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
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How to preserve a sugar, oil free homemade chocolate spread? [duplicate]
I'm starting to make a business of selling homemade sugar and oil free chocolate spread, which will be sweetened with dates.
My ingredients are:
Sugar free cocoa powder
Hazelnuts
Dates
And water.
I do ...
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Do I need to add citric acid to can tomato sauce if I used tomatoes from a can with citric acid?
Do I need to add citric acid to can tomato sauce if I used tomatoes from a can with citric acid? I want to prevent botulism and such and need higher acidity to can my tomato sauce but I figured my ...
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how to unseam - or otherwise safely open - steel olive oil cans
Is there a simple household technique to undo the seam of olive oil cans?
Olive oil is sold in 3L metal cans. They might have a shoebox profile - are brand names OK? Filipo Berio brand. There are ...
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I water bath’d my freezer cherry jam
I water bath my freezer jam. I didn’t realize I was using freezer pectin. Can I make this jam shelf safe at this point?
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Is it safe to can tomato sauce after refrigerating it?
For my first adventure in canning, I had planned to make an arrabiata sauce and give it a hot-water bath.
I finished making the sauce around 11 p.m. before I realized I didn't have citric acid -- or ...
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Salad canning in bags [duplicate]
Where we live you can buy ready made salads like beetroot salad in vacuum sealed bags, so was wondering if you can use heavy duty vacuum bags to "can" things like jam, sauces and salads. You ...
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How to preserve bone broth?
I will soon receive a few kg of fresh boar bones. From these, I want to make bone broth and preserve them in Weck jars, as I don't have a freezer.
Unfortunately I do not have a pressure cooker of any ...
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How to can chicken wings so that the bones are mostly soft
I am trying to figure out if it's worth my time to try to replicate a commercial dog food product, Merrick's Wingaling wet dog food.
The important part is the chicken wings, which I assume are cooked ...
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Confused about canning process time for stock versus stock with meat in it
I have an all American pressure canner that I use for canning venison, and I wanted to can some stock as well. I followed the recipe and instructions in the manual, including the part that said “...
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Are my home canned dill pickles safe to eat?
I followed the instructions from my canning book in making the pickles approximately a year ago. I opened them today and could pull the lid off with my fingers. They had seal marks in the rubber ...
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How do I remove the soapy taste in homemade chili using home canned tomatoe juice?
Used home canned juice and store bought tomatoes to make chili. Added 2 tbls of sugar to the chili to cut down the metal taste. Now my chili has a soapy after taste. Can thus be saved or should I dump ...
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Pressure canner processing time cut short
Pressure canning dried pinto beans, 7 quarts for 90 minutes. My range top malfunctioned and the 90-minute timer still had 9 minutes to go. After cool down period, all jars sealed. Will it be safe or ...
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Why did the juice start coming out of the jar as soon as I lifted them out of the water?
I was water bath canning tomato juice. I filled them within 1/2" from top and put the lids on. The juice wasn't scalding hot but hot enough. When I was lifting the wire rack out all of a sudden ...
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Can I seal ball jars after they have been filled & refrigerated? [duplicate]
I made plum jam 1 week ago, put it all in ball jars, & placed them in the refrigerator. Can I now seal those jars in a water bath for future use?
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How long will blanched tomatoes last in a cool area? [duplicate]
I ran out of time, while I was blanching tomatoes to can. Right now I have them in pots in a cool room. I blanched them yesterday, and am planning on processing them today. Are they safe to can or ...
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forgot to put sealed jars in canning bath [duplicate]
I made blueberry jam last night. I heard some of the jars pop then in the morning I realized that I never put them in the hot bath. What should I do now?
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Can you can items using a deep frier instead of a pressure canner?
In this question about canning safety, the answer states that the only safe way to can low-acid foods is by using a pressure canner, since only they will be able to reach the temperatures required to ...
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Is this process of canning jars safe?
Recently my MIL came over to show my husband and I how to do some canning. We made diced tomatoes, salsa and pasta sauce. We cooked the diced tomatoes, placed in jars and put in water bath. We did the ...
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Can you save canning jars after you've realized they've been improperly sealed for a month?
My family decided to can pasta sauce, salsa and whole tomatoes about a month ago. A few days ago I was talking with a friend about how we canned our sauces, and they told me it wasn't safe and that ...
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Why remove blossom ends for canned tomatoes / marinara sauce?
I was looking at recipes for canning marinara sauce and the Ball jar's recipe notes to remove the blossom end from the tomatoes.
In trying to search for the rationale I couldn't find anything. The ...
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Can I reprocess jars that have sealed?
We lost track of the venting time but since it was a strong heavy steam, husband put the weight on. Regulating the jiggles was hard to do and finally we just turned the heat off. Thinking to start ...
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Overcooked grapes for jelly?
I cooked my grapes overnight in a crock pot. It only has one temperature setting.
The grapes became brown and appeared mushy, and the juice they released was also brown. The taste became almost cherry-...
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Canning Commercial salad dressings
My father's favorite salad dressing is only available through a large restaurant supply house. It can only be purchased in gallon containers, I fill up a couple of squeeze bottles for him and put them ...
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Does cooking food inside a pressure cooker and then leaving it locked preserve it similar to canning?
I have made some food in my pressure cooker and left it in room temperature for over a week. When I opened it, there was no mold. I threw it out because it might have still been bad, but this got me ...
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Cloudy sediment in home canned pickles
I've home-canned some pickled vegetables recently and there is a cloudy sediment in the brine. I'd like to know what causes it and how to prevent it.
It is not spoilage. It only seems to affect the ...
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Waterbath canning chow chow
I waterbath canned some chow chow on Wednesday. It was cabbage, cauliflower, red pepper, green peppers, and (was suppose to add green tomatoes and forgot) can I open them, add tomatoes and can again?...
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Packaging/Bottling and Uncooked Hot Sauce
Forgive me for the post being long! I make a buffalo sauce/marinade that all my friends and family rave about. I’d love to be able to give some to them to keep in the pantry, especially the ones that ...
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Is it safe to eat canned tomatoes when the lid popped inwards on opening?
I opened a store bought can ("tin") of diced tomatoes with a "pull top" lid, and unusually as I did I heard a noticeable popping noise. The lid appears to have bent inward ...
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Should canned peas' water be discarded?
The argument is that when cooking peas from a can the liquid should be thrown away for the same reasons* beans' first couple of waters are discarded. Is that true?
The can says(translated):
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Can I cook with the olive oil from canned sardines?
The olive oil from canned sardine is delicious to eat with the sardines themselves on toast.
However the olive oil doesn't seem to pair with any other food. In the past I tried to use the oil with ...
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Is this mold in hot sauce?
I have several 1 year old bottles of fermented Serrano hot sauce (I do not remember if this batch had an onion in it or not).
The sauce was canned via hot fill hold processing in woozy bottles at a ...
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Hot Sauce bottling
We make a famous hot sauce, but we are having a problem properly sealing the bottles for shipping. We tried to shipped the sauce to friends and family, but after a 3 to 4 day trip, the sauce gets to ...
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Can I reprocess applesauce that was processed correctly the first time?
This was my first year canning applesauce. My first batch was a little too thin for our liking, but I tweaked what I did a little, and the next two batches came out great. I have some apples left, but ...
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I depressurized my canner and reprocessed jars with lids sealed. Will the food be ok?
The canner began coming to pressure, steam started shooting under the pressure gauge.
The jars began to seal when I opened the canner to fix the gasket. I reprocessed them all without putting new lids ...
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how do I salvage canned mushrooms, canned with fruit fresh
I canned mushrooms with fruit fresh. They have a very acidic taste - tart not sweet. Can I fix them or make a soup from them to salvage the batch?
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Home canning coffee?
I've decided i'd prefer to make my own coffee and can it to have on hand when i'm in a pinch then get a bottle of cold brew at the grocery to store in the car.
I wonder if anyone else has experience ...
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What is the process of storing food in toothpaste'ish tubes?
You know what I'm talking about, these food tubes that are popular for tomato paste, or pesto.
Searching for 'food in tube' or 'how to make your own tomato paste in tube' yields mixed results, so I'm ...
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What is the code for the rings stamped on the top of canned food?
Canned food has rings stamped on the lids. What (or who) has the code?
Here is a photo with crab and tuna tops. Maybe the better word would be "indentations"?
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Popped lid in pressure canning
One of the lids on a quart jar of green beans "popped" after sitting on the kitchen counter for two days. It was one of a batch of a dozen jars canned in that session. The others are fine ...
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Sparkling strawberries in glass
I made several glasses of whole strawberries in syrup. Normally I do this:
sterilize the glass and the screw cap with boiling water
carefully wash and sort strawberries
make a syrup 300g of sugar to ...
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Do you need to put canned chili sauce in the refrigerator after it is opened? [duplicate]
New (sealed) chili sauce doesn't need to be put in the refrigerator. After unsealing, do you need to put it in the refrigerator after the lid is tightened?
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When are cornichons ready to be pickled?
For the first time, I'm growing my own cornichon for pickling, but don't know the best time to pick them. Most recipes suggest they are ready when the fruit is about the size of your little finger - ...
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Is this kind of outlook in the wall inside an opened can looking normal?
I have just opened an expired can of beans trying to clean the food stock due to epidemic situation. It expired approximately 6 months. The food looks alright, the outlook of the can doesn't have any ...
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How to get clear bone broth - without canning [duplicate]
I like how canning bone broth causes the broth to go clear.
My recipe for bone broth is to cover bones with water and simmer on low for 4-5 hours. I then strain it several times with the last ...
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Non-fat way of preventing legumes from frothing during canning
I have been adding fat to each jar of canned legumes to prevent frothing during processing (pressure canning). The fat looks unappetizing in the final product, especially if the beans are used cold ...
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Can you water bath a cooked then cooled jam recipe?
I tried a peach jam recipe that is cooked then cooled to thicken without pectin (6+ hour cool time). The recipe says you can freeze it or can it. What would be the safest method to can it? I have ...
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Is there an organic preservative that I can add to homemade pesto to extend its refrigerated shelf-life?
I have a very large basil crop this year for which I am extremely excited.
In addition to drying and putting that up for myself over the winter, I want to put up pesto for me. I especially want to ...
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What is this substance in my canned ground beef?
Do you know from pic what the yellow jelly like substance is on what seems to be the side surfaces of my corned beef(I can’t see it on the top or inner part)?
The ingredients say: Cooked Beef, Beef, ...
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How can I separate the lid from a can that has a pull-tab/ring without flinging food everywhere?
When I try to separate the lid from a can that has a pull-tab, the moment the lid separates from the can, the lid flings food everywhere. It's not always a lot, but it goes far because the lid has so ...
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How to preserve a spread in a jar
I am starting a business making a vegan chocolate spread. It is beginning as a small, family run operation, in a hired industrial kitchen.
We are stuck on how to 'treat' the spread when getting to the ...
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