Safe to Pressure Can Raw Beans???

[texasgal]

Pressure depends on where you live. If you're new to canning, I suggest going to YouTube and watching a dozen videos on pressure canning for beginners.. It's VERY important you know the basics (like that pressure depends on where you live) and when to start timing, etc.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I've pressure canned before. I use the canning book and as I recall it doesn't say anything about location. I'm familiar with the timing and all that. I canned cooked beans, as I said above. But the book doesn't give instructions for canning raw beans, it says to cook them first. Thanks for your help.

 

[texasgal]

Appropriate pressure can vary by what altitude you live at. I live very close to sea level so I can at 10 lbs of pressure on my weighted gauge canner. Some charts will adjust according to what you are canning and what altitude you live at.

 

[texasgal]

Also, if the food is room temp when it goes in the jar (raw beans), then the jars and water need to be a room temp and the canner needs to be at room temp.

If the food is hot (you cook the beans first) THEN the jars, water, and canner need to be hot.

Happy canning!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Also, if the food is room temp when it goes in the jar (raw beans), then the jars and water need to be a room temp and the canner needs to be at room temp.

If the food is hot (you cook the beans first) THEN the jars, water, and canner need to be hot.

Happy canning!

Thank you! I remember when I canned the cooked beans a year or so ago, I canned at 11 lbs of pressure and everything was hot. I'm barely over sea level myself. Again, thank you for your help! It's tricky holding the pressure steady on my glasstop stove but with careful supervision I did manage.

 

[texasgal]

Yep.. it takes a few times to get used to stove settings until u figure out your stove. That can all be a little different!