Just a reminder ForgeCorvus and t'others, check the links below to my Google drive.ForgeCorvus wrote:According to the Canning threads on the other sites I go on, if you buy nothing else you should buy This book
Kizzie. At that sort of money shipping one over from the land of 'Merican's is probably cheaper
Rik. Good link, I've got a friend who swears by her pressure-cooker (I don't think shes Canned in it though) and at that price it might be worth getting one
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You will find the link to the book above in pdf format, there, with other publications as well.
@ Kizzie, 10 psi is the norm for canning meats at altitudes up to 1000ft, download the links to my first post in this thread, all info is in there inc. the Ball Blue Book of Canning. The kind of pressure cooker you need would ideally have a pressure gauge fitted, as not all food requires 10psi, some need less. Also, imho, doing it hap hazard without no gauge can be dangerous, any pressure cooker can get up to a high pressure ( way over for our needs ), so how would you visually know if you were over doing your produce? How would you know you was exceeding the rated pressure for your cooker? Some pressure cookers are rated less than others. Achieving an higher pressure means leaving full heat on, on the cooker ring, being it gas or electric. Some have a safety blow out valve to prevent the cooker over pressuring, older ones may not have this. As for the size of pressure cooker, well for example, you could have an 18l capacity, which is quite a good size, but the capacity could be in it's height, not it's width, so the capacity to batch process food could still be restricted, even though it is quite a large vessel if you get what I mean.
Because of my own problems in obtaining the necessary equipment, I've pondered on trying to get round the problem. As I, and others have said, getting supplies from America is prohibitive, not in the price, but in the postage. It would need to be a very large order to be worthwhile.
Over here, we have Kilner and Kitchen craft that manufacture jars for our purposes, so my query is this:- What is the supplier price for what amount i.e. price break on quantities and the seller mark up? If the price difference is vast, then we're being taken advantage of by the sellers. If it's not that great, then that must be simply down to demand.
My intention is to seek prices from the manufactures, and if viable, open an Estore of some kind to serve us all in a better way than we are being, and to keep the overheads to a bare minimum.
I understand those who may feel cynical about this, but I do truly have the best intentions at heart if we go ahead with this. Also it won't be just the home canning stuff, I will look into all the other aspects of what us preppers need and find a tad costly, i.e. mylar bags, hand sealers, vacuum sealers, oxygen absorbers etc.
Bottom line is, if I can do better, then I will sell it, if I can't then i'll point you all to where it can be had, does that sound fair enough?
Anyways, it's early days yet and would really appreciate your comments, thoughts and advice on the matter, I'm sure we could all do better than we are right now.
All the best, stay safe, stay prepared.
Daz.
I have some jars, now to get saving for some more. 