Living in the south, I struggled with the heat in the kitchen issue when canning also, but not anymore. One day, I will have my outside kitchen but for now we use a simple propane fish/turkey cooker outside for all our canning and jelly needs, it took a little practice regulating the...
Raw packmeans you just place the raw carrots into the canning jars. Cover with boiling water and then load them into your pressure canner. It’s much simpler to be sure, as it’s much simpler to pack cool carrot slices than it is boiling hot ones. Hot packoften results in higher quali...
When you’re trying to figure out amounts, I find that the best way to divvy up the raw hamburger is to weigh it out into 3/4 pound sections (for pint jars) or 1 1/2 pound sections (for quart jars) using afood scale. Preparing the meat for canning is easy: just brown the grou...
using store-bought, already peeled baby carrots. We did not notice a discernible difference in raw pH over raw large, peeled carrots, but we were not specifically trying to make those comparisons, either. (In other words, the pH of the store-bought baby carrots was well within the expected...