The rack with this canner does not work well with the smaller pints and half pints. They tend to slide through the gaps. Stainless steel water bath canners like this one are beautiful, long-lasting and best of all double as steam canners and large stock pots. One pot, three uses! With a steam canner, you use less water and less time. It has been proven to be safe when the directions are properly followed.
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Recipe Rating Recipe Rating. Oldest Newest Most Voted. Inline Feedbacks. Also sad. After spending a good chunk of time peeling tomatoes, onions, and garlic, and running all that and more through the food processor, I had a massive pot filled to the brim with two gallons of simmering salsa.
I filled my seven quart-sized jars and got them going in the big canning pot, but I had two smaller pints left. It just seemed silly to wait to do the leftover pint jars until those big pint jars finished processing in the big canner.
A lightbulb went off, and I remembered reading that large stock pots can work as canners with a few little modifications.
The kitchen towels or canning rings take the place of the wire canning rack that goes in the bottom of a regular water bath canner. You can usually fit 3 or 4 small canning jars in most large stock pots. By small, I mean pint-sized or smaller. Quart jars will likely be too big for most big stockpots. Though, of course, if you have a big family like we do , you might have some massive soup kettles hanging around your home!
After that, proceed just like you would for any other canning recipe. Fill the pot the rest of the way with water, at least one inch above the lids on the jars. Put a fitted lid on your pot, crank up the heat, and boil away! If you do, no real harm is done. I was so glad I remembered this trick the other night during my mass salsa production. It made the whole process so much more efficient and got me in bed earlier. Yummy salsa with fresh ingredients done in half the time I expected?
Who knew a big stockpot had so much to offer! I believe natural health is a blessing from God that you can start enjoying right now, one step at a time. As a trained herbalist and certified aromatherapist, I can give you trusted guidance and practical help, grounded in solid research and established tradition, so you can make progress in your journey toward thriving health.
Learn more here. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. I am going to make Peach Sauce similar to apple sauce. I do this with my own recipe. And therefore I do not have a canning recipe for this. Could you please suggest a canning time that I should go by as an estimate.
How will I know if its been long enough. Hi Jessica. Ball the canning jar company makes a great one and is what I often refer to. You can find it here on Amazon or here on Bookshop supports independent book stores. Jessica… hope your canning went well. Kristen, Thank you for your thorough explanation.
Now I do not have to go and buy another pot just to do some canning. So glad it was helpful, Nancy! I love finding easy solutions that save me a trip to the store, too. This is exactly what I am planning to do now that I have an induction cooktop.
I have a couple very large stock pots that can hold canning jars. Thank you for your great article! With all of your experience, you could probably teach me quite a few canning tricks! Hello I am interested in healthy and natural ideas health. I am retired nurse now and studying all sorts of natural health and herbal medicine. Hi Carolyn! Have you been able to sign up for my emails yet? Let me know if you need help with that! But I never thought of using canning rings.
Instant Pot. I can only do this with 4 oz. Somewhere I read that it is possible to use a large stock pot for canning. Your great article confirms this. However, how do I convert certain amounts of pressure to a flame from an electric stove.
Have looked and looked but have not seen this anywhere. If you use the wide mouth, your regular jars might slip through. If you have a round rack both my pressure cookers can with them , you can pop one into the bottom of your stock pot and consider your canning pot ready to go. If you don't have a round rack that fits your stock pot, you can build one with aluminum foil.
When pressure canning , it is perfectly ok for the jars to touch. When water bath canning , there should be room all around the jars so the water is able to circulate freely.
That's why the water bath canner comes with a rack to hold the jars apart. One of the misconceptions about canning is the belief that you must have a dedicated canning pot in order to can. This is not true. All you need is a pot that is tall enough to hold a rack, your jars, an inch of water above the jars and an additional inch or so of space where the water can boil. Once all the jars have lids and rings, lower them into your canning pot.
Make sure the jars are fully submerged and are covered with about an inch of water you need that much to ensure that they won't become exposed during boiling. You don't want the water to be rolling when you reach in with your jar lifter. The jars must not sit directly on the bottom of the canner or touch each other.
Water needs to flow freely around each jar. Add hot water if needed until the jars are covered by 2 inches of water. You can also process jars in any pot deep enough to have jars fully covered in boiling water. Most are designed to hold seven quart jars or eight to nine pints. Small pressure canners hold four quart jars; some large pressure canners hold 18 pint jars in two layers, but hold only seven quart jars.
Water bath canners Essentially, a water bath canner is a very, very large pot, with dimensions to hold at least 7 quart jars and allow them to be submerged by 1 to 2 inches of water. The canners usually include a rack with handles to make it easier and safer to put the jars in and take them out of the boiling water. If you have a pot that is deep enough to cover over the tops of the jars with water by inches and have room for boiling, you can use it.
You need a rack or a folded towel in the bottom. If you don't have a lid for it, use a baking sheet or pizza pan. If you 're planning on canning , you can reuse your purpose-made glass jars and screw bands, as long as they 're in good condition.
The metal snap lids, on the other hand, are made to be used once. Once the gummy, rubbery seal on the lid is heated and cooled, it can 't make the same quality of seal again.
The solution is easy, though: Next time I process quart jars I'll take out the raised rack and set a smaller one, probably borrowed from my pressure canner , in the bottom of the tamale steamer.
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