Is it true?New Q steam from the handkle area?

[miss_thenorth]

That i don't need to sterilize my jars when pressure canning? I'm feeling brave today and doing the mushrrom soup (I am dehydrating 1/2 of the mushrooms and making the soup out of the other 1/2) Today is the day I can't find any of my manuals--(for the dehydrator or the pressure canner). So, refresh my memory- do I need to sterilize the jars for pressure canning?

TIA!

 

[TanksHill]

I think I would rather be safe that sorry. Run them through the dishwasher. I think that would be enough.

 

[homesteadmomma]

I just run mine through the dishwasher or wash them in a sink of hot soapy water and I am alive sitting here able to type this reply to you.

I have never boiled my jars or rings or stuck them in the oven. I do boil my lids though.

Honestly though I don't know what safety precautions they recommend.

 

[freemotion]

I don't sterilize for pressure canning. They get up to 240 F and are held there for a long time...you can't get anymore sterile than that. The most I do is put them in the dishwasher to heat them if I am using a hot pack method, just so I don't break jars.

If you are waterbath canning jelly, for example, and are only boiling for 5-10 minutes, you do need to sterilize everything. IMO.

 

[miss_thenorth]

No dishwasher. I just hand washed the jars in the hottest water I could stand, rinsed them in the hottest water, and they are now waiting for me. I just read in my complete guide to home canning book theat for pressure canning you dont' need to sterilize. According to Farmerlor's instructions for the mushroom soup, I am to pressure can at 10 lbs for 45 minutes. I can't poosibly wee how any bugs cold survive that, but then again, I haven't pressure canned anything on over 5 years.

Thanks!

 

[TanksHill]

Good luck, let us know how the soup base turns out.
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[miss_thenorth]

There is steam coming out by the one handle. Is this an indication that the seal is shot? Or is steam coming from there normal? Should I abort?

 

[patandchickens]

My pressure cooker always has some steam from near there, especially when you're first starting out. But I don't know about other ones.

If it hasn't done this before, I'd take it off the burner and quit, don't need no asplosions.

JMO, good luck,

Pat

 

[miss_thenorth]

I've got 16 minutes to go, I left it alone --and left the kitchen . I haven't used this thing in well over 5 years,--probably closer to 10, so IDK if it's normal or not. If it's gonna asplode, it's gonna do it with me nowhere near it--I'm hiding from it.

 

[patandchickens]

Makes sense to me.

(Also I just really, really like the word "asplode" )

Good luck, have fun,

Pat