*Updated w/Questions* I got a pressure canner today!!

[Cassandra]

I'm so excited! I have it at work with me. The UPS driver just delivered it today. I have been trying to think what I can preserve in it today because I can't WAIT to get home and try it!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone have a recipe for preserved leaves and twigs? LOL

Cassandra

 

[mirime]

:dance

whooo hoooo!

 

[adeledamate]

Let us know how it works out. I've been thinking of getting one and trying to can some salsa.

 

[Nubsmum]

Lucky ducky. I have been wanting to get one. Let us know how you like it and the brand etc.

Now you can go canning nuts!!!! In a good way of course.

 

[Cassandra]

This is what kind I got. A Presto 23 quart pressure canner & cooker:

http://www.canningpantry.com/presto-pressure-canners.html

It's so SHINY

It was really funny, too cause it was really well packaged, I must say. And i got out the first piece of paper that says DO NOT OPERATE WITHOUT READING THE INSTRUCTIONS. So I started looking for the instructions and they were sealed inside the canner!



So....... I must be really dumb because it took me several minutes to figure out how to get the lid off (with no instructions, mind you) and get the instructions out. :/

I will let you all know how it works.

Cassandra

 

[mirime]

Looking forward to upcoming posts from you!!

 

[Cassandra]

I canned six pints of diced tomatoes last night (using the instructions for halved tomatoes because there were not different instructions for diced.)

I have a couple of questions about how it turned out.

1.) It REALLY smelled like tomatoes in the house after we turned it off and let it vent. and
2.) There was a little tomato juice inside the canner and a little less -- like an inch less -- of tomatoes inside the jars.

Normal?

Otherwise, everything went as I expected and the jars all sealed.

Cassandra

 

[nccountrygirl]

Yes that is normal. As the pressure canner is doing its thing the tomatoes are cooking down inside the jars. The tomatoe smell is normal as steam escapes the jars.

 

[sparks]

I love my Presto canner! Good for you. I`ve had it for years and still looks like new. Happy Canning!:happy_flower

 

[Tutter]

Oh, that's so cool! I love shiny new things.

I can't wait to hear how the tomatoes turned out! Congratulations!!!! :happy_flower