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  • Jar Half Full or Half Empty?

    From Drew Lawson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 1 02:53:08 2021
    Seeing as I have not killed the garden yet, I have some small-batch
    experiments that I would like to try this year. Main thing on my
    mind is various ketchup recipes (probably mustard-ish as well).

    The intent had been to can them in half-pint jars. But like most
    of y'all, I haven't seen regular jar lids on sale for what seem
    like forever. I may have a dozen in a drawer, but probably fewer.
    I normally don't use them much.

    But a few years back I did a wide-mouth bulk order from Lehmans.com
    (don't bother, they've been sold out for a year).

    So is there any problem with canning (BWB or pressure, according
    to recipe) half-full pints? I can't think of one, but the in-canner
    heat path has always been a bit of a mystery to me.

    These will all be sauce consistencies (not too thick or chunks).

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    Drew Lawson | "But the senator, while insisting he was not
    | intoxicated, could not explain his nudity."

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to Drew Lawson on Sun Aug 1 05:55:16 2021
    Drew Lawson wrote:
    ...
    So is there any problem with canning (BWB or pressure, according
    to recipe) half-full pints? I can't think of one, but the in-canner
    heat path has always been a bit of a mystery to me.

    with ketchup i think there is enough reduction that
    using pints will be taking up a fair amount of tomatoes.

    with just a few lids to work with i'd fill the pints
    up to the recommended head space (about an inch or so).

    for the way we use ketchup a pint really isn't that
    much.

    check the stores regularly when you are out for lids.
    we see them once in a while and also had a shipment of
    canning jars (several pallets worth) come in recently.


    songbird

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 1 23:03:28 2021
    Wide-mouth straight-side half pints make really good serving dishess
    for my pickles. But I bought my half-pints several years ago.

    There were canning supplies in the big-box store I toured yesterday,
    but the display seemed smaller than I remembered it.

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  • From Drew Lawson@21:1/5 to Drew Lawson on Tue Aug 10 20:50:10 2021
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    drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) writes:

    The intent had been to can them in half-pint jars. But like most
    of y'all, I haven't seen regular jar lids on sale for what seem
    like forever. I may have a dozen in a drawer, but probably fewer.
    I normally don't use them much.

    But a few years back I did a wide-mouth bulk order from Lehmans.com
    (don't bother, they've been sold out for a year).

    I finally broke down and ordered 100 lids from Amazon. I don't
    know why that feels like cheating, but it does. I'd have much
    prefered sending my money to a cooking/preserving business.

    I threw in a copy of Small Batch Preserving, since that is what I
    expect most of this year to be. The garden is a disaster of weeds,
    but is producing.

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    | Had no spare
    |

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