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IMO I would only pressure can this. There are 2 methods that I know of for safety. One is to use the highest processing time/temp of your ingredients. So you would look up the time/temp for all your ingredients and go with whatever is the highest/longest. You could also use one of the...

A storm took out my pear tree, so we had to harvest early. I now have tons of pears in the kitchen. The bigger ones will be split up for ripening to eat and be canned in halves. I am not paring and pitting all the tiny ones. Food mill here we come. LOL So other than pearsauce and pear...

I know what you mean. Somewhere I aquired an old Better Homes and Gardens one from the seventies. It has recipes and then whole day menus laid out. So you can utilize your canned goods for entire meals all day long. You have to watch out for outdated info though.

I always put partial fills in the fridge. It placates the scavengers (DH & DKs) so they'll leave my freshly sealed jars alone. I've never thought about processing them. Why waste a lid and space in the canner. As for sterilizing jars, I rarely do. It is only necessary if you are...

I can't seem to get DH to understand the whole "seasoning" process. I almost always have a partial jar I just put into the fridge that they all start on right away. I think of it like fresh coleslaw or pasta salad. Can you eat it and will it taste okay right away, well yeah. But they'll be...

I never reuse for canning. I have used over the pantry jar thing. Mostly I saved them up and gave them to one of the kids' teachers. She put things on 1 side and used them for matching games.

You could all see about a class together. I always wanted to go to one, but never got the chance. Some extension offices have them for a couple of dollars.

I've only had problems with tomatoes. Getting a mill so I could process faster and then spraying the kitchen was all I came up with. I have a ton of pears I'm needing to ripen. I'll try the brown bag and let you know how it goes.

If you must tinker, use a pressure canner. Easier to tinker with pressure canning IMO. You can do most anything with that and just use longest/highest process for ingredient rule. If you really, really want to tinker with a waterbath (meaning tomato, not pickle or jam) recipe, just see if it...

I have a friend that broke hers while canning. I think older canners and older glass tops probably a bad combo. So word gets around you shouldn't can on a smooth range. Obviously some companies have addressed this and newer canners for smooth top ranges and newer ranges have been developed...

When I started I hot packed everything. After 2 days of carrots one of my neighbors came by and saw what I was doing. I never wanted to see another carrot at that point. She said "Are you entering them in the fair?" Which of course I wasn't. And she said why kill yourself? Thus I was...

In all fairness I never thought anything good or bad about mine until a couple days ago. It was just a dehydrator like most everyone else owns. Cheap, readily available accessories and all. Two years ago I went with the extra trays and fruit leather guards. I think it was a combination of...

Partway down is 1. Bit more elaborate. HTH

I could be wrong, but my understanding between the whole hot pack/raw pack issue had more to do with final appearance and amounts than anything else. Hot packing the food is pre shrunk, so you can fit more into the jar and will have less floaters. After processing the jar will still be full...

I love to sew just about anything, but I do terrible zippers. Why? I crochet fine, but knitting...you don't even want to know. Canning...smooth sailing...until....SALSA!!! :th I cannot can salsa or applesauce to save my soul. I try and I try, but it never works out. :he I have more lid...

I have the Nesco American Harvest also. I liked it at first, but I think more that I liked the concept. It's cheap and extras like more trays and fruit roll up shields are more readily available. I have to move the trays around if I want even drying, which is a a pain sometimes as I'll forget...

The contents shrink more when you raw pack. If your not planning to enter the fair, don't mind having less in the finished jars, using more jars, etc. raw packing IMHO is just worth the time savings and not having to handle the hot jars. Sounds like you did just fine. I use/cook just like...