Canning

[kmlj9491]

I know we're all hunters here but how many people actually grow their own food or pick wild fruits and vegetables to can? And what is your favorite thing to can?

[dhillis]

Did my first garden this year so no help as far as canning. The garden didn't go so well. Need to put some manure in the garden and till it a little deeper for the next round.


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[txjustin]

Did lots of pickled pickles, bread and butter pickles, pickled okra, pickled japs, tons of salsa, and froze (blanch 1st) a lot of tomatoes and japs.

[gandergitter]

My wife and I can a lot, pickles, tomato suace, salsa, green beans, wax beans, sauerkraut, and a slew of jellys/ preserves. We enjoy it as it seems like a dying preservation method. Her grandma at 89, has been a wealth of knowledge as shes canned her whole life and being a farm family, it was a necessity.

[MA ELite]

I do a lot more pickling the canning. Pickled Okra and Green Tomato Relish are my fav. I haven't done to well with my pickles yet.

[beardedBrazos]

we can green beans, okra, squash, salsa, pepper sauce, relish, and i just put off my first batch of mustang grape wine. we also put up about 2 bushels of apples every fall and a bunch of peaches every summer but I don't grow those yet. we freeze all the black eyed peas along with a lot of squash and okra for frying. i enjoy it. me and the wife can do it together, and it tastes way better than the store stuff.

[super_dave]

I'm watching this one. We have more garden than appetite and need to store this stuff!

[kmlj9491]

It's defiantly a dying tradition. My great aunt used to can for my entire family. I just recently picked up on it about 5 years ago when I met my wife's family. I think it's a pretty neat process to learn and you know exactly what is going into your food.

[KillerChefs]

cant wait for figs

[coachkiss]

I know it's quite a tradition, but canning is going the way of the world (except for pickling), a quick blanch and vacuum seal takes away a lot of the heat, threat for disease, and cost (jars, lids, etc) of canning.

For the price of a pressure canner and the jars and lids, you can buy a vacuum sealer and rolls of bags. Freeze them, write on them, put them in freezer. Many people have a chest freezer but not an additional pantry for jars.

Just my 2 cents.

[KillerChefs]

what happens when the power goes out then? those jars will look real good then.

[beardedBrazos]

I know it's quite a tradition, but canning is going the way of the world (except for pickling), a quick blanch and vacuum seal takes away a lot of the heat, threat for disease, and cost (jars, lids, etc) of canning.

For the price of a pressure canner and the jars and lids, you can buy a vacuum sealer and rolls of bags. Freeze them, write on them, put them in freezer. Many people have a chest freezer but not an additional pantry for jars.

Just my 2 cents.

yep. and the first time a storm comes and knocks out power for 3 days yer scrambling around trying to save all yer food. or your freezer goes out and you don't realize it till it starts stinkin. im not a doomsday prepper, but there is a valid point there.....

[GR5]

Always been big in canning. Put up corn on the cob, cream peas, black eyes, pintos and purple hulls.. usually gallons of maters. lots of squash and cucumbers. The Ball blue book is your friend and will tell you how to do it all

[GR5]

I have 4 large freezers. 2 for fish, 1 for wild meat and 1 for the garden. The diesel powered generator is for the storms. ran the whole house for 17 days after Ike

[coachkiss]

What happens the first time you have massive screen-door diarrhea from botulism? We can what if all day...