Poppinfresh
Senior Cook
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- Mar 8, 2006
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Sucked into yet another method by Alton Brown, saw an episode of Good Eats he did on this and got my interest picqued. Hopefully moreso than the whole "vacuum sealing" and "food dehydrating" phase I went through that lasted about 2 days...that sealer was the biggest waste of cash..
I can find the sets (50 bucks for the whole she-bang on Amazon), and my hardware store has all the mason jars one could ever want..but I need a definitive book on the subject. Kind of an all-encompassing, all you ever wanted to know about canning and preserving but were afraid to ask sort of deal.
It's just gonna be fruits and pickles and the like. The thought of canning meat products ranks right up there with my desire to eat that crap you see in the "nasty food section" of a grocery store that contains such gems as Hormel's "dried pressed beef in a jar" and Vienna sausage...which is to say, really low.
Besides, I figure it'd be a shame to waste the marionberry, blackberry and blueberry plants I have in my back yard and the strawberry plants out front.
Recommendations?
I can find the sets (50 bucks for the whole she-bang on Amazon), and my hardware store has all the mason jars one could ever want..but I need a definitive book on the subject. Kind of an all-encompassing, all you ever wanted to know about canning and preserving but were afraid to ask sort of deal.
It's just gonna be fruits and pickles and the like. The thought of canning meat products ranks right up there with my desire to eat that crap you see in the "nasty food section" of a grocery store that contains such gems as Hormel's "dried pressed beef in a jar" and Vienna sausage...which is to say, really low.
Besides, I figure it'd be a shame to waste the marionberry, blackberry and blueberry plants I have in my back yard and the strawberry plants out front.
Recommendations?
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