Canning and Home preserving

[wyoDreamer]

The water was pressure canned, simply because she used it to fill up the canner when canning something else. Fro instance, if your pressure canner will hold 7 quart jars and your recipe only makes 5 jars of stuff - add 2 jars of water to the canner to fill it up.

If anyone is looking to buy a Water Bath canner - I highly recommend that you buy a steam canner instead. I love my steam canner! The steam canner has been "officially" approved for use of any water bath canning recipes by the University Extension offices. I love that it uses less water and is lighter to move when full. WE have really hard water so I buy filtered water for canning so using less water is huge for me.

 

[perchie.girl]

I started with potatoes because it was winter. You can also can meat you buy in bulk.

Here we have a store called Smart and Final. It started out as a restaurant supply store then expanded to allow people to by retail. I bought a Whole Brisket there for like fifty dollars. We are talking twenty five to thirty pounds of meat... they also have a few primals now and then but I don't know how to break them down.

The object is I want to learn how to make Corned beef... From there you take a portion of the corned beef coat it in herbs and smoke it... Then its pastrami. I will freeze some for when I have guests but most of the rest will be canned.

When I am living at home Beef and pork will be rare to buy in the store. So I will be living off poultry... eggs and meat. But Muscovy ducks are a red meat and huge. You can do the "corned beef" processes. for preserving. I also want to try my hand at Hard sausage making. I need to find an old refrigerator for that...

By the way old refrigerators are an excellent choice for cold smoking... heat and smoke are generated outside and blown in where it exits out the top.

Alton Brown has a great video of converting a cardboard box into a cold smoker. they do get hot but not hot enough to burn cardboard.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

The water was pressure canned, simply because she used it to fill up the canner when canning something else. Fro instance, if your pressure canner will hold 7 quart jars and your recipe only makes 5 jars of stuff - add 2 jars of water to the canner to fill it up.

If anyone is looking to buy a Water Bath canner - I highly recommend that you buy a steam canner instead. I love my steam canner! The steam canner has been "officially" approved for use of any water bath canning recipes by the University Extension offices. I love that it uses less water and is lighter to move when full. WE have really hard water so I buy filtered water for canning so using less water is huge for me.

the deal killer with steam canners for me was you cant double stack them. But my goodness they store small and the process is much quicker because there is less water to boil.

I would love to have one for small batches for sure.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

You will get there. Time and patience....and following doctors orders of course.

Your progress so far is impressive.

thankyou.... I got discouraged yesterday I felt huge. But today I found a pair of pants and I checked the size 5x I held them up and I could have fit one more leg in them. I am going to keep them around as a reminder.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Us? Chatty? Never! That is a great idea about canning water! Hot bath or pressure? I'm ordering parts today to refurbish my MIL's old National pressure canner, can't wait to can some bone broth!

I imagine you can do both.

I am going to look it up

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

You are doing super there Perchie.. recall the day there was no u tube or Alton Brown on tv or fabulous cooking shows

 

[FortCluck]

thankyou.... I got discouraged yesterday I felt huge. But today I found a pair of pants and I checked the size 5x I held them up and I could have fit one more leg in them. I am going to keep them around as a reminder.

deb

I'm sure you've made a ton of progress! Trust me I get this way too. I'm plant based but during the holidays I splurge and eat vegetarian... I gained 10 lbs over the past 3 days its mostly water weight, but tell my pants that because they won't fit today I feel like a beached whale right now, but I just made a vow to myself that I'll stay plant based no matter what the circumstance until next new year's! By them I won't want to eat vegetarian because I'm sure I'll drop a ton of weight.

I lost about 70ish lbs going plant based so gaining those 10 lbs regardless if it's water or not really upsets me!

Here's a hug because I know somewhat how you feel we may be somewhat different in our eating habits, but we are both striving for health

 

[perchie.girl]

I imagine you can do both.

I am going to look it up

deb

Ok from what I read pressure canning, water bath canning, and inversion canning are all appropriate for canning water

https://www.loavesanddishes.net/how-to-can-water-for-emergencies/

they also show how much water to keeep on hand and some uses I never thought of.. As in its steril when you pressure can and can be used to wash out cuts... Nice.

My water comes out of the well and travels through a thousand feet of pipe to get tomy house. It smells like sulphur but if you let it sit for a while the smell goes away. From what I have read the smell is from bacteria that line the pipes... Not harmful but off putting to some people ... Like my former roommate... long story.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I'm sure you've made a ton of progress! Trust me I get this way too. I'm plant based but during the holidays I splurge and eat vegetarian... I gained 10 lbs over the past 3 days its mostly water weight, but tell my pants that because they won't fit today I feel like a beached whale right now, but I just made a vow to myself that I'll stay plant based no matter what the circumstance until next new year's! By them I won't want to eat vegetarian because I'm sure I'll drop a ton of weight.

I lost about 70ish lbs going plant based so gaining those 10 lbs regardless if it's water or not really upsets me!

Here's a hug because I know somewhat how you feel we may be somewhat different in our eating habits, but we are both striving for health

I am a life time member of weight watchers one of the things that stuck in my mind during one of the lectures... Weather you have a hundred pounds to lose or Ten pounds to loose the effort is the same. We all know how it feels.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

You are doing super there Perchie.. recall the day there was no u tube or Alton Brown on tv or fabulous cooking shows

Ah but there was PBS. Julia Childs, Frugal Gourmet, Graham Kerr, and a couple of others had shows on there.

deb