Cassandra
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Now that I got my new pressure canner (woohoo) I am about to sell my old boiling water bath canner. I just can't afford the space for these two big bulky items that do the same thing. Anyway..
with all this talk about steam canners, it got me wondering.
In a boiling water bath, you cover the jars an inch over the top with boiling water and I can do that just as easily in the pressure canner as I could in the boiling water bath canner.
But, instead of boiling water bath, couldn't I steam things, in a few inches of water, in my pressure canner? Would that do as good a job as a boiling water bath? Would I need to adjust the amount of time the good were processed? I'm talking about for things like jelly and tomatoes.
Cassandra
with all this talk about steam canners, it got me wondering.
In a boiling water bath, you cover the jars an inch over the top with boiling water and I can do that just as easily in the pressure canner as I could in the boiling water bath canner.
But, instead of boiling water bath, couldn't I steam things, in a few inches of water, in my pressure canner? Would that do as good a job as a boiling water bath? Would I need to adjust the amount of time the good were processed? I'm talking about for things like jelly and tomatoes.
Cassandra
