Posted: 4/5/2010 10:26:08 AM EDT
| The dreaded task of canning would come a few times a year when I was a kid. The whole day was shot helping Mom n Dad canning while my freinds would be out front wining an imaginary World Series game 7. So my question is has it change much since the 70s? Find food you want to can stuff in jar put in pressure cooker and wait in a hot steamy house. I hope it has gotten easier in the last 35 years. What can you tell me? Thanks. |
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I'd guess the biggest change would be that back then you were doing it because Mom and Dad made you, and now you'd be doing it because you want to - or at least recognize the value. It makes a big difference.
Other than that, no, canning hasn't changed much... lots of people are still using the same equipment they were back then. The USDA came out with some new recommendations for processing time, etc. a few years ago, but any recent canning guide will have the new figures. It's a little more complicated than "Find food you want to can stuff in jar...", but the instructions aren't hard to follow. NOT following them leads to very unhappy gastronomic places, tho... 
With a decent propane burner and an easy-to-throw-together outdoor utility sink, you can do most of it outside and avoid the steamy house bit. |
Here's a good link, courtesy of .gov (may as well get some benefit from all those tax dollars  )
USDA Canning Guide |
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Quoted: Quoted: It's still work. Not as bad if you can outdoors on a propane burner. Thanks for that suggestion it will keep the wife a kid out of my way. Now what size cooker should I get? I see at walmart there is a 23 quart cooker is it over kill or just right? It's not overkill. Our biggest canners hold 9 quart jars at a time. It's not hard to utilize that capacity. I'm not sure if a 23 quart canner holds 7 jars or 9......either way, you'll use the space. |