Canning question

[TJB63]

Great Post - I'm looking into getting into Canning, I'm moving in about another month, Sadly my New Home has a Glass Top Stove, So I guess I need to come up with other means.

 

[elalexander]

Hi TJB. Welcome to Tractors R US I'll see what I can find out from the stove manufacturer and from Ball and maybe someother canning supply people. If you are getting excited about canning wait a week or so when garden threads with pictures start to pop up.

I bought a 4' tiller for my tractor last year and have a walk behind tiller for our "table" garden. Not really enough to can but it keeps fresh veggies on the table. Anyway, I took the deer fence down Friday evening and used my real tiller to make our garden bigger. It all started when the seed company catalouges started to show up. Now we will have a 18x38 garden so we will be able to put some things up. Biggest problem is the garden don't get full sun all day. Several trees around that "filter" the sunlight. It has been doing good the last couple of years, but full sun would be much better. My better half is wanting a bee hive to help pollunate and make honey. We both eat local honey. It is supposed to be good for allergies etc. Have to wait and see about the bees. Pretty neat idea though.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

My better half is wanting a bee hive to help pollunate and make honey. We both eat local honey. It is supposed to be good for allergies etc. Have to wait and see about the bees. Pretty neat idea though.

My better half wants bees also.

I can give you a link where you can buy everything that you would
need to get started....it is a good place and they send us catalogs too.

We use a pressure and a dry bath canner.

 

[elalexander]

Thanks JohnDeere4300. We would like to know the web site for bee supplies. I think I get catalouges for everything but bees.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

Thanks JohnDeere4300. We would like to know the web site for bee supplies. I think I get catalouges for everything but bees.

The place that sends us catalogs on bee supplies is having a problem with their web site....the site is...www.glorybee.com.....I don't know if the site is down or if they went out of business...Sorry about that.

But you can search the web...."bees and supplies"

Look for a place called..."Ruhl Bee Supply"....They have been in business for 111 years....But there is other company's when you do the search also.

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

I'm new here. Started canning again a few years back, had not since leaving home many years ago. I had a new gas range at the time. It has a glass top with elevated grids and you can use a waterbath or pressure cooker on it. However, I use one of the turkey cooker outside on my patio, it works fine. I'm thinking of getting an older stove to use outside just for canning. Hubby is going to put me sinks in the garage where I can wash and prepare veggies and not have all that mess in the house, particularly for tomato juice.

 

[dmccarty]

We have a flat top stove and I would not have any other kind. I'm the one that cooks at home.

We have a heavy AL pressure cooker that hold 7 pints I think. Maybe 4 courts. The thing is heavy. Our stove is a Maytag and the manual is similar to what Bird quoted. Don't put a pot on the stove that went more than an inch outside the "burners". Not had a problem with it at all.

I did see something interesting on TV a few weeks back regarding flat top stoves. My kids like to watch Jon and Kate Plus Eight. Kate was cooking a big pot of veggie soup, took the lid off, and put it down flat on the stove top. There was moisture in the lid which formed a seal on the stove top. As the lid cooled it formed a vacuum and busted the flat stove top!

I never even thought of that happening but it makes sense once you know it can happen.

I never have put down lids like she did, that makes a mess that has to be cleaned up. Sure ain't doing it now mess or no mess.

Later,
Dan

 

[Bird]

I never thought about that happening, either, Dan, but like you, I never put a lid down on the stove top anyway.

 

[Bird]

Dan, after I said I hadn't thought of it, I was just now checking our manual for something else when I found:

"Do not leave a hot lid on the cooktop. As the cooktop cools, air can become trapped between the lid and cooktop, and the ceramic glass could break when the lid is removed."

Of course it does seem to me that instead of saying air could become trapped, it should say a vacuum could occur.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

We bought a new flat top stove when we moved into the new house. Canning is not recommended on the flat top so we also have a canning kitchen down stairs with the old stove. I forget the main reason but I know one was something about the constant heat, if you turn the flat top on high for instance, the "eye" will glow red as it heats up then will fade some and the glow again. The for some reason affects the canning process.

I am not the canner my wife is. She is a school teacher and canning is her hobby during the summer, beans, every kind of jelly, juice , spaghetti sauce, salsa...works the you know what out of me in the garden...been like this ever since she was published in Taste of Home magazine.