Over the last decade, the Ball Canning folks have brought a handful of canning appliances to market. The first was the FreshTECH Jam and Jelly Maker in the summer of 2012. The FreshTECH Automatic Home Canning System was the thing during the 2014 canning season. And now, we have the Ball FreshTECH Electric Water Bath Canner and Multi-Cooker.
This electric canner is exactly what I know a number of you have been hoping for. It’s a giant pot that has an independent element so that you can move your processing pot off your stove top and over to the counter.
It holds 8 quarts, nine pints, or a dozen regular mouth half pints (that means that if you stack them, you can process 24 quarter pint jars at once). It’s particularly great if your stove is slow to boil water or if you’ve been warned off canning on a glass top cooktop. It works like any other boiling water bath canner, so if you live at higher altitudes, you will still need to adjust your processing time upwards.
It has a spout on the left side of the canner, so if your kitchen is arranged in a way where you can set the canner to the right of your stove, you can drain the water directly into the sink. The canner comes with a steaming rack as well as a canning rack, so that you can use it for all your high capacity steaming needs (I could see it being perfect for tamale parties).
It can also be used as a portable cooker, so can work for large amounts of soup, chili, or even something like mulled cider. Nice if you help with community potlucks or church suppers.
I’ve now run a number batches of jars through the canner and I am really happy with it. It’s not going to become my primary boiling water bath because I make a lot of small batches and it doesn’t make sense to heat up this much water for two or three pints, but for larger batches, it’s a boon.
It’s also incredibly useful during tomato season and I’ve started bringing it with me to my classes and workshops where I know we’re making multiple batches and so we’ll need more canner space.
This canner does cost $149.99, which is a pretty penny if you already have a canning set-up you like. If you like the idea of moving your canning pot off your stove top but can’t swing that price point, there is a more affordable way to create something similar.
Get yourself an induction capable stock pot (a classic speckled canner with a flat bottom will work) and the induction burner I have (it’s just $60) and you have a canner you can run anywhere (I highly recommend outdoor canning on really hot days).
My bottom line on the Ball FreshTECH Electric Water Bath Canner is that it’s a great tool for people who do lots of large batch canning. If you have the budget and storage space for it, I highly recommend it.
Disclosure: The folks at Ball Canning sent me a FreshTECH Electric Canner for review and photography purposes at no cost to me. They are also provided a giveaway unit. No additional compensation was provided for this post and all opinions expressed are my own.
my grandmother and mother both canned vegetables and pickles every summer. We ate vegetables year round and I loved helping them. I would love to continue the tradition and this would help me on my way
It would be so awesome to win this as i only have a small setup right now with a sq ft garden growing! !!!
up until 7 yrs ago I was canning w/a pot I bought in the 90’s. But we moved and the stove is a glass top so I can’t can/preserve. I’m so anxious to learn more about the new Ball multi cooker. I really appreciate your posts and would be thrilled a winner. – thank you
I use a medium size water bath or a stock pot and jar rings for small batches. This electric water bath would be excellent to use when I go back to rv living.
I am a beginner canner and am looking forward to canning this year. My mom pasted away when I was young and so I had no one to teach me. I have a few supplies and would love to win this.
I have an enamel water bath canner and my mother-in-laws pressure canner. Use a propane burner out doors, so my house doesn’t get too hot
I’m new to canning!!! Last year I made apple butter, blueberry jam and strawberry jam. I’ve always wanted to learn how to can, but no one in my family canned, so I had no one to teach me…. Well, I figured it could learn this on my own. Lol! And absolutely LOVE making jams! I give them as gifts and of course keep a few for myself. The strawberry j that I made last year was by far my favorite, ever!i
I ended up just buying a large pot to can it. Nothing fancy. I also have a glass top stove, so I am a little paranoid I’m going to do something wrong! Eeek!
Anyway, thanks for this opportunity!!!
i have the big blue speckled pot. I’m ready for something new and exciting! I will be canning TONS of tomatoes and peppers this summer. This would be a fantastic addition to my prepping arsenal!!
I still do my hot bath canning old school. The big kittle with the rack to put the jars in, set the timer and wait. One of the new hot bath canners would sure make my work easier !
I can still hear my Mom & Grandmother talking while canning, they would spend hours talking about every thing. Learned a great deal listening to them about canning and receipts. Young people today would rather buy there food that prepare it themselves. The old way is much better and taste much better! You can control the salt and sugar in the jars.
Thanks for listening to me.
I have stopped trying to can/preserve after three unsuccessful years. I did, what I thought was, everything right from sterilizing the jars to cooking the apple sauce well but each time I got mold in the jars. I made a ginger apple pear sauce last year and it was so disheartening to find most of the 36 jars were unusable!
An amazing canner like this would get me back in to canning and preserving our amazing produce.
I remember my aunt teaching me to can and I’d love to make her proud.
Thank you for the chance to win this product.
Lesli.
I and Our Son-in-law need a new one. He raises a wonderful Garden each year and cans his produce. So Proud of him
I have a big old enamel canner. It is so much larger than the burners thst it’s not possible to use it on my stovetop. I’ve expanded my garden snd hsve to freeze the produce unleds I use a stockpot and smaller jars. An electric canner would be a Godsend.
I have been seriously canning for eight years with the old standard speckled black water bath canner. I have a garden and sell my canned products at local farmers market. Would love to have this canner to use. Thank You,
Mrs. O
I would love to win this! I garden, but have never gotten to can anything because the supplies are so expensive. This would be a dream come true!
I been eyeing this beauty for quite a while. I have my Grandmother’s canning kettle from both sides and my Mom’s. I love doing an outdoor kitchen set up when I can. I have been fortunate to live alot of places. My collection of canning jars ALWAYS travel with me! The jars are packed like fine china! LOL My husband does not question this fact as he, my family and friends enjoy the wonders every year. Embracing and introducing this craft to my younger friends is a mission. Every time I am canning I feel my Mom, my father’s mother and my maternal grandmother working with me. Helen, Clara and Suzanne would be extremely thrilled. I would be too!
Thank you!
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I am using a stockpot. I am canning more and growing a lot of my own food to avoid the pesticides and GMO products. My canner got lost in a move and I am in need of a new one. This one sounds perfect.
I’ve had to throw out my old speckled canner because it got a funky gunk in it from some spaghetti sauce that boiled out of a jar, and I just couldn’t get rid of it. So I used a large enamel pot last year, but it doesn’t have a jar holder, and the jars clink together when it comes to a boil. Plus, I have a glass top stove, and I don’t like to do my canning on it. I can’t afford a new system because of medical bills. I would really love to try this new system out. Thank you for considering me!
This would really be a wonderful addition to my kitchen.
All I have ever used was the old blue and white speckled enamel canner. I haven’t been canning recently because I have read they are not safe anymore. I have had a friend come to my home and bring their pressure canner to can some beans with me. I have never got the nerve to try pressure canner myself. I would love to win one of Balls’ new canners and get back to canning
This would be perfect for me. I have a hard time carrying big heavy pots of water and I could set this up right next to the sink. I also like the additional uses. Oh, I hope I win.
I have an old aluminum pot (which I’m now finding out that aluminum is linked alzheimer’s, I know we are not eating out of it…but trying to get rid of all aluminum and plastics) I would LOVE this water bath (and it is on my list to purchase). I have a cooktop that says in the directions that you are NOT suppose to use the cooktop (it’s glass) to can with….so my glass cooktop is all scratched up as I can not lift the pot when it’s full of water. Thanks for offering this in a giveaway I have my fingers crossed and my kiddos do too!
I have the speckled water bath canner and was recently gifted a Presto pressure canner. I use them on my glass top stove or water bath can outside on the camp chef set up. I would love to try the electric canner!
I am using a classic blue enamel pot on my glass top stove for water bath canning. I can a lot of jellies and pickles every year for our use and to give away as Christmas present because money is tight. It can be a real pain to try to get all of the pots that I need on the stove at once and my canner is really large. I have told my husband that I WANT one of these for Christmas this year and I think he is putting money back for it but it would be awesome to win this one!
I use my mothers blue speckled pot to can peaches, pears, tomatoes, and cucumber salad.
I am using my mom’s old pressure pot for water bath canning. The lid was lost long ago, but the pot is nice and thick and I believe will last forever.
I bought my water bath canner from Ball many years ago. The canning book that came with it is so awesome. I actually have several other BALL canning and freezer books that I use it for most canning recipes. This FreshTech Electric Canner would be great. I do a lot of canning as my husband thinks its not a garden unless its a huge garden. I would be so pleased to be the winner of this great appliance. Wow. Thanks Ball for the opportunity to have a chance to win this.
I have a small inherited aluminum pot that I’ve used in the past for canning, for the most part I make refrigerator pickles and lacto ferment because of my lack of equipment. Seems like this beaut might be just the ticket!
This would be awesome to free up the stove! Plus, my WB canner’s bottom is about to go.
Oh, my goodness!!! What a great giveaway! I have been canning for about five years, and still consider myself a novice. I have a glass top stove, but that has not stopped me! However, now that I see this FreshTech Electric Canner, I am thinking that if I don’t win this, I will likely buy one. . .at some point!!!! I love to can and dehydrate and freeze and whatever else I can do to preserve food. Like I said, I am not great and I am always learning. . .isn’t that what life is all about! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I hope that whoever wins uses their new canner with love and joy!!!
My son as a joke got me the bigest blue speckled pan he could find. He’s like here mama you have such big pan you can make enough food for all my squadron in the Air Force. I have been using it regularity so I can send some canned goods home for the guys. They get some homemade goodies when their mama isn’t there. But it is hard to use sometimes because it is so big. But I love to cook so I make it an give the boys a taste of home!☺☺☺☺
WANT ONE!!!!!
I use an old fashioned blue speckled, worn out canning pot with the wire lifter inside. I would love one of these for my tiny kitchen where much canning happens year round. It would actually free up my stove for whatever is being cooked to preserve!
I come from a long line of canners and I am proud to carry on this tradition. There is great self worth in providing for your family through your own hands. When I first learned, I used the inverted method. But safer methods have moved the process to using water bath and pressure canners. I have an old pressure canner. I use the pressure canner pot for the water bath method without the lid as I have not had the gauges tested. I hope to be considered for this giveaway. It would be great to show my mom, also a canner, new ways to make things a little easier for her. 🙂
I am just getting interested in canning and have tried a few things but I only have a single burner in my small kitchen.
I have a gigantic stock pot that gets used for everything, including canning. No pressure cooker yet.
as of yet I haven’t been able to purchase a canning setup but can’t wait to start!
I can with a pressure canner my father in-law bought me for Christmas a few years ago. It works wonders for large batches of tomatoes, soups, meats, etc, but it would be so helpful to have a water bath canner for small batch jams and jellies.
What a beautiful invention! When I lived near my parents’ farm, I always borrowed my mom’s canning equipment, which included hand-me-down pieces from both grandmothers. Since moving another state away, I have had to rely on the kindness of a new friend, who loans me the canner from our local Williams-Sonoma store’s test kitchen. It’s not convenient, but it’s my only option until I can afford my own.
Crossing my fingers! Whoever wins will certainly have fun!
I am currently using two enamel canning pots w/ jars racks and a big Ball pot (which I love) once I’m done using it to make jams.
This new pot would be a huge help in our kitchen because my husband can set up the processing while my sister and I can keep using the stove for cooking. This way we can spend less time in the church kitchen waiting for jars to be done! I can’t begin to tell you how much we need one of these and how excited I was to read you had tested it out!
I can with a pressure canner my father in-law bought me for Christmas a few years ago. It works wonders for large batches of tomatoes, soups, meats, etc, but it would be so helpful to have a water bath canner for small batch jams and jellies.
I have been canning for the past 3 years. I didn’t learn until I was an adult. I use this big green speckled pot with a broken vegetable steamer basket flipped upside down in the bottom. It’s kind of curved so I have to carefully balance the 7 jars I can fit against one another so they stay upright. My mother, who lives 2500 miles away, also cans and we ship jars of goodies back and forth. I send her tomatillo salsa from AZ, and she sends me bread and butter squash pickles from MI. It’s a way to share a meal and stay in touch. I would love a new set up so I can share more love with far away family.
My current set up is so limited because my husband and I are living with my parents while we look for our own home and their kitchen is tiny! Currently I use a large stock pot with the silicon trivet you recommended, or I use an asparagus steamer pot for small batches of 2-4 jars.
I would love to be able to can outside this summer since taking over the whole kitchen for my project means inconveniencing 3 other adults who need the kitchen. It would be so great to get out of the way
I have a smallish stock pot for small canning projects, but if I am doing a full batch, I dig out a giant 10-gallon pot (used for brewing) that leaves scorch marks on the stove. I’ve only just started using a silicone trivet, before that I went without a canning rack.
I use a granite canner for water bath and a pressure canner for the items that need require the higher temp/pressure to process. I’d love to make more room in my kitchen and move the canning process to a cooler area.
I grew up canning with my parents. I have canned off/on when I could in my live. At one point I took the class and was certified as a Master Food Preserver. For the past 15 years, I was living in a home with a glass top stove which made canning a challenge. I recently moved out to the country and into a small log cabin and am getting back into canning. Being able to can NOT on my stove would be a big benefit in my kitchen, especially during those sweltering late summer/fall days (and no air conditioning!). I’m always looking into making the best use of my space e.g., I have also ventured into sous vide, mainly because it frees up my kitchen area. I use a “granite” canner for water bath and a pressure canner for the items that need require the higher temp/pressure to process. The canning pieces of my kitchen have been with me many years and 5 states. I’d love to add this to my repertoire. It would definitely be used!
I would love to have one of these. I’ve always wanted one of these, but they are so expensive that I could never afford to get one. I want to start eating healthy and I believe by having one of these, we can have fresh food to eat instead of all those processed food.
this is such a great giveaway. I am actually just starting out and don’t have much yet.
Thanks for the chance to win.
I am very new to canning. I bought a large enamel pot with a wire rack for jars at a yard sale last year. I am planning a larger garden this year and hope to get to use it more. So far I’ve only canned some jams and jellies. I am unable to use artificial sweeteners and am always on the lookout for recipes that contain natural alternatives for sugar.
I learned to can in high school with my amazing Home Ec teacher, Jean Newman. I would like to pick it up again to make healthy food for my family and elderly Mom. This product looks like I could make that happen!!
I am a beginning canner. I have a glass cooktop and it takes FOREVER to heat the water to preserve my jams and pickles. I use my Ball FreshTech Jam and Jelly Maker to make small batches and love it especially as they have so many recipes and keep coming out with more. I am sure this new water bath canner is just as great and would be a lifesaver (or at least home cooling cost saver).
Oh yes; I am still using the old blue, speckled enamel pots for my canning. The ones with the wire thing inside to lift out the jars. Which I have burned myself with lifting out the jars.I have a smooth top stove so I know that this canner is my dream. I also have my mothers, grandmothers, and a yard sale find; pressure cookers. It was my mom that always used the pressure cookers because I was afraid of them and still am.That’s why I use the water bath method for my canning of apples, pears, beans, tomato juice, tomatoes, salsa, squash, okra, and anything else I can do with the water bath method. The use of your electric pot would get used summer and fall for canning and in the winter for cooking up all the things I have canned.
I would like to enter your sweepstakes. I am only a 3 year small gardener. I use my neighbor’s canning supplys . I would like to be a more efficient canner. Thanks for listening. Connie
I have been canning since I was a teenager. My old water bath pot actually had a hole in the bottom! So a few years ago I purchased a new one. The pressure canners I used are also very old 50+ years but still work perfectly!
My canning setup is just a giant spaghetti pot that spent years (before my discovery of canning) looking for a practical use. It’s been great, and has survived several kitchen purges, but I have been debating moving on to something more substantial for the next tomato season. I learned to can in my grandmother’s cobalt blue, speckled enamel pot. It’s gorgeous, and she is still getting a ton of use out of it- grape jelly, chokecherry jam, rhubarb jam, salsa. It’s amazing how some of the most simple equipment continues to be the best! Unrelated, but the added use of this new, electric pot for mulled cider is a major selling point!
We have a canner set-up we bought several years ago where you have to time it carefully and watch the little pressure gauge thing at the top. It works pretty well with my OCD husband but it would be great to win one of these and take the guesswork out of it!
I give canned demonstrations with several items from my Grandma Anna. The thought of being the third generation to pass on the joy of preserving your own food is a lot of fun. I would love to be able to demo this beauty as well.
I give canned demonstrations with several items from my Grandma Anna. The thought of being the third generation to pass on the joy of preserving your own food is a lot of fun. I would love to be able to demo this beauty as well.
I started canning again last year after a long hiatus, I had given all my supplies away. This would be awesome to get me up and running again this season as my veggies come into season.
I have been using a tall (and my widest) stockpot. Sometimes it’s just not wide enough as I’m doing more canning. I have been reading all the reviews and LOVE to try this!
I have used a speckled enamel canner until it finally had a hole in it. It will need to be replaced. I would love this new canner.I can whatever fresh goods I can get my hands on. My group of friends want to do a pickle party this year and we’ll help each other make pickles. Having this canner would be awesome because we’d love to move to the porch to do this.
I have a glass cooktop – got a single burner to use – but I don’t use it it! Help. I need this!!
I have been canning 30 years. All my stuff has been around awhile. This looks wonderful.
I use a 2nd hand granite ware water bath canner with a round, metal cooling rack inside.
I grew up watching my mom can many jars of pickles and salsa every summer from our bountiful backyard garden. I have enjoyed learning to can from her as an adult and the bug bit me hard last summer. My husband loves to cook and has a very large stock pot for sous vide cooking (or a big batch of pho one time), so I borrow it for canning with an insert I bought on amazon. The pot is large enough that it takes up a little too much space on the stovetop when I have other burners going with jam or pickling liquid. A separate device would be handy!
I use the standard canning pot you can get at Wal-Mart. Would love to have a new canning pot.
I started canning 2 years ago, and am a self-taught canner. It has been such a lifesaver as I have growing boys in my home, and this has helped me utilize the food when it is in season. I use a granite wear HWB canner that I picked up at a yard sale that first year for $5. It has served me best, but we just bought a new home, and have a glass top stove. I’m going to have to set up a canning cooktop somewhere this summer, especially for pressure canning, but this new Ball FreshTech would sure save me on the HWB canning!!
What a unique Invention. Currently, I use the water bath technique on a gas stove. Love canning and sharing what I can, can. Still too afraid to try the pressure canning method. Maybe this year.
I did some canning when I lived in nova scotia in the 70’s & really enjoyed it. I moved back to Massachusetts & never thought of it again. I made jalepeno chowchow a few yrs ago & my family loved it but not all jars sealed. I have brand new canning tools & jars & would like to start again. please, I really love this
A couple of years ago a started getting the urge tostart going back to my roots. It started with a small garden and has grown since. The bigger it got the more had and couldn’t give it all away before it would go bad so I felt waste full. I then went to my grandmother and ask her to teach me how to can. She was a great teacher. We just use a old stock pot with jars. I love it! The food iitaste so much better and know I’m getting no extra additives. Would like to try old ways versus The new ways. Thank you.
Currently use a stock pot with a round metal cake pan at the bottom.
I use a standard granite ware setup for hot water bath canning. I did splurge for an All American pressure canner. I have wondered why Ball has not made an electronic pressure canner/cooker. That would be the only one I might get that spendy on.
I currently use the speckle-ware pot system. In my small home, this system really heats the whole place up in late summer making it warmer inside in August than outside! My preference is to do large batches with pint jars as it is only for me. Also, I should mention that I cook on a wood-burning stove. It is a 1909 Majestic that fit my budget, free. If I am the opportune winner of this wonderful looking canner, it would make my life so much easier. Thank you for allowing me to enter and have a great day.
I grew up on the farm and helped mom can. I am just about ready to retire and returned to gardening three years ago. I still remember how to grow vegetables. I now have a small 20 x 20 foot garden plot and grow enough to share with four neighbors plus what we eat. I have started to freeze some of the produce, which is okay, but I want to return to canning.
I will be 56 year young this July and I have been canning and freezing since I was 8 years old. Old enough to help with the water and cleaning and snapping of the green beans. The very first canner I helped with was a navy blue ceramic canner with a double rack in my Grandma’s very tiny kitchen. I remember that day well because we were canning and doing laundry on her wringer washing machine and hanging it on the clothes line. Since that day I have had several canners of my own. I also have used a pressure canner that I bought at a yard sale my second year of being a bride. I since then have purchased a newer pressure canner. But I still use both methods of the pressure canner and the hot water bath, it just depends on what I am canning and what my sunny disposition is that day. LOL to all of you young Girls who do not know how to can and preserve, you are truly missing out on a wonderful part of life.
I use a speckled enamel canning pot.
I am using a combination if old and new for my canning needs. I would love to try this!
I’ve always been interested in canning, but never took the time to do it. 2 years ago we bought a house on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and we’ve started to cram as many tomato plants, beans, squash, radish, etc. onto our rurban (rural urban= living in town in a rural area) plot. This would be great in our abundant tomato season. We use several different sized pots we have gathered from family over the years. This would be a great addition to add modernity to nostalgia in keeping the canning tradition alive.
I use a water bath on the stove to seal my jars and a old presser cooker my mom gave me she had for many years
I I use a large stock pot with a dish cloth in the bottom. I really need a new set-up.
Found my pressure canner at a yard sale close to 20 years ago, had been using water bath before that. Still use water bath occasionally. My husband started canning with me when he saw it didn’t have to be done outside over an open fire. We still can as much as we can and give it as gifts to friends and family.
I only do water-bath canning (so far). I use a 12-quart stockpot with a round metal cake-cooling rack in the bottom. We rent, so I didn’t have any choice in stove-top style, and the house came with a glass-top stove. I worry about that, both from the standpoint that it might not be maintaining a proper temperature (although I’m certain enough that I don’t let that stop me) and that canning on it might be harmful to it, as the area around the burner and the edges of the stove get very hot. This FreshTECH appliance would be a fabulous solution!
Hubby & I started canning 4 years ago so that we could bring food down for when my son’s Company (he was stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY) came home from Iraq. Hubby & I prepared the welcome home meal for the troops & their families. We now can almost everything. We try at least one new recipe a season. The most requested is Apricot Habanero Jelly and then our Spicy Hot Pickles.
We have a six burner stove, so we have plenty of room to cook & can at the same time, but when the temperatures start getting hot, we move the water bath outside to our single burner.
We also do pressure canning.
Yes, we are addicted to canning & sharing what we do…….
My set up is a stockpot w/a cake rack in the bottom. That’s a graduation from an aluminum pie plate with holes punched in it. For small batches I use an asparagus steamer. This would be so great! None of my pots are tall enough for quarts & although I don’t use them much, it’s nice to can large batches of pickles or tomatoes!
I have always wanted to can tomatoes but have never done. This device looks awesome for a beginner with my stove having a ceramic cooktop. Looks like it would offer the additional function of making soups.
I didn’t even know there was an issue with canning on a glass cooktop! Would love to try this instead.
My daughter and I can every year almost all year. we usually have 3 canners going plus pots with tomatoes or apples stewing. we make our own spaghetti sauce, chili and catsup, sometimes bbq sauce. Plus applesauce and lots of jams. This would work so well for us to use and clear up some burners
HI. I started canning with my mom when i was young. She used to do the best canned fruit and tomatoes that we enjoyed all year when I was a kid in the 50’s and 60’s.In my 20’s, I had my own huge garden and canned lots of produce on my own with a canner that she gave me and I still have. The inside rack is a bit rusty, but it still works. Canning is one of my favorite summer/fall activities because it’s such a pleasure to see the storage shelves loaded with tomatoes, pickles, jellies, jams, relishes and fruit. It always reminds me of my mom (gone 10 years now) and working with her in her kitchen. Now my daughter is also interested in canning, so I’ve given her an extra one from Mom’s house. I would love to try that new electric canner, though. It sounds superb – no more hours of gas burning in a hot kitchen, lifting and pouring a huge pot of hot water when all is done, and space to do more small jars at once, saving time and energy. Thanks for doing this for a lucky winner.
I used to can several years ago, but having to move around I eventually got rid of my canning supplies. Now that I am in a place that has pretty good farmer’s markets, I am trying to get back into canning the great produce that is available.
I started canning last year when my Roma tomato plants began producing more than I could keep up with. I found an old pressure cooker at the Salvation Army store and was able to can enough jars of spaghetti sauce to keep my family happy all winter but I think the gasket has had it because it seemed to be losing pressure. I would love to have that beautiful Ball FreshTECH Electric one. I’m planting strawberries this year and making jam would be the perfect way to break it in. 🙂
Using old pressure canner a friend gave me.
i have been using my mothers pressure canner she gave a few years before she passed away a it 20 years ago. It has a lot of jars pass through it!
I use a blue enameled canning pot or a pressure canner, both bought at yard sales decades ago. I can a lot of jams and chutneys (trying to find out if I can pressure can or water bath can bacon jam safely). I muscle the pots around and because of arthritis some days are tougher than others. But I’ll never stop because I love it so much. Having the electric pot would be fabulous… I don’t think I’ll find one at a yard sale!
up until this year I have borrowed a canning pot (from anyone willing to let me!) so for Christmas I asked for a stock pot and trivet… I haven’t tried it out yet so I am not attached and I am sure I could grt used to this freshtech instead 😉
My mother did not can anything except tomatoes that she grew in a tiny space near our house. She took pride in those tomatoes. I now grow and can everything from my own garden. Being only 40, I don’t find many of my friends canning. Its kind of a lost art. I use the typical large pressure canner. I would love to be able to utilize a canner for other things and store in my kitchen.
I’ve been canning for almost 50 years. Use 3 large canners. Lots of work but the rewards are many. Every year I say it’s the last year I’ll be canning. Then as soon as the fruits and veggies start appearing, out comes the equipment, I must say that everything is getting heavier every year that I get older. The demand for my garlic dills has grown over time so I can’t quit now.
Just started canning last year. Found an aluminum pressure cooker at a peddlers mall in Berea, KY. Lid has 6-8 screw downs around lid. Has silicone/rubber plug. Lol this seems like it could get us out of the heat of a canners, fall kitchen.
I actually use a big stainless pot my husband uses to make beer… On a propane burner from a turkey fryer! So this is limiting because I have to keep it outside, but it is a good setup as far as keeping a steady temperature, etc.
I use a stock pot with jar rings on the bottom..it works but this canned looks amazing!
I am a 50 year old disabled man that started gardening as a way a the to pass the time, so I desided to learn to teach myself how to can so I ask my mother in law which was very helpful. and went looking for a canner and they were very pricey but lucky I was got one given to me but it is on its on it last leg. Now I have been ask by my brother and a cousin to teach them how to can tomatos and pickles and could use new unit.
I inherited my current water bather from my mother in law 35+ years ago when I first became interested in canning. The seal no longer works and it leaks all over my stovetop but every time I use it and the many family canning recipes, I think of her and Grandma.
I remember both my grandmother and mom canning. Fruits, tomatoes and venison. After awhile my mom stopped saying it was too much fuss to do. I miss the canned venison the most. Those where good times!