Canners and Other Equipment

Home Canning Kits #1

Home Canning Kits #2

2. The same as the kit above, but without the jars, jar lids, Ball Blue Book and coupons. Around $20. There is a separate kit of supplies further down the page.

Home Canning Kits #3 - Larger

3. This is the same as the one above, except larger - 33 quarts.  This means it holds 9 quart jars instead of 7. About $39

Jumbo Water Bath Canning Package. Features:

Blake's rating: Same model as the #1, just wider to hold 2 more jars, long lasting, well built
 

Stainless steel water bath canner

About $74

Made of stainless steel, so it should last a lifetime - it would also make a great pot to cook applesauce.

Heat resistant silicone handles protect your hands and ensure a secure grip. Dual steam vents on the lid prevent fogging so you can see inside. Corrosion resistant rack holds jars of various sizes. 21-quart size. Stainless steel. Hand wash.

Canning Rack System - May be out of stock right now

This multi-use canning rack system turns any very large pot into a canning pot and facilitates many culinary tasks like blanching and sterilizing. Used with a large saucepan or stock pot, the racks lift and hold mason jars for easy insertion and removal of jars. The racks elevate the jars off the bottom of pot to prevent glass breakage. These racks have multiple wires to hold all jar sizes, including small jars which won't tip and fall through the rack when lifted. Also great for blanching, steaming, or boiling corn or lobster.
Includes two stainless steel racks (a small one for 9½ - 10½" diameter pots and a large one for 11 - 12" diameter pots), a set of adjustable stainless steel lifters, instructions and tips.

Be sure to read the reviews (click the Amazon link at left)

Extra tall canning pot

Canning equipment - everything but the pot
long lasting steel version, including a rack

This seven-piece canning kit provides all the essential tools needed for getting started.

Features

Canning Accessories Kits - everything BUT the pot, flat rack

If you already have a 10 qt or larger pot, and you only made a few jars at a time, this may meet your needs. This is also perfect for canning small jars, like the 4oz, 8 oz and pint jars that can slip through the standard canning racks.

Home Canning Kit contains all the essential canning tools in one simple kit. The Home Canning Kit contains a convenient Lid Lifter, Canning Funnel, Jar Lifter, Jar Wrench, and Kitchen Tongs, plus a rack. These items can also be purchased separately, but the kit's price is less than the separate prices. These are great tools for water bath, steam, or pressure canning.

Blake's rating: Great accessory kit! 

More canning accessory kits - with Jar tongs, funnels, bubble freers

These kits have the jar tongs and everything else you need, except for the canner and rack.

Canning Accessories by themselves

Jar tongs to lift the jars in and out of the canner (without burning your hands!)

Funnels to fill regular and wide mouth canning jars!

Lid lifter - to pull the lids out of the hot water, again, without burning your hands!

Canning Racks

These Water Bath Canner Rack fits most boiling waterbath canners.

• Stainless steel rack is 12-1/4-inch in diameter
• Holds up to 8-pint or 7-quart jars or 12 half-pint jars

Blake's rating: Excellent replacement racks (sooner or later your rack will fall apart from the boiling water (and no, this one is not made of silicone...)

Miscellaneous Canning Supplies

Looking for funnels, jar tongs, lid lifters and more?  See this page for a variety of canning items

Canner for Glass and Ceramic Stoves

If you have a glass or ceramic stovetop, you may have found that it is impossible to find a canner for you stove!  Look on this page!

Pressure canners!

If you want to can low-acid foods such as red meats, sea food, poultry, milk, and all fresh vegetables with the exception of most tomatoes,  you will need a pressure canner.  These foods  fit into the low acid group since they have an acidity, or pH level, of 4.6 or greater. The temperature which must be reached and maintained (for a specified amount of time) to kill the bacteria is 240 F. Pressure canning is the only canning method recommended safe by the U.S.D.A. for low-acid foods such as vegetables, meats, and fish. Ordinary water bath canners can only reach 212 F and can not to kill the types of bacteria that will grow in low acid foods. This temperature can be reached only by creating steam under pressure as achieved in quality pressure canners.

There are several manufacturers of pressure canners.  The two leading ones are Presto and All American (Wisconsin Aluminum). They are more expensive than water bath canners, but they are extremely well built - I bought mine in 1988 and it still looks and works like new!

If you're new to pressure canning, see this page for a complete description of how pressure canners work, why they're better, and step-by-step directions on how to use one!

And if you lost the instruction manual  for your canner, click here for free downloads of many canner's instruction manuals!

Presto 01781 23-Quart Pressure Cooker/Canner

This canner is usually about $79.  (which is a GREAT price for a pressure canner). There is also a 16 quart version for about $69. Click on the links at left for more info and current pricing.

Features:

• 17 by 15-1/2 inches; 12-year warranty
• Heavy-duty 23-quart aluminum pressure canner and cooker
• Comfortably ergonomic, stay-cool black plastic handles
• Strong-lock lid with pressure regulator, dial gauge, and overpressure plug
• Comes with canning rack to protect jars during canning

Shown at left is the Presto 23 quart pressure canner. Features below and click here for more information or to purchase from Target.
Features:

All American Pressure Canner and Cookers - In 3 Sizes

Canning Jars

Canning jars delivered to your doorstep and guaranteed! Any size you need.  Click on the links below

Canning jars: quart (32 oz) jars

Canning jars: pint (16 oz) jars

Canning jars: 8 oz jars

Quilted Canning jars: 4 oz glass jars

8 oz canning jars shown below:

Quilted 4 oz jars below:

Anything you could need is here, at discount prices

Some examples:

• Home Canning Kits
• Canning Jar Lifters
• Canning Lid Lifters
• Canning Jar Wrenches
• Kitchen Tongs
• Crinkle Cutters
• Canning Lid Sanitizers
• Canning Funnels
• Stainless Steel Wide Mouth Funnels
• Big Mouth Canning Funnel w/ Sieves
• Deluxe Stainless Steel Funnel w/ Strainers
• Ball Bubble FREER Spatulas
• Korona Stainless Steel, 6 Qt. Deep Colanders
• Stainless Steel Colanders
• 9 inch Granite Wear Colander
• Vegetable Brushes
• Cook's Tools
• Jelly Strainer Stand with Jelly Bag
• Jelly Strainer Bags
• Grip EZ Chopper/Scrapers
• Racsk for Water Bath Canners
• Strawberry Hullers
• Tomato Slicers

Books

Canning books

Canning & Preserving for Dummies
by Karen Ward
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Click here for more information, reviews, prices on Amazon.com for Canning and Preserving For Dummies

The Ball Blue Book of Preserving

This is THE book on canning!  My grandmother used this book when I was a child.  It tells you in simple instructions how to can almost anything; complete with recipes for jam, jellies, pickles, sauces, canning vegetables, meats, etc.  If it can be canned, this book likely tells you how! Click on the link below for more information and / or to buy (no obligation to buy). (about $6.99)

Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving

by United States Dept. of Agriculture

Food Preparation Equipment

Make the job faster and easier with these great tools!

Pea sheller:

Bean "frenchers" and pea shellers

It is tiring and laborious to prepare green beans for canning; there are so many of them and you do them all by hand.  But wait there's a new device that makes it easy.  Hmmm, actually, these devices have been around since our great-grandfather's day!  Here are several different types and makes, some hand fed, some cranked: choose the one that meets your need and budget!

For photos and features of the bean frenchers, click here!

And there's a pea sheller, too; to make shelling peas easier.

More Canning Supplies

Decorative Canning Lids:
 

Lids and Rings (jars are above)

Need lids, rings and replacement jars?  Or pectin to make jam, spaghetti sauce or salsa mix or pickle mixes?  Get them all here, and usually at lower prices than your local store! Click on the images at left for current prices and/or ordering! 

Get them all here at the best prices on the internet!

Cleaning supplies to remove rust from rings and jars

A visitor wrote in to tell how she uses Copper Glo (order at ledt) to remove rust from rings and jars:

A visitor writes on September 15, 2010: "You mention not using jars that have rust on them. One way to remove rust from jars is with Copper Glo. I get Copper Glo at our local Giant Eagle. I had a jar with rust on it and was getting ready to pitch it when my mom told me about Copper Glo. I was afraid to use it at first because I was afraid it would scratch the jar, but decided it was worth a try. Amazingly, the rust came off and the jar wasn't scratched!"

Pectin, Pickle Mixes and Sauce/Salsa Mixes

Making Jam?  Need Pectin, but the local store is out?

Is your jam too runny? Pectin enables you to turn out perfectly set jam every time.  Made from natural apples, there are also low-sugar pectins that allow you  to reduce the sugar you add by almost half!

Get them all here at the best prices on the internet!

Pickling Mixes and Pickling Supplies

Pickles

Whether you want dills or sweet pickles; canning them or straight into the refrigerator; there is a mix for every taste and need here!Get them all here, delivered direct to your home,  at the best prices on the internet! Get everything you need to make pickles: mixes, salt, brine, etc. here!

Sauce and Salsa Mixes

Get ready season mixes for tomato sauces and salsas here.  They make it simple to get it right every time!

(Shown is Ball brand - actual is Mrs. Wages brand)