Quote: Wow does that sound like my kitchen at canning time. I do have a gas stove, but I can only fit 1 canner on at a time. I too have to keep my jars in the dishwasher right up to the time I need them. I have very little countertop & no island so when I'm canning I have to put a card table up for extra space. This summer while making the pickling solution for a type of pickle that takes 2 weeks to make. I had one of the table legs collasp as I was pulling it across the kitchen. 1 container of chuck pickles & 8 cups of sweetened pickling solution hit the floor. It was a horrible sticky mess, the worst part was all the spices that make up pickling spice spread all over. Of course I was in the middle of canning something else so I threw towels at the mess & a hour later had to try to clean it up, uggh
Oh No! I had a shelf go out in the canning pantry, crash into the shelf below it, the doors came open and the jars crashed onto all the brineing pickles and citrus extracts I was making below. We stood in the kitchen waiting for the last 'tinkle' before we opened the door. It was like a giant threw up in there.
The worst part was losing all of my wide mouth jars.
We need a canning nightmare thread, but then no one would want to do it.
The good thing was the lemon and orange extracts I was making neutralized the smell.
Picked up 3 rectangle sink buckets last year for the pears since we had so many, paired with my smallest cutting board and I am in heaven. And since the 10 month old has decided to velcro himself to my sweatpants and quickly pulls them off, they are now in a puddle on the floor and hes playing in them. So 2 smart ideas today for my house, time for more Peppermint Mocha coffee for me as we start naptime fights.
