Canners and Other Equipment
Complete Water Bath Canner Kit
This is the same type of standard canner that my grandmother
used to make everything from applesauce to jams and jellies to tomato and
spaghetti sauce!. This complete kit includes everything you need:
the canner, jar rack, jar grabber tongs,
lid lifting wand, six pint jars with lids and rings, a plastic funnel,
labels, bubble freer, and the bible of canning, the Ball Blue Book. You'll
never need anything else except more jars and lids!
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Pressure canners!
If you want to can low-acid foods such as red meats, sea food, poultry, milk, and all fresh vegetables with the exception of most tomatoes, you will need a pressure canners. These foods fit into the low acid group since they have an acidity, or pH level, of 4.6 or greater. The temperature which must be reached and maintained (for a specified amount of time) to kill the bacteria is 240 F. Ordinary water bath canners can only reach 212 F and can not to kill the types of bacteria that will grow in low acid foods. This temperature can be reached only by creating steam under pressure as achieved in quality pressure canners such as the highest quality All American Pressure Canner. They are more expensive, but extremely well built - I bought mine in 1988 and it still looks and works like new!
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Books
Canning books
Canning & Preserving for Dummies
by Karen Ward
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The Ball Blue Book of Preserving
This is THE book on canning! My grandmother used this book when I was a child. It tells you in simple instructions how to can almost anything; complete with recipes for jam, jellies, pickles, sauces, canning vegetables, meats, etc. If it can be canned, this book likely tells you how! Click on the link below for more information and / or to buy (no obligation to buy)
Price $8.95
Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving
by United States Dept. of Agriculture
Practical, easy-to-follow guide contains virtually everything consumers need to know about home canning: how to select, prepare, and can fruits, vegetables, poultry, red meats and seafoods; how to preserve fruit spreads, fermented foods and pickled vegetables; how to prepare foods for special diets, and much more. Also includes scores of simply written recipes that even beginners can handle (smoked fish, turkey-tamale pie, chicken croquettes, more. It's the second book to get, after the Ball Guide. Click on the link below for more information and / or to buy (no obligation to buy)
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Canning Supplies
Lids, Rings and Jars
Need lids, rings and replacement jars?
Get them all here, delivered direct to your home, at the best prices on the internet!
Pectin, Pickle Mixes and Sauce/Salsa Mixes
Making Jam? Need Pectin, but the local store is
out?
Is your jam too runny? Pectin enables you to turn out
perfectly set jam every time. Made from natural apples, there are also
low-sugar pectins that allow you to reduce the sugar you add by almost
half!
Pickling Mixes and Pickling Supplies
Pickles
Whether you want dills or sweet pickles; canning them or straight into
the refrigerator; there is a mix for every taste and need here!
Get everything you need to make pickles:
mixes, salt, brine, etc. here!
Sauce and Salsa Mixes
(Shown is Ball brand - actual is Mrs. Wages brand)