Bought a canner

[Irving]

$80 seems like a pretty good deal. You'll have to tell us how it holds up.

[rbeau30]

+1 I'll take all I can get and save them.
Maybe we should have a canning recipe thread?

BTW what happens if you use a outdoor burner? Saw that warning and was wondering how it'd differ from a gas stove.

I am all for a canning recipe thread.

Basically it makes the aluminum which what the OP and me have for a pressure canner become malleable enough that the inside pressure makes it look like a round pot instead of a cylindrical pot like it comes.

It ends up screwing up the seal, the flat bottom(which becomes round), and all your stuff you are canning inside.

Now you have to buy a new $80 Canner :-( I wish I had pictures before I took it to the scrapyard (which gives you less per pound aluminum scrap than used cans) but I was too depressed at the time.

[Irving]

I have a gas stove, does this mean I can't use a pressure cooker on it?

[rbeau30]

I have a gas stove, does this mean I can't use a pressure cooker on it?

I threw away the directions in true man-style... but I believe the canner has a maximum BTU rating. I use my canner on my home gas stove just fine. I just ran into problems when I decided that my turkey fryer burner would boil faster.

I was trying to cut corners and trying to make the process faster, but in canning I learned that cutting corners = bad results.

[BigNick73]

The limit on the presto is 12,000 btu on gas stoves according to the manual. The videos on their web page shows it being used on a gas stove so I'm sure its fine.

You can always fork out the cash for a All American, but they run about $250+

[Irving]

My mom has a pressure cooker to give to me, but it is pretty small, only 10 quarts I think. I think it is the minimum to be able to can anything.

[rbeau30]

My mom has a pressure cooker to give to me, but it is pretty small, only 10 quarts I think. I think it is the minimum to be able to can anything.

You should be able to get quart jars in it if it is tall enough, if it is the 16 quart one you'll be able to get 7 quarts/10-ish pints in it. The larger 23 qt ones you can get an extra row of pint jars in it with an extra bottom rack.