leaving about 3-5 inches at the top to allow for room for your filled jars. If you don’t have a rack, you can line the bottom with a folded towel. Bring your water to a boil. Because it takes forever and a day to bring that much water to a boil, I generally start ...
So this next time, I will not be as concerned about not having enough head space, and fill the jar to the brim with water, knowing in the processing, more air will rise to the top. Reply Shannon says: August 7, 2014 at 9:55 am Every year I plant way too much zucchini, and ...
Again, ask around, your grand-aunt’s cousin may have a presto in her basement, yes, it may be yellow! but that retro is back in stock!! You can use a pressure canner bottom to water bath you’re jars… you cannot use a water bath canner to can the low acid food. ...
How much water do I Need to use in a pressure canner? How much water do I need to use in a pressure caner? ‘Ive been using 3″-4″ for my quarts and I was told that I needed to fill the canner up to the lids. Is this right?Sharon’s Answer:When you are pressure canning, ...
Pot has expanded: The metal of your pressure cooker's body may have expanded more than the metal of the lid, especially if you've been cooking at high heat. Moving your cooker to the kitchen sink, and running cool water on it for a few moments, may free the lid. ...
or barley in your pot. Instead, it just runs a preprogrammed cook time for the item you’ve selected. It also doesn’t know how much of a single ingredient you have in your pot. Regardless of whether you have a single chicken breast or a whole chicken in your pot, it just runs the...
Someone said, “As much as I like Shadrach here, he’s not quite as tender as Shorty was last year.” With a nod to Carla (‘too bad we can’t recycle people in the same way’), the past their prime animal friends here were “dispatched” as senior senior citizens, not simmered ...