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Years ago I began canning sauces and currys in old jars. I'd heat the jars in the oven, laden in boiling hot sauce, cap and seal. Stuff never went bad. More recently I started doing the same thing with a vacuum sealer added in. Again, stuff never went bad. But with the vacuum sealer I started canning stews and soups as well, everything sealed and I never lost anything.
We became spoiled. We got used to having prepared food in the basement that we could just heat up. Used to be we'd keep things the fridge, and stuff would often go bad before we finished it. Not after we started vacuum sealing it.
Until last year. The vacuum sealer stopped working, don't know why.
We decided to get an actual pressure canner. The lure of having lots of yummy prepared food that we could just heat up was strong, and I was always worried my own method would fail some day. We like the canner, it cooks stuff as well as sterilizing it, which is really cool.
Except it hasn't worked. Haven't been able to seal one jar yet. I'd make a lousy farmer.
That, and I'm practically allergic to hard physical labor.
We became spoiled. We got used to having prepared food in the basement that we could just heat up. Used to be we'd keep things the fridge, and stuff would often go bad before we finished it. Not after we started vacuum sealing it.
Until last year. The vacuum sealer stopped working, don't know why.
We decided to get an actual pressure canner. The lure of having lots of yummy prepared food that we could just heat up was strong, and I was always worried my own method would fail some day. We like the canner, it cooks stuff as well as sterilizing it, which is really cool.
Except it hasn't worked. Haven't been able to seal one jar yet. I'd make a lousy farmer.
That, and I'm practically allergic to hard physical labor.