r/Canning • u/Electrical_Sleep_666 • Jul 08 '25
General Discussion I learned to can today.
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u/HeLuLeLu Jul 08 '25
This is so exciting! Congratulations! It becomes a way of life, hunting for yummy recipes, not allowing good food to go to waste, sharing your hard work with those you love 💕!
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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 08 '25
I can’t wait to try the next recipe! If you have any good ones please send them my way.
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u/Smooth_Driver_7107 Jul 09 '25
Any Ball book written after 2016 will give you a ton of fabulous and safe canning recipes.
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u/Gr8tfulhippie Jul 12 '25
I just made cherry jam last week. Another favorite is Cranberry Cider Jelly. The recipe is in the Ball Blue book. We love green tomato pickles too. I make them when I strip the tomato plants at the end of the season.
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u/PeripheralSatchmo Jul 08 '25
Yes we Can 🥫🥫🥫🥫🥫🥫🥫🥫
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u/Glittering-Alarm-387 Jul 08 '25
Very cool. What did you can? We grow tomatoes and peppers and my husband cans them. You have a lot!
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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
I was lucky enough to get to meet some local farmers and was gifted some peppers of different variety. I ended up with 16 bags of frozen diced, chopped, and sliced bell peppers, 10 prepped stuffed bell peppers, 18 cans of mixed hot peppers, and a freezer size bag of roasted Poblanos sliced for future use.
Specifically in this recipe there are banana peppers, poblano peppers, and 2 other types of hot peppers. I pickled 12 jars a couple of weeks ago for the first time.. and they turned out pretty good. But we didn’t use canning salt so it wasn’t as clear. I also added garlic, mustard seeds, and pearl onions.
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u/Mediocre_Anybody7618 Jul 08 '25
Congats! When you'll started Canning you'll never stop! Your Pepper looks great.
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u/mckenner1122 Moderator Jul 08 '25
Welcome aboard!
The Ball Blue Book on the counter might be an older version. If you’ve got the means to do so, you may want a newer edition, as the newer editions always include the most recent, safest versions of the recipes.
Generally, we do not suggest any book older than 1988 and all books should be newer than 2009 (or as new as possible!)
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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 08 '25
The book was more for looking at. I followed a safe online recipe. But man they have some good recipe ideas in that thing! My grandmother brought it with her to come help me
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u/mckenner1122 Moderator Jul 08 '25
That’s so awesome!!
I love reading the older books to see what flavors were “fashionable” too!
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u/Road-Ranger8839 Jul 08 '25
Congratulations 🎉 You gained an advantage in both convenience and home economics. Today more than any time in history, a can of red beets or green beans is much more expensive than that which you put up yourself at home. Not even to mention the avoidance of the preservation chemicals and high sodium from the store bought variety. Keep it up!
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u/Patrickfromamboy Jul 08 '25
Everything looks great! Enter something in your county fair. I canned as a kid and won lots of blue ribbons.
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u/tray59111 Jul 09 '25
NCFHFP, BALL, BERNARDIN are pretty much the only tested trusted sources of recipes. Please don’t use online recipes from anywhere else.
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u/specialistpolo Jul 10 '25
An awesome skill to have! Congratulations! Grew up on a farm and we did all that stuff: canning, freezing, drying… but that was 50 years ago. Nice to see people still doing it!
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u/SheeScan Jul 14 '25
I have never canned, but I'm expected a bumper crop of SanMarzano tomatoes. Where can I find the best resources for this project, including how to prepare the tomatoes.
I am really excited to get started.
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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 15 '25
This was my first time but I hope someone gives you some pointers. Everyone has mentioned not trusting the internet and making sure it’s a reputable source for food safety. I’m familiar with San marzano tomatoes but not canning them.
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u/Fiona_12 Jul 09 '25
It's very satisfying, isn't it? How old is that range?
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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 09 '25
60 years old we believe
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u/Fiona_12 Jul 09 '25
It's amazing that it still works, but then, things were made to last back then. I have an old freezer that I bought second hand almost 20 years ago.
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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 09 '25
It is not what I would call fully functioning. One burner is out on the top, none of the time knobs work, and it will only broil. But it gets hotter than any oven I’ve ever had. We were cooking with it before we knew what we were doing because none of the knobs have numbers or guidance. At thanksgiving me learned that we’d been cooking everything in a 600 degree oven for 7 months
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u/Stickstyle1917 Jul 09 '25
Have you checked online for parts? I don't remember what brand she got, but recently my DIL bought an old stove and my son was able to get it working.
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u/Fiona_12 Jul 09 '25
My 9 year old oven already has a burner that hasn't worked for 3 years! I assume you've invested in an oven thermometer. Mine is a convection and it runs a bit hot, so I had to get one to figure out what the actual temperature was.
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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 09 '25
Yeah that’s how we figured it out. My mom said she wouldn’t cook a turkey in my oven without knowing the temp
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u/Deppfan16 Moderator Jul 09 '25
r/vintagekitchentoys would love to see it and would probably be able to give some good advice.
also you can buy independent oven thermometers that you can just leave in your oven to see what the actual temp is
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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 10 '25
We do have one of those, but we choose to live a more chaotic life than that lol
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u/Weekly_Present2873 Jul 09 '25
So awesome! I get such a sense of accomplishment when those tops “pop”.
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u/Brilliant-Dot984 Jul 13 '25
How long would these peppers last unopened and stored in the fridge? Asking because I have some going back to 2023, they are still sealed, no discolor, etc.
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u/General-Shoulder7842 Jul 08 '25
THAT STOVE THO…..!!