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    Canning Question

    Quote: Yeah, but I figured if the jar was cool enough to touch it wouldn't still be boiling. Of course, just as the high pressure of the pressure cooker raises the boiling point, with the expulsion of air the pressure inside the jar is lowered, so the boiling point would be lowered as well...
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    Canning Question

    Thanks Farmer Kitty. Rick
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    Canning Question

    I have rarely used our pressure cooker and did so today to can some soup. Don't think the soup is going to work out well (didn't think it through) but, nevertheless, it did bring up a general canning question and I figured there were experience folks here who could help out. Jars are in...
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    Buying my Pressure canner, any advice

    Everyone I have grown up with, everyone far and wide that I have known use the boiling bath water method for their canning needs...enough said Everyone I grew up with rode around without wearing seat belts. We all survived. My kids grew up wearing seat belts (as did I by that point). We can...
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    Buying my Pressure canner, any advice

    Regarding canning with water bath when pressure treating is recommended: It's a bit like crossing the street without looking on a rarely-traveled road -- you might get away with it for a lifetime, you might not. As long as you know and accept the risks, whatever; it's your family. But the risk...
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    I'm a grand prize winner!! Woohoo!!

    First, congrats on the win! Second, first thing that popped into my mind: http://www.bodock.org/PostImages/2008/NinjaChick.jpg Rick
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    How do raccoons get in coops and pens to kill?

    Of course, it could be that some folks are at work right now and haven't read it. Rick (on vacation today but no chickens, so no idea)
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    Apartment Chickens

    one of the characters had a silky chicken and a duck in their apartment. I'm going to guess and say Seinfeld Nope, it was Friends. Rick
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