[Homesteadingfamily] Re: Canners...

Hi Tenzicut!Yeah, MIL's is a BAUMASTER and it does 14 qts or 28 pints at
one time! It is a behemoth on the stove! LOLI have two older ones from
probably 30 years ago, and they are very heavy, too, but still aluminum.
I have never seen one in stainless...they usually use the aluminum for
heat conductivity....but I'll bet yours is nice! I love stainless and
cast iron to cook in, that is all we use here. But, I am ok to can in
aluminum since the food products don't contact the aluminum pot at all.
What brand it yours? The older ones do have weird looking pressure
gauges...and mine has a "jiggler" type weight with 5, 10, 15, and 20 on
it, so you place the jiggler on the canner with that hole for the
pressure that you need it to get to...and the blowout valve is a lead
weld in the lid!
I have 4 canner bodies, but cannot find gaskets for two of them, so I
use them if I need them for something else (mostly collecting dust! LOL
, but do not can in them any longer. That is why I like the MIL one...is
has Bakelite handles that do the closing, no gaskets at all...metal to
metal and those handles screw the lids down. I is overkill, though, if
only doing a few jars...and to think that NONE of his family CANS! It
just sits there in storage...and she had been dead for 6 years! Oh
well....~deb
--- In Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com, "tenzicut" <tenzicut@...>
wrote:
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> My mom gave me her older pressure canner which I just love and I will
take very good care of it. Compared to the ones sold today, this is is
HEAVY. It is a stainless steel one, but the gauge is much different than
the ones sold now. If anyone can get ahold of one of these type (not the
aluminum ones), SNAG IT. Look at garage sales, freecycle etc..
>
> Too bad you can't your MIL's one Deb. I bet it is probably one of the
heavier types.
>
> tenzicut
> http://www.downtotherootsmagazine.com
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