouses and generally buy quart jars with lids for around $13 or so a dozen. Ironically, pint jars by the dozen cost almost as much as the quart jars.
Hot water baths are just fine for things that are pretty highly acidic, but nowhere near safe for most other things.
I have a 22 qt. pressure canner I got off Amazon a few years ago and it has served me well. It comes with a nice book of instructions to can a variety of things with info as far as time, temperature, etc.
A pressure canner and vacuum sealer really up the game in food preservation.
I buy my jars at Rouses and generally buy quart jars with lids for around $13 or so a dozen. Ironically, pint jars by the dozen cost almost as much as the quart jars.
Posted on 3/11/21 at 10:32 am to mouton
All American is the best for pressure canning, there’s no gasket to go bad and it’s built like a tank. The presto 23 quarts work fine though and are good enough for most home canning. There’s lots of info out there, the only thing I can’t stress enough is to bring the heat down slowly, this will keep the contents of the jar from boiling out or busting the jars. I use tattler canning lids with stainless bands and silicone rings. Everything is reusable and you don’t have to worry about rust.
Edit: Use the regular store bought lids/bands for anything you plan on giving away.
Edit: Use the regular store bought lids/bands for anything you plan on giving away.
This post was edited on 3/11/21 at 10:39 am
Posted on 3/11/21 at 11:38 am to mouton
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Posted on 3/11/21 at 11:40 am to mouton
All american for the canner.
Fillmore container sells just about kind of jar or bottle you could imagine. Their prices are reasonable and they had stock last year when nobody else did.
Fillmore container sells just about kind of jar or bottle you could imagine. Their prices are reasonable and they had stock last year when nobody else did.
Posted on 3/11/21 at 2:04 pm to rooster108bm
We long ago simplified or canning and sence then have canned hundreds of jars only like 2 fails with a very simple method: put your jars in the oven set the oven to 220 and leave them there this is always our first step. place your lids submerged in a pot of water on a burner keep waater at a slow simmer. keep what ever you are canning in the pot at 200 use a thermometer to moniter this for stuff like gumbo we let it simmer. Grab a jar with a oven meat move it to ya work station place a funnel in it. Laddle in the hot product leaving a lil space on top place the lid on then the ring and tighten. we use pinchers on the hot lids. With the wife and I standing on different sides of the island we have it down to a streamed line process, When I reach in to the oven ad stand she puts the funnel in by the time I set it down she is laddeling in the stull I fish out a lid she removes the funnel I place lid ad ring she grabs it with a dish rag tightens and its easy peasy fast and simple ya just gotta watch cause every thing is hot
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