Introduction to Canning: Beginner’s Guide to Safe Water Bath and Pressure Canning

By Linda C. Johnson

If you've always wanted to learn how to can and preserve food but can never find the time, then keep reading.

 

Learning how to preserve food with a canner can seem daunting at first but with the help of this short beginner's guide, you'll be a professional in no time. Not only is canning good for the environment, but it can also transform your health while saving you money. The time to start limiting our food waste is now. 

 

Learning this life-changing skill doesn't have to be complicated. In truth, it is much simpler than you think; after all, humans have been canning for over two centuries. As a primer to the books Pressure Canning Without the Danger!, The Essential Guide to Pressure Canning for Beginners!, and Water Bath Canning for Beginners and Beyond!, this guide works to help you find your footing before you jump into the deep end of creating and canning your own delicious recipes.

 

In Introduction to Canning: Beginner's Guide to Safe Water Bath and Pressure Canning, you'll discover

• The biggest mistakes people make when they first start canning that prevent them from fully utilizing this important skill.
• The two different methods of canning and when to use them.
• What supplies and equipment you'll need to have the safest and easiest experience.
• The secrets to successfully processing your goods.
• A brief history of canning and its relevance in the modern age.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: CustomerCore
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215493397

Linda C. Johnson

After mastering the art of canning through years of trial and error, Linda Johnson has decided to share the magic of healthy and safe food preservation with the world! Grab a copy of her book "Pressure Canning Without The Danger" and visit www.customercore.eu to get Linda's essential FREE "Cheatsheet For Canning Safely" as well as her FREE Step-By-Step Checklists for "canning successfully Ever Time" and "17 Essential Items You Need to Can Successfully". Linda had a humble background. She grew up on a farm in rural Kansas and was brought up always eating the freshest food possible. Which is why she teaches her kids that eating a healthy, delicious and fresh meal is always the way to go! Linda is a loving wife and mother of 4 children. As her children were growing up, Linda realized that it could be quite hard keeping up with 4 lively children and a husband that would always ask for a second plate of dinner. This is why when Linda got a chance to start back canning and preserving, she jumped right into it and did her best to educate herself about the entire process. After tending her farm, Linda loves to take her fresh produce, make delicious mixes, and preserve them for convenience! It took a lot of trial and error and many years of experience before Linda was finally able to master the arts of canning and food preservation. If you want to get into canning and preserving yourself, then be sure to grab a copy of Linda's book and you'll come to love it just as much as she does!

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Introduction

The beginning is always today. –Mary Shelley

Welcome to the wonderful world of home canning. As someone who started their own canning journey many moons ago, I can assure you that this experience will not only be fulfilling but can actually be life-changing. I understand that this may sound cliché, but once you’ve finished your first batch of home-canned goods, you’ll know exactly what I mean. There are a million reasons why you have decided that now is the right time to learn this new skill. Whether you want to start a business, be healthier, or just want a companion hobby to gardening, there’s only one place to start: the beginning.

Beginnings are usually accompanied with feelings of excitement and fear. These two emotions will be your greatest assets. Without fear, we throw caution to the wind and that is when accidents happen that could easily have been avoided. Most mistakes don’t matter in the long run, but unfortunately there are some deadly consequences. As for excitement, this emotion is a precursor to passion. Having a passion for what you are doing will be your greatest weapon in creating a journey that will lead to places beyond your initial expectations.

DEVELOPING YOUR SKILLS and knowledge will not be easy. There’s a lot to learn when it comes to basic canning procedures. Canning isn’t rocket science, but it is still a science. Processing times and method limitations aren’t suggestions. Safety should be your utmost priority and the best way to do that is research, research, research. Your canning journey isn’t a race; it’s okay to take extra time to thoroughly understand something. As long as you're willing to put in the time, you’ll have no problem mastering the craft.

Chapter 1: What’s the Deal With Canning Food?

Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today. –Kilroy J. Oldster

The Modern Significance

To understand the modern significance of canning food, we first must understand its past. While food preservation has been around for thousands of years, the method of canning is relatively new. The journey began in 1795, in the ever-fashionable country of France. Their latest trend of the time, on par with their western counterparts, was revolutionary wars. The notorious French General Napoleon Bonaparte had realized that fighting on a battlefield was quite detrimental to one’s nutritional health. To solve this issue, he offered 12,000 francs to anyone who could find a new way to preserve food. Fifteen years later, in 1810, a French chef named Nicolas François Appert would earn that reward when he introduced the world to canning.

Over the next 200 years, canning would make its way across the world, being improved upon every step of the way. While industrial canning has never gone out of style, home canning has often peaked in popularity during wartime or food shortages. The last large peak in the United States was in the 1930s and 1940s. Since this time, the United States has certainly faced its fair share of war and food shortages, so why haven’t we seen the same increased levels of home canning? In truth, there’s likely a million ways to answer this question but to keep it short and simple, we just want to be lazy now. The industrialization of food consumption has made the entire culture around home canning feel obsolete. Why grow and