Steam canner manual

Register this and other Focus Electrics products through our website:. Operating Precautions Steam Canning At A Glance Using Your Steam Canner Processing Times Cleaning Your Steam Canner Previous Page.

Next Page. Back to basics autoserve smoothie maker white model sr instruction manual 39 pages. Back to basics stainless steel stove-top popcorn popper instruction manual model pc 8 pages. Back to basics aluminum stove-top popcorn popper instruction manual 8 pages. Page 2: Operating Precautions They must be processed in a pressure canner, frozen or dried. Whether using a steam canner or water bath canner, processing times are the same. However, there are some definite differences not only in how they work, but in time and ease of use.

Is it recommended? I was notified of some great information on the Safety and Extension guidelines. Really… Read more here…. Really click on this link if you are concerned about the safety of steam canning. Read more here…. This point is short and sweet.

Unlike a water bath, a steam canner uses only approximately a quart and a half of water when processing jars of home-canned food. A water bath canner may require up to four gallons of water to fill up the canner and cover the jars. As a result home canning with steam is faster because heating a quart and a half of water obviously takes less time.

Jacqueline Says: I have had a steam canner for at least 35 years and would use no other. Mine is almost worn out from yearly use! It is very easy to use and, I feel it is safer than the hot water canner. I leave the lid on the canner for one hour after turning off the burner, then I remove the jars and put them on a folded tea towel. Then I put in the next load. I find if I boil the water at a med-high heat rather than high and leave the jars in the canner for an hour, they do not lose the liquid when the heated jars hit the cooler air.

Sharon adds: As long as the water is still boiling a low boil is fine. I now use cloth gloves with a rubber coating on them renovation and construction gloves by Horizon to take jars out of the canner or to hold jars I am filling with hot jam.

It works very well. No burning of the hands or slipping of the jars. These gloves are available at hardware stores. Started with a water bath canner, but a friend told me about the ease of steam canning so I bought one. I would definitely recommend it. But make sure you follow directions.

There are two little holes that steam escapes from and these need to be emitting about an 8 inch stream before starting the timer. When in doubt, follow directions! What I love is now that my family is grown, I am putting up smaller jars that always tilt on the rack in the old water bath canner. I was never sure if they would seal. I bought one with an altitude gauge on the top. Canning school members, click here to log in.

Steam canning is a process where you use a steam canner versus water bath or pressure. This page goes over the testing and shows that it is safe and effective. Stainless Steel Water Bath Canners are beautiful, long-lasting and best of all double as a Steam Canner and a large stock pot.

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One of my interests is to can tomato sauce and salsa…can that be done in a steam canner? If, however, you place on top of this wire rack a flat canning rack such as that used in the Presto pressure canners, you get a broader stable surface which allows you to place jars out more towards the edge without worrying about the jars leaning and interfering with your headspace and ultimately seal.

Note: the Bernardin ml and Golden Harvest pint regular mouth jars are in practice just a little bit larger by a few tablespoons than the equivalent US actual pint pint jars.

Generous space left between jars. Yes they also actually fit fine when the rack and jars are placed in the VKP steam canner pot itself — did photo on rack for illustrative purposes as too hard to do photo in pot. US pint jars arranged for water-bathing in the VKP steam canner. Note that while VKP says only 8 can fit, 9 even 10 to 11 depending on the jar brand metric vs US actually fit fine with loads of steam space between them still.

Note as well: we have found that if you are lucky enough to have any of the old-style tall US quart jars, you can fit 8 of those at a time in for steam canning. Victorio steam canner holding 8 tall US quart Mason jars.

VKP does not want you using their stainless-steel multi canner on an outdoor camp stove or propane burner. As the BTUs camp stoves put off are considerably greater than most kitchen stoves, it is possible for the heat to loosen the adhesive of clad bottom rendering it useless. Correspondence on file. This was apparently replaced by the start of with the flat perforated rack shown below after customer complaints about jars toppling over.

Flat steaming rack that comes with the VKP high-top aluminum model. And, it seems impervious to rust or discoloration.

For steam canning, you use the rack inverted, so that it actually acts as a stand to hold the jars just above the surface of the boiling water. In fact, really, all jars regardless of size do benefit from such a flat rack over the supplied wire rack.

If you already have a Presto pressure canner, as many home canners do, the flat rack from that works perfectly. Put the VKP wire steam rack upside down in the steam canner, then place the Presto flat rack on top of that.

The elevated wire rack keeps the jars out of the water, and fully exposed to the hot steam, while the flat, perforated canning rack stabilizes the jars and allows steam evenly through. A Presto canning rack fits in the VKP multi canner. VKP also makes and sells a similar flat perforated canning rack. Photo kindly supplied by VKP customer service. An inexpensive metal Chinese dumpling steamer rack can be used as a canning rack in a pinch.

Use inverted for added height. It is physically possible to stack some low-profile jars in a steam canner in a stable and secure manner. But, is it safe in processing terms to do so? We wrote to Wisconsin Extension, who were involved in the steam canning research, to ask if there were a research-based answer. The answer was that while double-decking in a steam canner was not tested, if you can ensure that you have a canner full of pure steam, then the principle should be the same as that for double-decking when pressure canning.

Email to Randal Oulton. Handily, the gauge on VKP canners lets you know with precision when you have reached a canner full of pure steam.

The handle of the lid is a gauge. It has three colour bands in it. You watch the coloured band for your altitude. When the needle of the gauge enters the green zone for your band, you start timing your processing. This indicates that you have reached relatively pure steam inside. Page 8. Do not lift the lid off while steam canning. If you do, you will lose your build-up of pure steam:. Do not remove lid during processing. Removing the lid allows the steam to escape and the jars will no longer be at the correct temperature.

If the lid is removed during processing you will need to bring the canner back up to heat and restart the processing time to ensure the jars processed correctly. Wait a minute, and you will see it fall back down out of the green zone. Wait for it to return to the green zone and give a true reading.