Canning

[SealDriver]

(12 December 2012, 09:47)BDG Wrote: Highlander - when yanks refer to canning, they really mean putting stuff in jars. The kit is usually a very large pressure cooker and screw lidded jars - it is the pressure cooker that is the expense. I have seen them on Ebay new in the USA for £70 but then you have shipping on top of that. I have seen them in the UK for £140.

It would be worthwhile I think to look for some space in a shipping container coming across and stick some of these in and put them on Ebay / Amazon.

BDG they do look a lot like pressure cookers but they infact produce twice the amount of pressure and heat than the ones we see in this country, they also are much larger so that they can accomedate two layers of jars and the tray the jars sit on off the pan's base. The Pressure cookers that we use are just not up to the job unfortunately.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Presto-01781-Pre...487&sr=1-1

This is what we are looking at, but with postage and import tax, it comes out at twice the price!

We could go for cheaper models but then there is the issue of safety.