Pressure Canning

MedicHerbalist · Post by **MedicHerbalist** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:56 am

Does anyone have any experience with pressure canning? I have bought a 15 litre pressure cooker and am canning meat. (Cheap cuts like brawn, liver and heart. I am also canning concentrated pea&ham soup). I would like a proper pressure canner with pressure guage but they only seem to be on sale in the USA - even on eBay. The cost of postage from there would make your teeth bleed. Does anyone know of a UK supplier who is not exploiting the difference (like £ for $ and a chunk of the postage for the price)?

tigs · Post by **tigs** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:39 am

try here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Presto-01781-Pr ... 000BYCFU/2

mole hill · Post by **mole hill** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 2:48 pm

I'd love to be able to can things, but with the cost of the jars i couldn't justify doing it when you can buy the same thing in the supermarket for a fraction of the price

preppingsu · Post by **preppingsu** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:08 pm

mole hill wrote:I'd love to be able to can things, but with the cost of the jars i couldn't justify doing it when you can buy the same thing in the supermarket for a fraction of the price

However, sometimes it's not about the cost but about practising and having the skill, should those things in the supermarket not be available. In a shtf scenario your food stocks will not last forever so you will need to know how to produce/grow and preserve your own food.

mole hill · Post by **mole hill** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:03 pm

preppingsu wrote:
mole hill wrote:I'd love to be able to can things, but with the cost of the jars i couldn't justify doing it when you can buy the same thing in the supermarket for a fraction of the price
However, sometimes it's not about the cost but about practising and having the skill, should those things in the supermarket not be available. In a shtf scenario your food stocks will not last forever so you will need to know how to produce/grow and preserve your own food.

I know what your saying, but how easy is it going to be to grow your own produce in a shtf scenario when there's millions of people wondering around the country looking for food.

icrcc · Post by **icrcc** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:58 pm

I have done a lot of canning and I am just getting into pressure canning. I was surprised how easy it is. One of the best descriptions on how to pressure can along with some good pointers can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fFAlldDKM

The-Great-Nothing · Post by **The-Great-Nothing** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:26 pm

mole hill wrote:
preppingsu wrote:
mole hill wrote:I'd love to be able to can things, but with the cost of the jars i couldn't justify doing it when you can buy the same thing in the supermarket for a fraction of the price
However, sometimes it's not about the cost but about practising and having the skill, should those things in the supermarket not be available. In a shtf scenario your food stocks will not last forever so you will need to know how to produce/grow and preserve your own food.
I know what your saying, but how easy is it going to be to grow your own produce in a shtf scenario when there's millions of people wondering around the country looking for food.

Hi

Not sure you will have any other sustainable options once the dust has settled.....

Cheers

Matt

MedicHerbalist · Post by **MedicHerbalist** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:27 am

The name of the game is preserving from times of the year when there is shed-loads of food (Summer/Autumn) to when there is not (Winter/Spring). In the old days people used to have to slaughter their animals to provide over-winter food until the next harvest came in. I know how to forage for food and know what wild plants I can (and cannot) eat. Preservation from the fat times to eat in the lean times seems good to me. If the SHTF we will all be living off-grid. The purpose of our food stocks must be to give us time to learn to live off-grid otherwise our stocks will mean starvation is just in slow-motion. We need skills as well as food. I am learning every means of food preservation (Pressure canning, hot-water canning, smoking, salting, pickling, fermenting - as in sourkraut -, drying, vacuum packing, jamming). When opportunity arises i will take and preserve as much food as I can get.

icrcc · Post by **icrcc** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 4:16 pm

An excellent balanced approach MH.

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