/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11123742
Canning: Pressure canners, water bath canners, jar lifter, jars, lids, and rings.

A water bath canner can be any container that can hold water 1 inch over the jars while standing on canning rings on the bottom. So a deep stock pot can do quarts and shallower pots can do pints or half pints at least.

Prepping: Squeezo Strainer, antique Universal Food Choppers, Corona/Victoria grain mill, dehydrators, jelly pan (bowl-shaped pot kettle)

The older plastic dehydrators are gone and I now use one of these,
https://www.yescomusa.com/products/10-tray-stainless-steel-commercial-food-dehydrator-1200w

For alcohol I have everything I need to make beer, but I only make wine, mead, and country wines using large pots & glass gallon jugs, glass 5-7gallon carboys, and glass 15 gallon demijohns. I think the only specialized tool I have for that would be the wine thief, but I have a ton of air locks and tubing. I also use the Squeezo Strainer for juice extracting.

>>10101715
>Who else has one?

I have one.

>What do you dehydrate?

Everything.

>>9855425
•Higher wattage = better. like 1000 watts and up only
•All metal = better
•Hole-size in racks matters; too wide and food falls through, too small and it is a pain to clean, paper towels work for non-sticky/non-overly wet foods
•never overload where air flow is blocked, make some channels vertically so air can always flow better
•Don't dehydrate when it is raining, the air will be too humid and it will take forever.

I have one similar to the one in the OP, you can see it in the photo here. You can usually stuff 10lbs of just about anything in it. I use it for all my farm needs.

>>9856903
They do sell those and they do warp and melt over time.

>>9796583
No, the term, "canning," does not reference a metal food can. The first canning containers were also glass jars, fyi. It comes from the Latin "canna" meaning "container".

>>9796605
I don't use salt preserving. The only sugar preserving I do is for jams, jellies, and fruit preserves. For the dehydrated stuff, I just store those in canning jars and vacuum seal them with an adapter.

>>9644938
What can't you put into it?