Canning can be a very long and tiresome process. Especially if you’re using an open water method of placing jars in a pot filled with boiling water and timing them. This can lead to water all over your kitchen, burnt fingers and a restriction on your ability to can low acid foods for a fear of botulism. Pressure canners are a very simple solution to all of those problems. It is still a pot that you put on your stove top, but it is sealed with a pressure gauge and helps reach higher temperatures to sterilize your jars more thoroughly. Here are some good reasons to invest:
It’s More Sterile:
Due to the fact that the pot is sealed and has a pressure gauge to help monitor what’s going on inside, you reach higher temperatures that you would with an open water method. With this canner, you don’t have to fill it with water. Instead, you rely on the vapor produced. With higher temperatures, the bacteria such as clostridium botulinum, or botulism, are avoided.
Get more creative:
Now that you reach higher temperatures with a thorough process, you can start canning meat, sea food and low acid vegetables. This means that what you can isn’t limited to a year supply of tomatoes or pickles! You can get more creative.
Easy to Use:
The pot comes with an internal rack, so you are able to can more at once, where as with an open water pot, you can’t stack your jars vertically.
Simple and easy:
They also come with easily removable racks. This helps to avoid burning yourself when taking jars out of a pot filled with hot water, and you can also stack jars so that you can can more at once.
Thorough heat distribution:
Since there are racks inside the pot, this ensures that the jars don’t sit against the wall of the pot and the vapor reaches all sides of the jar. This means that the heat is distributed evenly for all the jars and the process is very thorough.
Long term investment:
For an easy, one time investment of around $60, you’ll be able to can more and there is no worry about whether your canning will spoil. These canners are very simple designs and are very durable. This means that for one small investment, you can produce tons of yummy food!
Canning with an open water method can be irritating and messy. With water boiling over the sides of your pot, and the handling of hot jars that might contain unwanted bacteria, it can be quite a chore to can. With a pressure canner, your hot water is contained, you handle your jars with a rack that stacks them and holds them in place, and you know that the water temperature is above 212F. Now it’s easy to can anything without worrying and enjoy much more than tomatoes safely, and without burning your hands!
Lots of shoppers pick an All American pressure canner because it is leading brand, but other brands like Mirro and Fagor make quality products, too. The best pressure canners are the ones that satisfy your individual needs, so make sure you’re buying what you really need and not just what’s popular.
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