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Questions tagged [canning]

Questions about food being preserved into glass jars, metal cans, or other air-tight containers using a variety of heat treatment steps to ensure a reasonable level of pasteurisation and/or sterilisation

Topics accepted within this tag:

  • Problems with preserving recipes, especially if the recipe can be referenced

  • Techniques for using preserving equipment

  • Selection of preserving equipment

  • Selection of preserving containers for food types - glass, metal, other

Topics not accepted within this tag:

  • Discussion on the health benefits of preserving

  • Discussion on the shelf life of preserved foods

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Can fermented hot peppers be used to make jam / jelly?

I've had a bountiful hot pepper harvest this year and am trying to find a variety of ways to preserve them. Much of my harvest has been lacto-fermented by puree'ing and brining the peppers with 2% by weight salt, and a little extra brine to be sure…
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can you make marmalade using sous vide?

Since making marmalade involves cooking fruit and pectin and juices at a particular temperature for a specified amount of time, can you use sous vide to mimic this process and make and can marmalade in this way?
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Is pressure canning, weeks after regular canning safe?

Recently I have learned, that I need to use a pressure canner when canning paprika. So far I have only used my oven. I have ordered a pressure canner, but it may arrive end of october. At this time, the season for paprika may already be over. So my…
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Red vs green jalapenos for canning

I'm planning to can some salsa tomorrow and have a recipe picked out (Roasted Tomato-Lime Salsa, from ATK). The one catch is that it calls for red jalapenos, but I could only find green. I am wondering if it will be a problem to substitute; I am…
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Pressure canning tomatoes without added acid

I'd like to pressure can tomatoes without adding acid as recommended by the USDA (and outlined here). The reason being is, imo, the additional acid ruins the flavor. My understanding of the official recommendation is that it specifically relates to…
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Sodium in canned beans and legumes

I was looking at some cans of black beans and chickpeas I had. They both had higher sodium than I would have expected. Much higher than non-canned varieties. I am wondering where does that sodium lie? Is the sodium in the liquid that the beans are…
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Canning Chili Sauce

I'm going to have a very large crop of Thai chilis this year. I'd like to make a large batch of sweet chili sauce. Can this be canned like you would jelly or jam so that it's shelf stable?
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Temperature range for canned goods

Temperature range for canned goods? The question is about home canning in glass but I suspect the same applies to commercial metal cans. I have read under 70 F and bad things happen fast at 100 F. Is there a lower bound? If they freeze will they…
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Canned food, botulism and ph

Recently i started to do some home-made canning. The procedure I use is Use a pressure cooker to build the jars (cristal ones) for about 10 minutes at 120C. Cook my vegetables (normally tomatoes, garlic, capsicum, eggplant, zuchini) the whole mix…
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What preservative can I use to can my hot sauce

I've made hot sauce for my family using the following ingredients: peppers onions garlic tomatoes salt And I would like to try canning it. What can I use instead of vinegar to preserve it. I really don’t like vinegar in my hot sauce at all.
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Can meat flavored tomato sauce be used without heating?

I saw similar questions but I can't comment as I'm new. Is there any tomato sauce with meat chunks? Can those be used without cooking?
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Can I make shelf stable cocktail mixers by pressure canning?

I'm trying to essentially make my own cocktail kit to send a friend (sans alcohol). Rather than asking them to buy a lot of the ingredients, such as fruit juices, I'm wondering if I can basically create the mixer for them, then pressure can it so…
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Elementary Tomato Canning

I don't have the stomach for a proper recipe for tomato canning. I simply "binge" bought an enormous box and am now trying to salvage what I can. Here is my recipe: Gently simmer 6 quarts/litres of tomatoes in a batch on the stove for 24 hours,…
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Delayed Pressure Canning by 12 hours? OK? or no?

We did a batch of canning the other day. We take our beans and blanch them then let them cool off. We take our mason jars and boil them as well as our lids. We take the jars out of the boiling water, add our beans, and then fill the jar with boiling…
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What is fresh preserving?

What kind of canning does fresh preserving refer to, or is it an all-encompassing sort of thing (e.g. water bath canning, pressure canning, freeze-canning, lacto-fermenting, etc.)? I see the term used when you go to buy canning jars on Amazon and…
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