I love mine. It's really a worthwhile investment.Originally Posted by Irving
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I love mine. It's really a worthwhile investment.
"There is nothing in the world so permanent as a temporary emergency." - Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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I love ours too. It's quite large, especially for the beginner, or those with limited working space over their range.
You will have yours for a lifetime... That is unless you use a burner that is rated way too large for your canner.
We have had a water bath canner about burn through the enamel on our electric stove, our Prestos (2) have been excellent! We use them for pressure canning and pint water bath.
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I used my presto on a turkey fryer burner (later realizing the instructions said NOT to do this) and lets just say I found out what catastrophic failure means.
Yeah if you are getting into the canning thing, I wouldn't even bother wasting money on JUST a water bath canner. Although the big enameled pot comes in handy if you are making a big batch of anything.
There aren't a lot of options for pressure canners. Presto is pretty much the most available. They are all aluminum anyway, so it doesn't matter much. I found a big steel one once, but they were selling for over $1000, so I canned that idea. (see what I did there?)
I run my presto on a propane camp stove (Camp Chef Outdoorsman) with care. My wife has been banned from running the pressure canner as she destroyed one and bulged the bottom on a second. If you are careful, you can use an aluminum canner as is on a turkey fryer or camp stove, but you need to run more water and operate at a low temp. Lately, I run a scrap circle of 1/4" plate steel on my stove under the canner. It takes longer to get up to temperature, but this significantly reduces the risk of ruining your canner.
Why do I use the camp stove you ask? Because I can put that deafening roar of the operating canner outside instead of listening to it.
The camp stove works great with regular water bath canning. I can run two at the same time. And since we are typically canning late summer and early fall, it puts all that heat and steam outside instead of fighting the AC inside. And that leaves the stove top open for food prep.
Yeah, the wife and I can like pros.
I'm out of Quart canning jars, dammit, and I have a house full of pineapple.
When do canning jars go on sale? Who usually has the best price?
Yard sale season isn't for a while yet, and I usually juuuust miss the good Craigslist ads...
"There is nothing in the world so permanent as a temporary emergency." - Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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I go to thrift stores if I am desperate.
Usually in the spring I'll see sales. Walmart still has em, and I have an ACE neaby that has reasonable prices. The membership places (SAMS/COSTCO) usually carry them during harvest times.
Local king soopers carry them.. Few bucks more than SAMs club
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Littleton TruValue always has some at fairly reasonable prices. I stock up at Costco anytime I see them there...very good prices. Haven't seen any in a few months there though.
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