canning

[rbeau30]

Does anyone use a portable burner or hot plate for canning.

I'm looking at something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846


I'd like to move some of the heat out of the kitchen and have more room to work. I wondered if anyone uses something like this. If so how is it? How many watts do you need, is 1300 too much or too little? This would be used on a Presto 23qt.

Thanks

I have not used one of these... this looks like a good idea. Summer time, it would be awesome to set up a station out in the garage or something to keep the heat out of the house. I have used a turkey fryer burner before, but that was disastrous when I took my eyes off it for a couple seconds.

[rbeau30]

http://www.restaurantequipment.com/HOTPLATES2.html

The Cresco Restaurant supply store (Right off I225 and 6th avenue) has a few on the website (1500 watt Heavy Duty). A couple hundred more watts than that one. You are probably looking for something a little less expensive though.

But these ones you should be able to actually see in person.

[rondog]

Interesting thread. I'd like to try canning, but the wife doesn't want anything to do with it. Bad childhood memories probably.

[clodhopper]

So why does she have to be involved? You can do all the canning and all the eating.


My wife likes to water bath can and makes jellies and stuff. I do the hard core and bulk canning, ie pressure canning and bulk water bath veggies. The wife doesn't have a good handle on pressure canning and managed to ruin two canners boiling them dry, so I have henceforth banned her from using it ever again.

[rondog]

So why does she have to be involved? You can do all the canning and all the eating.


My wife likes to water bath can and makes jellies and stuff. I do the hard core and bulk canning, ie pressure canning and bulk water bath veggies. The wife doesn't have a good handle on pressure canning and managed to ruin two canners boiling them dry, so I have henceforth banned her from using it ever again.

Money. Perhaps after I get back to work. Hell, if I could, I'd like to live in a place where I could have a veggie garden and chickens. She DAMN sure don't want any of that action!

[clodhopper]

My wife digs the chickens. She talks to them like they were pets. I guess to her they are pets. To me they are egg generators and future dog food.

[Dave]

I have not used one of these... this looks like a good idea. Summer time, it would be awesome to set up a station out in the garage or something to keep the heat out of the house. I have used a turkey fryer burner before, but that was disastrous when I took my eyes off it for a couple seconds.

What went wrong using a turkey fryer for canning?

[rbeau30]

What went wrong using a turkey fryer for canning?

Apparently, it made the aluminum of my presto 23 qt canner too maleable, and the bottom became round. The sudden loss in pressure made half of the quarts explode inside, and the rest loose most of the liquid inside.

Didn't get a whole lot for scrap. :-(

BTU output was too high I am guessing. Upon looking at the instructions (for which I promptly discarded when unboxing) it says not to use a fryer burner.

[Irving]

Think my barrel stove would be too hot? I can easily get it up over 600*, but it doesn't usually stay that hot.

[clodhopper]

Apparently, it made the aluminum of my presto 23 qt canner too maleable, and the bottom became round. The sudden loss in pressure made half of the quarts explode inside, and the rest loose most of the liquid inside.

Didn't get a whole lot for scrap. :-(

BTU output was too high I am guessing. Upon looking at the instructions (for which I promptly discarded when unboxing) it says not to use a fryer burner.

Yes, the aluminum cannot deal with that amount of energy. One way around it is to get a circle of steel similar in diameter to your canner, about 3/16 or 1/4" thick and set that on the burner under the pot. This is how I have run my canner on a big propane camp stove.

I looked on craigslist and picked up a used cook top for $10 (think the burners of a stove without the oven). Planning to install in a cabinet on the back porch. I commonly run at least two canners at a time.