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Canning and Preserving- Basic Tools and Time savers
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items Canning, preserving, and eating well all winter long. These are my favorite tools and tips gathered from 35 years of family canning experiences.
Essential and reasonably priced “old faithful” for hot-water bath canning, the only method I do. My first one, just like this replacement last summer, lasted almost 35 years.
Granite Ware 21.5 Quart Water Bath Canner with Rack for Jam, Salsa and Pickles
A large funnel is extremely useful for packing your canning jars with as little mess as possible. This inexpensive one will do the job.
Mainstays Plastic Canning Funnel for Mason Jars, Home Canning Essentials, Gray
Jars in a hot`water canning bath are freaking hot! I used to use a variety generic kitchen tongs and pot holders, holding my breath I wouldn't drop and break the fruits of all my hard work, until my sister gifted me these. I've never looked back.
Mainstays Stainless Steel Canning Jar Lifter Tongs with Secure Grip Handles
My much beloved older Blue Ball canning guide and recipe book totally fell apart after years of use and it's much for the best. This is the newest version everyone needs for its inclusion of updated USDA safety guidlines.
Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving, 38th Edition with 500+ Mason Jar Recipes for Pressure and Water Bath Canning, Essential Canning Supplies for Safe Preservation
I inherited one of these 8-cup ancho hocking measuring bowls from my mom and would be lost without it for my canning sessions. A must for measuiring all your chopped veggies or fruit you'll be prepping in bulk for the canning process. Mine doubles as...
Anchor Hocking 2 Qt Glass Batter Bowl
You need a LARGE stock pot for cooking down your produce in batch canning. I recommend a durable one like this with a metal lid that won't chip or break and can be a work horse for for everything from your soups to your home jarred spagetti sauce.
Rachael Ray Enamel-On-Steel Induction Stockpot With Lid, 12 Quart, Almond & Reviews | Wayfair
My larger Pyrex glass measuring cups get a constant workout, not just in canning season but all year round. I love that they are microwave safe, making them especially great for keeping my sterilized canning jar lids clean and still warm in hot water...
4-Cup Glass Measuring Cup, Pyrex
These quart size canning jars are are well priced and versatile for so many things in my kitchen. I've used them for everything from canning, dry storage and holiday gifts, like soup and cookie mixes, sourdough starter, plus they fit my fermenting li...
Mainstays 32 oz Mason Jars, Wide Mouth Quart Canning Jars with Lids and Rings, 12-Pack Large Glass Jars for Home Canning and Fermenting
Every other year I'm looking for more canning jar stickers or tags to get me through the season. I designed a whole big bunch on Zazzle and loved every minute doing it. Now you can choose your own, tweak them and use them for yourself, too..
Kitchen Canning and Food Gift Labels
I try to buy my jars locally, because who needs chips or breakage.
Ball 12ct 16oz Smooth Glass Mason Jar with Lid and Band
My favorite size jars for jams, jellies and chutnies. Numerous big box hardware stores in my area sell canning jars, but this is the brand I know and trust, and they are usually well stocked
Ball Reg Quilted Crystal Reg 8 Oz Jelly Jars 12 Pack
Don't skimp on canning lids. Canning is too time and much work to have lids that haven't sealed reliably when you're all done. I've always had good seals with the Ball jar brand and especially like the button dome feature that's more visibly prominen...
(3 pack) Ball Regular Mouth Jar Lids and Bands, 12 Count - Walmart.com
The right pectin for the right recipe. This is mone for all my freezer jam recipes.
Certo Premium Liquid Fruit Pectin, for jams
I never knew how easy fermenting at home could be until I tried this ingenius little starter lid kit, that works with canning jars I already had. It comes with a small but great recipe booklet. The fizzy cherry tomatoes are incredible.
Fermentation Kit with 3 Airlock Lids for Wide Mouth Jars
My sister gave me this cookbook and it is a treasure for fermented foodie and drink recipes. It's packed with beautiful photos, historical and technical information and 100 recipes. 368 pages, I think it's the only one I'll ever need.
The Farmhouse Culture Guide to Fermenting - by Kathryn Lukas & Shane Peterson (Hardcover)
This apple peeling and coring gadget is a super time and labor saver. I love mine for canning apple rings, applesauce and pie filling. You can also find these easily on Ebay.
Progressive Apple Peeler & Corer Gadget
There can be lots and LOTS of chopping in food prep for canning. This 8-cup food chopper with its stainless steel slicing and grating plade has gotten me through 15 years of salsa making and is still going strong. It's compact and easy to store away,...
BLACK+DECKER 8-Cup Food Processor, Black, FP1600B
These rustic looking jar tags have a great home spun vibe you can customize them front and back with your won text.
All-purpose Rustic Brown Canning Jar Hang Tag
You can personalize these tags and dress up your home canning jars for gifting or selling at farmers markets,etc. with ones that are both pretty and functional for listing ingredients, potential food sensitives.
Canning Jar Jar Tags with Ingredients
I bought first my granite ware canner at my local Ace hardware years ago. After many years of hard service and hard water supply issues in general, the rack did accumulate rust. Ace still carries a replacement.
Granite Ware Canner Jar Rack 1 pk
I love the scoop style function of these nesting measuring cups and that they have large easy to see markings in both standard and metric ml amounts for easy conversion. They're super durable. I've had mine for years.
GoodCook Plastic Measuring Cup Set, White, 4-Piece
Farberware makes so many good kitchen tools and these hard plastic flat-bottomed nesting measuring cups are among my favorites for pre-measuring and setting aside while you work. Mine are a bit older and didn't come with the bonus scoop utensil, so t...
Farberware Professional Measuring Cup Set with Bonus Coffee Scoop, Assorted Colors
Reasonably priced and well-organized canning basics book from the trusted lab kitchens of the “Ball” brand name. Nice color photos, helpful measurement and conversion guides and many of the recipes options for lower sugar or other tweaks in your ingr...
Ball Canning Back to Basics - by Ball Home Canning Test Kitchen (Paperback)