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[Ragdolly]

Went a little crazy this weekend...

@ Ragdolly........ I think you did do you actually live in your jar house

You better believe it

Back to canning meat - actually went so far as to can hot dogs ( I have an 11 year old boy... Don't judge!)

I don't remember if I added some salt to the canning mixture but I didn't think I did. Anywhooo... We opened a can last week and they were waaaay salty. Might try again and actually write down what I'm doing.

[ForgeCorvus]

Today I saw an advert on tv for Kilner jars..... First time for everything

[kizzie]

Bought 24 jars. (12 large 12 small) cost me £48 .. I know that is cheap for here but still way to expensive for me. I'm just going to get the jars for meat. and everything else will be in jam jars or dehydrated.


I heard we can pressure can with wreak jars, we have to use 4 clips for that rather than two or three.

[jasper1]

Evening all......have been away from prepping for a while (won't bore you with details), but I'm back into the swing of things now and very excited to see this thread. Pressure canning is something I covet, but was too cost prohibitive for me last year. I'm excited to read the posts and will be a grateful customer. I experimented with canning butter using an oven method, but my results were hit and miss, and I know pressure canning it is HUGELY successful.
When I was toying with pressure canning meats I contacted Kilner to ask their advice on the suitability of their jars for high pressure canning. Their response was a categoric NO.......something to do with the strength of the glass under pressure. They recommended Kilner jars for weather bath canning only. This is where I gave up on the idea of shelves full of canned meat. Things might have changed, I'm just passing on what I was told for information and to see if anyone has/can get an updated clarification on this.......it would be great if opinion has changed as I have a garage shelf full of Kilners I would love to use.....

Many thanx for sharing all this info, and for your efforts

Jasper

[kizzie]

Evening all......have been away from prepping for a while (won't bore you with details), but I'm back into the swing of things now and very excited to see this thread. Pressure canning is something I covet, but was too cost prohibitive for me last year. I'm excited to read the posts and will be a grateful customer. I experimented with canning butter using an oven method, but my results were hit and miss, and I know pressure canning it is HUGELY successful.
When I was toying with pressure canning meats I contacted Kilner to ask their advice on the suitability of their jars for high pressure canning. Their response was a categoric NO.......something to do with the strength of the glass under pressure. They recommended Kilner jars for weather bath canning only. This is where I gave up on the idea of shelves full of canned meat. Things might have changed, I'm just passing on what I was told for information and to see if anyone has/can get an updated clarification on this.......it would be great if opinion has changed as I have a garage shelf full of Kilners I would love to use.....

Many thanx for sharing all this info, and for your efforts

Jasper

Are you talking about the jars with the two piece lids? Only Ive not heard you cannot use them to pressure can :/

Here is a review from Amazon

This review is from: Ravenhead 1 Litre Kilner Preserve Jar, Sleeve of 3 (Kitchen & Home)
These are my first screw-band jars (I've previously used the clip-top type).
They are excellent for bottling/canning all kinds of foods, so far I've preserved shepherds pie fillings, soups and stews but the possibilities are endless. Meat & vegetables *must* be pressure canned to prevent botulism and these have proved ideal; because they have no clips and aren't as chunky I can fit 5 of these into my 11L pressure cooker at once, whereas only 4 of the 1L clip-top jars will fit. The reassuring "pop" as the jars seal while cooling is novel, I still haven't tired of that (sad, maybe!)
All in all, great jars for many purposes and a fabulous price (I paid £20 for 3 sleeves/9 jars, free delivery, but they've gone up a bit now). The screw-bands & lids are easy to find online, and although the lid discs can only be used once the screw-bands can be used up to 10 times each.
Each jar comes with a little sticky label inside for you to jot down the contents.
I definitely will be buying more!

Here is another place saying you can use them

http://www.allotment-garden.org/food/bo ... ipment.php

[jasper1]

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Are you talking about the jars with the two piece lids? Only Ive not heard you cannot use them to pressure can :/

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Yes.....they are the ones. Thanx for the links x

[m0tty]

Hi Jasper, et al

We are still on track, we have tweaked 1 or 2 potential investors, and we are in the process of collecting all the projected income/expenditure required for the business plan. Unfortunately we have had to give up on sourcing British suppliers of the canning jars. Kilner wants to stay in the arts & crafts realm, and won't entertain supplying an e-commerce only enterprise. Now if we had a chain of stores out on the high street then that would be completely different!!!! Go figure that one
As for Kitchencraft, they won't entertain supplying any quotes unless you've started trading already and have business premises.!!!

So Alibaba it was then, found umpteen companies that manufacture the type, and lo and behold, I discovered the company that actually manufacture the Mason Ball jars for the American market. Only drawback now is that they have a minimum order quantity of 5000 jars, they can be of mixed capacities, but, gotta get em, ship em, pay excise, then find a place to store 5000 blinkin jars. We're are at the stage right now with their sale dept. to see if we can get a reduced order to get us started, with a further staggered order later on.

The upshot to this is, we should be able to offer the jars at a REALISTIC price to you guys if we get the funding and an agreement of a reduced initial order for the jars.

All the best folks

Daz

[Jack the Lad]

if this comes to a stale mate and you cant go any further,can you pass the details on to me, I import from china often and could easily manage 5000 jars.

[ukpreppergrrl]

Just a heads up...my local Sainsbury's (and therefore I assume yours!) is currently selling 0.5L two-piece lid Kilner jars for £1.50. They also have the clip-top jars on special offer too but I spectacularly failed to remember the price of those! But I think it's a similar discount.

[Carefulnow]

Me and my mum do canning every autumn. The trouble is we don't have enough cans. They all get used up. We need a bigger pantry now. I have enough pickle to last me 5 years lol.