{"id":1248,"date":"2011-04-29T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2011-04-29T03:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:00:57","slug":"qa-breaking-in-a-new-canner-and-canning-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/04\/29\/qa-breaking-in-a-new-canner-and-canning-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Breaking in a new canner and Canning potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Breaking in a new canner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I Just got an All-American 930 canner and I read that it needs to be \u201cbroken in\u201d a few times for it to seal properly. I bought it used but it was only used once. It works fine, but there is a popping sound once or twice as it heats up. Is this normal? I used a slight amount of Vaseline, as directed, on the mating surfaces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dan Norgard<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Prescott Valley, Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is normal. The canner lid is just seating firmly to the bottom with a tunk. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning potatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve got a question about your Q&amp;A on 4-18, you talk about raw packing potatoes and onions, I&#8217;ve been using your book page 154, and boiling my potatoes for 10 minutes, then pressure canning as stated. My potatoes are more like potato soup, they lack texture. Is the raw pack something new? Will this method help my potatoes have better texture, I&#8217;ll be sure to pencil this in you think it will help?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pamela Riggle<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Madison, Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actually, raw packing potatoes and other vegetables is not a new thing, but the old way we used to do them. However, the new recommendations are that we pre-heat our potatoes before packing them. Some varieties of potatoes, chiefly those high in starch, do sometimes break down when packed as slices or small dices. I can not recommend that a person raw pack vegetables, although that&#8217;s what I do myself, because of the new recommendations by experts. Raw packing does produce canned potatoes that are more consistently firm. I am always sure to use boiling water to cover the raw potatoes and exhaust my canner well before closing the petcocks and beginning to build up pressure. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking in a new canner I Just got an All-American 930 canner and I read that it needs to be \u201cbroken in\u201d a few times for it to seal properly. I bought it used but it was only used once. It works fine, but there is a popping sound once or twice as it heats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}