ponytug
Super Member
Go for the beer! You can make better than you can buy pretty easily.
All the best, Peter
All the best, Peter
Canning Stuff.
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Oaktree
Super Member
I wish more supermarket delis still sold meat/cheese ends. 25-30 years ago you'd see them all the time, but no one around here seems to do it anymore. I'll have to ask what they do with them next time I'm at the store.
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Larry Caldwell
Elite Member
I have lucked out with an independent megastore that is a great place to shop. It matches Costco prices with a much wider selection, and beats Walmart prices on almost everything. They deal with a local USDA slaughterhouse for meat, and most of it is local beef, grain finished but on pasture. The chicken is CAFO but also mostly local. Lamb is local, pork I dunno. That's where I bought the 18 lb. rib roast for $3.37/lb. All I had to do was cut it into steaks and vacuum seal it. They have an institutional section, case lots, unusual stuff like the 30% acid vinegar that I use for rust removal in the shop, and yes, their deli sells ends and pieces of meat and cheeses, including bacon.
They still limit canning lids to 2 boxes per customer, but I keep a year's supply in advance.
jyoutz
Super Member
Walmart isn’t limiting canning lid purchases.
I really got sticker shock when I went into the grocery store yesterday. I don't buy much meat as I raise pigs and poultry every year but am out of ground pork until this year's pig comes back from the butcher. I was there for a can of beans and some hot dogs... YIKES!
The beans have gone up 50% in the last few months. Time to dig out the bean hole before winter, so that I can do up a 10 quart pot and put some in the freezer. Then I went to find the dogs- 8 bucks for a pound!!! It works out to a dollar a dog.
Instead I bought a package of ground sirloin, which was 1.20$/lb less than the hot dogs.
Most of the people I know who used to can, stopped because it's so much cheaper to buy canned goods at the store. I have all of the capability but not the interest, for the same reason. I do freeze some green peppers every year. they add some zest to a spaghetti or chili. I try to freeze a few whole, for stuffed peppers when the winter is getting long. Other than that I keep a few weeks of canned goods on hand, and a few bags of frozen vegetables in the freezer. My power hasn't been out for more than a few hours in the 19 years I've lived here... we are tied directly into a Canadian grid ad our coop is very proactive about keeping the wires cleared.
The beans have gone up 50% in the last few months. Time to dig out the bean hole before winter, so that I can do up a 10 quart pot and put some in the freezer. Then I went to find the dogs- 8 bucks for a pound!!! It works out to a dollar a dog.
Instead I bought a package of ground sirloin, which was 1.20$/lb less than the hot dogs.
Most of the people I know who used to can, stopped because it's so much cheaper to buy canned goods at the store. I have all of the capability but not the interest, for the same reason. I do freeze some green peppers every year. they add some zest to a spaghetti or chili. I try to freeze a few whole, for stuffed peppers when the winter is getting long. Other than that I keep a few weeks of canned goods on hand, and a few bags of frozen vegetables in the freezer. My power hasn't been out for more than a few hours in the 19 years I've lived here... we are tied directly into a Canadian grid ad our coop is very proactive about keeping the wires cleared.
Sawyer Rob
Super Member
I can a lot of dry beans all through the year,
it's just so easy and I really like the way they come out!
I don't think there's anything easier to can!
SR
it's just so easy and I really like the way they come out!
I don't think there's anything easier to can!
SR
jyoutz
Super Member
How do you can dry beans.I can a lot of dry beans all through the year,
it's just so easy and I really like the way they come out!
I don't think there's anything easier to can!
SR
jyoutz
Super Member
Canning is cheaper than store bought IF you grow the veggies or get them free.
Oaktree
Super Member
Yeah, I don't see much to be gained by home canning if you have to buy the vegetables, plus it's a lot of work. I've cut way back on my canning...just don't have the ambition anymore to grow a huge garden then have to scramble to preserve it all in a fairly short time window...a time of year when I have more than enough projects already.
Of course, one big upside to canning is that you know what's in there (ie-no salt or other preservatives unless you add them).
Sawyer Rob
Super Member
Wash the jars in hot water, have some water on the stove near boiling (once boiling, I keep the fire under it on low) and put a jar in it along with a lid. I put another jar in, every time I take one out and for a qt. jar, add one cup of "any kind" of dry beans to it plus anything else you like salt/pepper/ or whatever, even a piece of ham or bacon and fill with hot tap water to the bottom of the neck. (a half cup of beans, for pint jars)
I run my finger over the top of the jar to make sure it's clean, set the lid on and put the ring on, "lightly" tightening it, and set it in the canner that's already on the stove with the water in it and the fire under it.
With the canner full, lid on, I exhaust it the 10 mins, and then let it build steam and keep it at 10/11 pounds for 90 mins.
No matter how old the dry beans are, at 90 mins, they will come out soft and ready to eat.
You can adjust the beans/water ratio to your liking, of how much liquid you want in your canned beans.
I can fill the jars/canner faster than I can tell you how to do it!
SR