The canning process is used to keep food which is Suppose to last for longer periods of time. There is a whole science that investigates this process and there are constantly a number of new discoveries, recipes, and latest equipment that is used for canning along with the newly revealed factors that influence the canning process.

The canning process is used to keep food which is Suppose to last for longer periods of time. There is a whole science that investigates this process and there are constantly a number of new discoveries, recipes, and latest equipment that is used for canning along with the newly revealed factors that influence the canning process.

One of the most crucial issues when it comes to canning is safety, which assumes we are taking caution of our own wellbeing with a few precautions. When we say this, we mean that you shouldn’t try your own special recipes or try using some latest, unproven equipment. And when we come to the canning equipment, pressure cooker manufacturers aver with the intention of their products can be used pro canning too. But here are bounty of experts who say otherwise.

They claim pressure cookers are not good for canning and are recommending special equipment that is made strictly for canning. While it is doable to operate cookers for small batches of water bath canning, it is not recommended to use cookers for canning. The major problem is that the pressure cookers need longer period of time to heat up and to cool down. This issue is one and the only thing that makes cookers incompatible for canning. With each recipe, there is a certain timetable that needs to be followed in order to meet a successful canning. And since pressure cookers have smaller loads then canners, they need a reduced amount of calculate pro heating and pro cooling.

This is clearly the problem since it is not possible to accurately calculate the time. You probably know that you can find many pressure canner cookers in supplies as well as online, but this is the problem you will have to deal with if you are concerned about safety. These products are not all the same and can make troubles for you in your canning recipes. You can also destroy the entire food supply if you make a mistake with canning process. Not to mention your wellbeing that also may come in danger. What you need to take care of first is the size of a canner and its thickness. Canners are much wider in diameter and they use more water then pressure cookers. While cookers have 10″ in diameter, canners have at smallest amount 19″ and more.

It is clear that there is much difference between these two and this is exactly what affects the canning process and recipe you are using. There are the exact timetables that need to be followed but it is unmanageable to track them accurately with a pressure cooker. There are furthermore margins of safety that show us how much heat is necessary for the reduction in bacteria for acid foods. If this is not monitored and complete accurately, your food will not be appropriate for consumption. These are the reasons that pressure cookers shouldn’t be used as canners. Different sizes and thickness just don’t suit the recipe and canning process. It’s recommended that you use Presto pressure canner or All American canner and consume them as your equipment. You really shouldn’t save money on something that can endanger your wellbeing, ruin your food supply while not bringing any results.

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  • thestickman on Dec 22, 2009

    not familiar with the issues of canning but my mother used to do it. I know she was generous with heat-time and patient with the cool-time. And mom was *super critical, super careful* canning corn… which is probably worst for botulism so she ALWAYS had her recipe book out, read EVERY word, EVERY time (even though by her own admission she knew the recipe by heart, she committed to READ the recipe each and every time)

    Grandma used to cold-can pickles… fill a jar with raw whole mini-cucumbers, jamb-in several peeled garlic cloves/toes and cover completely with tap water, seal it and put it away! Yeah, -amazing! No heat, no vinegar, no salt, nothing but cucumbers, garlic and tap water! Amazing that nobody ever got sick but I grew up having garlic pickles she made this very way. they were crisp, delicious, nobody ever got sick.

  • Leonardo da Vinci E. on Dec 29, 2009

    This topic was the introduction to a new concept for my ever curious mind to expand its awareness.

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