Canning question

[elalexander]

Hi and welcome Patriotic Stabilist. I hope you enjoy this site, I know we do. I just got home so I have to call the stove manufacturer. Guys at work pretty much are giving the same advice this thread is providing. It would keep the house cooler to can in the basement or garage or even on the patio. A turkey fryer, another stove etc. I have found an electric water bath canner on line. $259.00 -$299.00. I told the little woman we can get a second hand stove for half of that. We put a man on the moon, rovers on planets, surly someone has a work around for canning on a flat top stove.

 

[elalexander]

I just finished talking to a Frigidaire tech rep. She says canning is not recommended as you are not to exceed 25# on the stove top. The weight, of the canner and contents and the heat from canning can comprimise the stove top causing it to crack. Well we still have time to come up with a plan B. Who would have ever thunk it.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Well we still have time to come up with a plan B. Who would have ever thunk it.

If you have room for another stove, like a basement, start checking the want adds for a used stove. Could find one cheap since everyone is buying the flat tops.

David

 

[elalexander]

Just saw one in the paper a week or two ago Dave. $50.00, nice electric stove. Sold in a few days I'm sure.

 

[studor]

The guys at a hunt camp near me "jar" their venison every year on a propane "ring" (like a turkey fryer) on the back porch
Seems like a logical place to do preserves and probably heats faster than the electric stove as well

 

[greenmule]

Canning in a pressure canner is one of those things where more is not better,[heat I'm talking],remember its called a pressure canner]

 

[elalexander]

Yea Studor, I agree and you won't have the extra heat in the house either. I asked about a pressure canner because the time is reduced but the lady I spoke to still said it was not recommended. I'm glad someone told my wife or we could have had a big accident and maybe a serious burn as well. Kind of leaning towards the electric turkey fryer type. I know now with my luck I'd run out of propane half way through a batch.

 

[Bird]

I know now with my luck I'd run out of propane half way through a batch.

You're supposed to have two propane bottles. I have 4 outdoor propane "cookers" of one kind or another; a smoker, a grill, a turkey fryer, and a plain burner I use most for fish. So with 4 appliances, but only use one at a time, I have two 20# propane bottles.

 

[elalexander]

Hahaha Bird. I do have 2 20#s for our gas grill. If the kids come up on the weekend we do the charcoal and gas grill. We usually have a small campfire out back and my son wants a grill that swings over it so we can cook out there. As the crew keeps expanding we go through LP a lot. He have been talking about a turkey fryer for both frying and now canning. I did do a search and found this one at Walmart.
Walmart.com: Masterbuilt Digital Electric Turkey Fryer: Grills & Outdoor Cooking

Looks good, and it is electric so if I had to can inside no issue with fire etc. The better halve has her homework now.............find something to can with. The fryer will fill two bills, that for canning and Turkey frying. Either way I win in this one.

 

[Bird]

It'll be interesting to see how that electric turkey fryer works. Can you use that to heat a pressure cooker? That thing looks much like the "Fry Daddy" type of deep fryer. My wife fried the catfish for supper in her electric deep fryer tonight. For just the two of us, it wasn't worth the trouble to use the big LPG rig outdoors.

Eric, you might find these reviews interesting.