Canning for the first time
01-08-2002, 07:54 PM
#11
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: By Da River OR USA
Posts: 31
RE: Canning for the first time
Smokepole,
I forgot to add,,,,,
The jar that didn't seal for you.
Try inspecting the jarlip after you've consummed the food and the jar is sparkling clean. Could be a baaaaaad jar lip???
U kno, all those Canning Jars can be frozen too. I'd advise just using Widemouth Jars for freezing. The Smallmouth Jars tend to break when food swells during freezing.
nohunt
I forgot to add,,,,,
The jar that didn't seal for you.
Try inspecting the jarlip after you've consummed the food and the jar is sparkling clean. Could be a baaaaaad jar lip???
U kno, all those Canning Jars can be frozen too. I'd advise just using Widemouth Jars for freezing. The Smallmouth Jars tend to break when food swells during freezing.
nohunt
01-09-2002, 02:18 PM
#12
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern, VA
Posts: 163
RE: Canning for the first time
Why would I want to freeze the jar and contents? I thought one of the big advantages of canning is that I can store them on the shelf and save freezer space?
Again, I'm learnin here so any insight will be much help.
Again, I'm learnin here so any insight will be much help.
01-09-2002, 03:17 PM
#13
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: By Da River OR USA
Posts: 31
RE: Canning for the first time
smokpole
CANNING 101, in session again. Haaaa
hey Smoke, we just don't can everything we want to SAVE UP.
e.g. I got a friend picking up a ton of oranges in Calif., hand picked for me.
Can't Can Orange Juice. Freezing is the only way to save it for later. Those widemouth canning jars work perfect.
You make that big pot of stew or whatever and you guys eat all you want. Not enough left over to fire up Canning over. Freeze it. Put stew meat in jars while warm to hot , lids on and into the freezer it goes.
It will vacuum seal. Honest, it will. Stay fresher that way.
I jest tossed in freezing for alternative uses for all the jars you will acquire.
I run across a 1900 Canning Recipe Warning today at an old favorite web site of mine and it made me think of you just starting out and what other's comments about Canning were. Canning is not that old and there were a lot of deaths over Botulism.
The ole later 1800s & early 1900s Home Canning Recipes for meats were a NO NO to do.
Back then it was primarily 'Hot water Bath' method. Boiling at 212 degrees just will not kill out Botulism spores.
Rest easy, you run the temps up to 240-degrees in your Canning of meats.
nohunt
CANNING 101, in session again. Haaaa
hey Smoke, we just don't can everything we want to SAVE UP.
e.g. I got a friend picking up a ton of oranges in Calif., hand picked for me.
Can't Can Orange Juice. Freezing is the only way to save it for later. Those widemouth canning jars work perfect.
You make that big pot of stew or whatever and you guys eat all you want. Not enough left over to fire up Canning over. Freeze it. Put stew meat in jars while warm to hot , lids on and into the freezer it goes.
It will vacuum seal. Honest, it will. Stay fresher that way.
I jest tossed in freezing for alternative uses for all the jars you will acquire.
I run across a 1900 Canning Recipe Warning today at an old favorite web site of mine and it made me think of you just starting out and what other's comments about Canning were. Canning is not that old and there were a lot of deaths over Botulism.
The ole later 1800s & early 1900s Home Canning Recipes for meats were a NO NO to do.
Back then it was primarily 'Hot water Bath' method. Boiling at 212 degrees just will not kill out Botulism spores.
Rest easy, you run the temps up to 240-degrees in your Canning of meats.
nohunt
01-10-2002, 01:33 AM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 213
RE: Canning for the first time
My first year canning also. After all the reading, seemed we could only can the tomato products and pickles because we didn't have a pressure canner. Froze everything else. Seems you can get deathly ill if not done correctly. Be careful, this is where grandma comes in handy.
01-10-2002, 04:05 AM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: By Da River OR USA
Posts: 31
RE: Canning for the first time
Bud Light
If you don't already have one or two Canning booklets.
Next time you go shopping at some big store or to Wallyworld (Wal-Mart), there's always an aisle with Canning Supplies. Usually a booklet by Ball (Ball Jars & Lids) or a couple others is sold there too.
Quite a few things you can 'Hot-Water-Bath' Can without a Pressure Cooker.
nohunt
If you don't already have one or two Canning booklets.
Next time you go shopping at some big store or to Wallyworld (Wal-Mart), there's always an aisle with Canning Supplies. Usually a booklet by Ball (Ball Jars & Lids) or a couple others is sold there too.
Quite a few things you can 'Hot-Water-Bath' Can without a Pressure Cooker.
nohunt
