Canning question

Patriotic Stabilist · Mar 29, 2009

I use the big pressure canner both inside and outside, but the waterbath primarily outside.

My stove has glass under the gas burners, but it has grids that raise the pans way above the stove top, so really no issue for me. I doubt I would can on a flat glass stove top. I think that could easily ruin it.

Patriotic Stabilist · Mar 29, 2009

I know this is way off topic. But hubby and I just celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary. He sent me a GPS/back up camera for my truck, that's what I wanted. We will have to find something he wants to get for his anniversary present. I just know it will be tools.

I pick him up tomorrow at the airport, he is flying in from Qatar, will be home for 2 1/2 weeks, then gone again for 8 weeks, no, 10 weeks, next time as his backup guy changed his plans. I will be SOOOO glad to see him.

Also glad to see him because he needs to put a new belt on my big mower.

I don't know how I managed to break a mower deck belt that big on a 61 inch cut Scag but I did and I also tore up the chute cover. He said don't tear up the deck please they are expensive.

Anyway guys, he didn't forget our anniversary

Bird · Mar 29, 2009

Congratulations, newlyweds! We're just 30 days from our 44th.

Patriotic Stabilist · Mar 29, 2009

Just doesn't seem that long. In our minds we are still young, but the body is a give away, though both of us are trying to keep our weight down and I'm helping my DD to do the same. It's the healthy thing for us to be. Our blood pressures are great, cholesterol is up a bit but not bad. None of us take blood pressures meds, cholesterold meds, or have any pre diabetic conditions. Sinuses and bone aches are DD and I's big issues. Hubby really doesn't have any. We attribute it to physically working much as we can and keeping active, it does pay off.

Thanks for removing that note, I don't like to see dupls like that.

And hey congrats to you and the missus!!

laen64 · Mar 30, 2009

Hey Bird please post some of the Canning recipes man you could just make me hungrey with the conversation and the healthy choices to boot.

I will plant on as much of the property as the OWMBO (one who must be obeyed) will allow. some of my family does can and I can't wait to relocate to be closer.

Thanks in advance

Bird · Mar 30, 2009

Larry, I don't remember the recipes and don't know what my wife may have done with them. We had to move back to town for family reasons a little over 6 years ago and I know we got rid of the big pressure cookers. Some recipes were in manuals for the newer cooker (of course we didn't have a manual for the cooker that had belonged to my grandparents and was still in use). And of course you can find recipes for almost anything on the Internet.

Patriotic Stabilist · Mar 30, 2009

Buy a Ball Canning Book, they have information for about anything you want to can.

mn_voyageur · Apr 4, 2009

I know that I am late to this party, but I wanted throw in my two cents.

I gave up the 20 pound cylinders about 5 years ago. I switched to 40's when the lady told me it was $15 to fill a 20 and $18 to fill a 40!

And they fit nicely under the side burner of my grill.

My wife does the canning in a water bath. How do you can using a pressure cooker? The last time I saw a pressure cooker in use, there was sweet potatoes on the ceiling! (It was promptly put away, never to be seen again!)

elalexander · Apr 5, 2009

Hello and welcome. We never used a pressure cooker to can, but rather a pressure canner. The one my MIL had had weights on it, no gague. I think as of now we have decided on getting a 1300 watt single burner hot plate to do the water bath on. We currentlt don't have a pressure canner, but they run around 90-100 bucks. Different veggies need different canning methods. Low acid/high acid foods.

The water bath works for one but the other needs higher temps to kill all of the molds and spores and other nasty stuff.

As you can see, if you have a question someone on this site will have already been there and done that. A really great group of people. Glad you dropped by, and yes 40# cylinders are a bit cheaper to get filled.

mn_voyageur · Apr 5, 2009

I found " Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving" on Amazon. Is this the book that everyone is referring to on this thread? If it is, I will have to buy it.