WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

[tortoise]

I canned praline syrup for DH's birthday gift. 5 quarter-pints. I love these little jars already!

Fast and easy recipe from Ball complete canning book

 

[tortoise]

I have a crockpot full of meaty tomato sauce (yum!), no space in the fridge, and my canner is hot. I'm canning tomato sauce quarts then!

 

[Hinotori]

I use quarter pints when making lotion. They also work well in lunch boxes. Useful little things.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Now that we got a stove with a glass stovetop do I need to do anything different for canning? I read that water bath canners aren't flat bottomed (I have to go and dig mine out) and can cause a pocket of air and the stove top can crack. I could can with a propane or electrical burner outside but then I worry about air temperature. UGH. I didn't even think about canning when DH picked out the stove.

 

[tortoise]

Now that we got a stove with a glass stovetop do I need to do anything different for canning? I read that water bath canners aren't flat bottomed (I have to go and dig mine out) and can cause a pocket of air and the stove top can crack. I could can with a propane or electrical burner outside but then I worry about air temperature. UGH. I didn't even think about canning when DH picked out the stove.

some people say it's fine, but my previous stovetop couldn't keep a loaded canner hot enough to maintain a boil or maintain pressure and the burner I used for canning never worked quite right after that. I have been told that it has to do with the weight of a fully loaded canner doing something to the sensors? Some people don't have a problem at all though.

I don't can on my stovetop. I use electric water bath canner or electric digital pressure canner. Or I use a propane burner outdoors for my big pressure canner and big water bath canner. Wind can be a problem with the propane burner outside. Sometimes we have to arrange a wind block, and of course can only can outdoors like that in spring/summer/fall and when it's not raining.

 

[tortoise]

Now that we got a stove with a glass stovetop do I need to do anything different for canning? I read that water bath canners aren't flat bottomed (I have to go and dig mine out) and can cause a pocket of air and the stove top can crack. I could can with a propane or electrical burner outside but then I worry about air temperature. UGH. I didn't even think about canning when DH picked out the stove.

TBH it would probably cost less to install an used stovetop in your garage or basement to make a canning kitchen then buy gadgets like I did. I just really love the ease of plug-in canners.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

TBH it would probably cost less to install an used stovetop in your garage or basement to make a canning kitchen then buy gadgets like I did. I just really love the ease of plug-in canners.

I am thinking the ease might be a super plus as well.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I pressure can on my glass top stove. I dare the thing to break, lol. In fact, I'd be ok if it did. I'm not real fond of that stove. But I could do the outside propane burner too.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

So I found this today, if you watch the first 2 min and 40 sec seems like the electric canner is recommended but not approved by the USDA. So then I went back to the website to order it and yep, sure enough it just meets the requirements but it isn't approved or certified so says the 'stamp of approval'

So then what does that mean exactly? Anyone? If the USDA won't approve it then is it still as safe as a stove top pressure canner?

 

[Hinotori]

Many glass top stoves can't handle the weight of a full pressure canner.

Mom says hers has erratic heat and all she uses hers for is cooking.