What are you canning now?

[I*Eat*Chickens*Yum]

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Wow. great pic. Awesome job !

 

[Msbear]

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The problem for me, isn't the weight of the pots on my ceramic stove, it is the fact that the burners don't get hot enough to get more than 5lbs. of pressure on the canner. The burners cut on an off and don't heat high consistently to maintain the pressure.

Im opening up a small take-out service out of my garage. (I live on a high traffic rd and figured may as well utilize while staying at home with my kids. We're in the process of converting it to a kitchen and we got a new/used (a stove that the people used as a kitchen clock for $100 and thankfully it's a simple coil stove. So next year, we'll be doin some serious canning and maybe I can sell some in my store!! www.dinner2go.biz probably won't be open till November now -hubby's slackin

 

[thepetpaw]

Ok - I got the hatchahlich bug from this site and now I am getting the canning bug. I guess i am going to have to go out and buy a canner - plant a garden and start canning some stuff also....I love all this stuff!!!!

 

[ninjapoodles]

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I started with produce from the farmer's market and local growers, since my gardening is all about EPIC FAIL. Hopefully I'll get better at THAT part next year!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

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I wish my tomatoes would ripe that many at a time! The weather just keeps them chugging along with enough to do a few quarts here and a few quarts there. I do have 19 quarts down though with more in cooking down to do today!

 

[Msbear]

I have to agree with petpaw. Reading this thread gave me a second wind so Im heading out to Orr's farm market here in WV and stocking up on some stuff to do jam. Hope the blackberries are still rockin...they were two weeks ago.

I can hit my Dad's farm too. He has some awesome heirloom variety grapes that taste just like blueberries. My son loves them. He's almost two and just yells "BLUES!" whenever he sees them.

 

[ole-crone]

Do hit your local Farmers Markets and talk to the vendors. Here it is winding down and when the market ends, some have no where to sell their produce. They might make you some sweet deals if you buy in bulk.

 

[Acre of Blessings]

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I do this all the time, even in the winter. I can Pintos, Kidney, Navy, Northern, Black, Cannellini and others. I like the fact I can pop a top instead of cooking a whole crock full. Also dry beans are good only if you have water, so if the powers out you can still have beans

 

[JennsPeeps]

I've been thinking about canning some dried beans, too. I mean, it's great to have dried beans in the pantry for meals when I can plan 2 days ahead but on a normal day, or even normal weekend, I'm not too inclined to soak the beans overnight, cook, them, then add to whatever meal they're planned for!

Canned beans are pricey, too!

 

[menageriemama]

Well, we (my mom and I) have been up to our eyeballs in tomatos, and we just finished putting up 20 quarts. Whew!! I think next year we need to put aside one whole day to can, no cooking other stuff, no visitors, just can and chat all day long