Canning and bottling.

[preppingsu]

Discussions have been taking place on the other thread 'What Preps are you doing?' so I thought I would start another one here to carry on the discussion.

This is a good link to discuss canning or bottling of fruit and veg. It doesn't talk about meat.

http://www.allotment.org.uk/allotment_f ... /index.php

[preppingsu]

Here's another good link...
http://www.pickyourownfarms.org.uk/canningqa.htm

[preppingsu]

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/

National Centre for Home Preservation (American!) but it seems they know what they are talking about.

[Red Doe]

These are great Su, thanks.
I wrote to Prestige a while back because in the States they make canners, but not here, and asked if they were considering making them for the UK market anytime as there'd be a huge demand, but they said nope.

[preppingsu]

I did think about writing to Lakeland Ltd as they have a good history of finding equipment and remaking it etc. They may consider selling the correct equipment if enough people emailed them

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/help/contact-us

[Brambles]

Recently I found out that you can use a WMF Pressure Cooker to preserve low acid foods such as veg and meat. Here's the instruction manual page 9 has the relevant info.

http://www.wmf.com/upload/images/Conten ... 4_1662.pdf

I'm still not completely won over though. I'm giving serious thought to asking my American pal to send me one of these

http://www.amazon.com/Presto-1755-16-Qu ... 3NFJT69OXM

Even if I have import charges to pay, the price difference will hardly be worth worrying over and it will process loads more in one go.

[Brambles]

I meant to add, I use my prestige pressure cooker to process high acid foods that are generally preserved using the water bath method. It's MUCH quicker and more reliable. I wrote a tutorial, if it's of any use to anyone, it's too big to post though, maybe a mod could do something with it.

[preppingsu]

I wrote a tutorial, if it's of any use to anyone, it's too big to post though, maybe a mod could do something with it.

A tutorial sounds great! I don't know how to do the techie stuff but I'm sure scoobie will know what to do!

[Brambles]

I'll happily share. The document is 1500 words.

[Red Doe]

ooh, I'd love to read that tutorial too!