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7:05 pm
November 6, 2009
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wvhomecanner
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Will be anxious to hear your results!
Dede
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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." ~ The Lorax by Dr. Seuss ~
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12:53 pm
December 12, 2009
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Leahld22
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You guys please tell me what kind of canner I need to get. I've helped with canning gr beans and preserves before,but it's been awhile. So I'm lurking around here trying to get some knowledge about canning.
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12:57 pm
December 12, 2009
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CindyP
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This is the one I got this year, Leah. It works great for a hot water bath and for pressure canning! It's still 10% off and free shipping!!
http://www.everyespressomachin…..ku=PTO1038
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Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. ~ Cherie Carter-Scott
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1:01 pm
December 12, 2009
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Leahld22
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Nice!!! I'm going to call Mom !st to see if she still has/uses hers and what kind of shape it's in. But this is a very good deal. Ans the phone Mom!
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1:02 pm
December 12, 2009
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wvhomecanner
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That IS a really good deal Cindy ! And big enough that you can double stack pint jars. The only drawback for some people in using these for water bath is that it is a heavy pot. You can buy an inexpensive stockpot with a lid that is at least 10" tall, stick a cookie/cake cooling rack in it an use that as a water bath canner.
If you can handle the weight of the PC (it's not THAT heavy, but for some it's too much) buy a PC and it's the only processing pot you will need.
Dede
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3:38 pm
December 12, 2009
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Leahld22
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Do I have to lift the canner with everything in there? I have trouble with just a pan of food,or a stack of plates sometimes. ( have one of the 2 signs of carpel tunnel, and not much upper body strength).
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3:58 pm
December 12, 2009
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Pete
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Leah, I use the big PC, but never attempt to move it filled. I place the empty canner on the burner, then put in the water, then heat, then add the filled jars. After processing, you remove the jars and let the canner cool before dumping the water (however many loads you do using the same water). The PC doesn't take that much water, so I can usually handle it when it comes time to dump it.
A water bath canner takes a whole lot more water. That one I usually must dip out a significant amount of the water to lighten the load prior to dumping the water out.
The one that I have not figured out how to move without straining is the deep kettle with the sterilized jars in it. Theoretically, my dishwasher is handy to my canning station and I could use it instead of sterilizing in the kettle and moving it. But, I have a kind of phobia about allowing the clean jars to sit around in the air both cooling and attracting germs. I use a fairly large stock pot for sterilizing, leave those sterilized jars in the hot water and retrieve them as needed from the hot water. But, I could simply use smaller pans for the sterilization step. That would just require changing a habit… 
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4:38 pm
December 12, 2009
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wvhomecanner
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Remember that it has been proven in a lab and approved by the USDA that as long as a jar of food is processed for at least 10 minutes (whether by water bath or pressure canning) pre-sterilization is not needed. The jar is sterilized after the 10 minutes of process time. That's a habit worth changing
Leah, you don't have to ever move the canner when it's full. Any pot used as a water bath canner is going to be heavy from the volume of the water. You may need to bail water out to lighten the load before emptying or moving it, but like Cindy said, one pot of water can process many loads before you have to do that.
I have a big Amish canner that fits across two burners that I use for big batch canning (especially when doing tomato stuff). The canner is SS but not heavy at all when empty but takes about 5 gallons of water to process a double stacked load. I have to bail water to empty it! But I use the water over and over first unless I have a jar break and yuk up the canner water. Rare, thankfully.
Just for fun, here's a pic of a friend's identical canner and what he canned the first time he used it
 
dede
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6:53 pm
December 12, 2009
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Pete
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Understand on the sterilization issue, but I am so accustomed to heating the jars in water that I am not sure I will ever stop doing it. I have become less attentive to the actual boiling time, as if to seriously sterilize them, though. Really, I am just heating them.
If you have a better way to heat them and keep them heated, I'd like to hear it! I like to have the water heated in the water bath/PC, and put heated product into heated jars.
I have some cold soup in the refrig that I'm thinking seriously about putting into cold jars and into a cold PC. Not sure if that would heat up quicker than doing the hot jars, hot soup, into hot PC routine, but it seemed like a good opportunity to try something different!
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7:14 pm
December 12, 2009
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Suzanne
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Dede, wow, that pictures is AMAZING.
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7:41 pm
December 12, 2009
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wvhomecanner
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Suzanne said:Dede, wow, that pictures is AMAZING.
Well, I have a pic of my Ashland canner, but HIS kitchen is waaayyyy nicer and he did such a nice job on the pic! That is two loads in that canner IIRC – on the left pickled okra and on the right Bread & Butter pickles (my recipe).
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7:47 pm
December 12, 2009
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wvhomecanner
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Pete said:
If you have a better way to heat them and keep them heated, I'd like to hear it! I like to have the water heated in the water bath/PC, and put heated product into heated jars.
I have some cold soup in the refrig that I'm thinking seriously about putting into cold jars and into a cold PC. Not sure if that would heat up quicker than doing the hot jars, hot soup, into hot PC routine, but it seemed like a good opportunity to try something different!
I warm and hold my jars in my oven except in very hot and humid weather. Saves a bunch of water as a bonus and no wet slippery glass to handle. If I had a dishwasher I would sometimes run my jars through there to wash them and time the canning to make use of the jars hot right from the dishwasher.
You sure can cold pack the soup. If it were me though I would warm the soup and fill room temp jars and put in the canner in warm water and go from there. Likely the same energy expenditure either way.
Dunno  LOL
dede
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8:37 pm
December 12, 2009
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Leahld22
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That picture is neat! I want to can me some soups! I would love just grabbing a jar of homemade soup off the shelf for supper!
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10:33 am
December 13, 2009
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BuckeyeGirl
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Yes, Dede is definitely a bad/good influence! I'm going to have to order one of those pressure cookers… It is a really good price from what I can find, and I was debating between a PC and a dehydrator. I decided that a dehydrator will turn up on freecycle or craigslist if I just keep my eyes open.  I'd rather get the pressure canner new with all the documentation and information current, a dehydrator is a little less worrisome to buy used. Besides, my gas oven with the pilot lite, (yes, wasteful in a way till the power goes out!!) works ok for some things for now.
I think my christmas wish of a digital camera will wait a while.
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