Canning recipes, food preservation and food sales

[rbeau30]

I didn't bother with the rack because the jars won't stand up straight with it in there anyway. There were only 3 pint jars in there to start, then one broke. When I put the last one in, I immediately started seeing stuff that was in the jars floating in the water of the pot. I went back in with the jar holder because I thought I had a lid on wrong or something, and everything poured out of the bottom. I strained out the the jalapenos and just kept boiling.

Now that the jars have been cooling, they both have sealed, so that's good. On the plus side, I'm trying a cheddar, jalapeno version of my no knead bread.

Awesome!

I think the culprit was the absence of the rack. My G'ma said to never can without the rack at the bottom. The heat is too intense on the other side of the pot of the burner.

However, since it broke immediately; It could have also been that the contents of the jar were either too cold (the liquid you used to fill the jar was cold and you put it in hot water) OR the contents of jar were too hot (you hot-packed the contents and put the jars in cool water)



I had the bad luck with 16 quarts of chicken stock Thursday. I decided I was going to try out some Tattler reusable lids and not read the directions. Had to reprocess ALL of them.