WormGuy

11 Quarts, 1 pint of tomato juice. John

Just took them out, I'm wore out & going to bed. John

Make that 28 quarts of chili today, last batch just went in. John

Don't blame yourself, my old eyes don't always read right. John

I'm looking at that recipe in the BBB and it says "Pints at 10 lbs., for 1 hour and 15 minutes, quarts at 10 lbs., for 1 hour 30 minutes in a steam pressure canner." This is from the 2009 edition. I'm afraid it is not processed correctly. John

14 quarts of chili...so far. Got another pot full ready when this load is done. If I can only hold out. John

Welcome Antik, good to have you join us. Please post some recipes, we can't have too many of them ya know. John

Awwwww, thank you Mother. Us worms love hugs! John

I've got it Mother from the beginning. The Prologue is 138 pages, the Bloopers is 351 pages, and the story is 1,110 pages. I copied the entire page which includes the posters info and signature line. These add a lot to the page count. This count is through today. John

Sorry you feel that way Oink, sometimes life gets in the way. Also, when the idea of people writing stories was started, there was no time limit or restrictions on when to post a story or when to finish it. Even well know and respected writers sometimes take many years to finish a story. Granted though they don't publish any of it until it's finished. John

I remember 3 years ago I did 60 jars of strawberry jam. I still have quite a bit of it left. John

Welcome! Good to have you join. John

Look at the upper left hand corner of the picture Quilty, it's a little blue thing. John

Works fine for me Michael, when I click the little magnifing glass it opens up a new page and I can then enlarge it. Have not tried to print it yet. John

Do they make an inflatable one that blower could be battery powered and recharged with solar? John

Fried cornbread is good. John

Welcome nini2323a, glad you joined up with us. If you are simply storing the grains and not processing them, you would use an oxygen absorber. You do not process grains in any form of canning when they are put up dry. John

It is the end that looks almost round. John

Here ya go buddy. John

Mea, all of the units on this site have the ability to use a hose to hool up o a jar. http://www.foodsaver.com/Category.aspx?id=...rt=0&page=0 John

Wifey told me I could only do 50 lbs. of tomatos today since I kinda over did it yeasterday. I started at 8:19 am washing and cutting. I ended up with 18 quarts and 1 pint of juice. I still have 25 pounds to do tomorrow. I may make sauce with them. It does feel good to rest. 7-20-09 I just finished the last 25 lbs. I made quartered tomatos out of them. They were not very good at all. If they were green/white on the outside, they were the same inside. I only got 7 quarts. When I was loading them in the canner I know I heard one crack. I'll wait until they are done to find out. Now to plan my next tomato trip. John

Store bought for .50 a can.

75 pounds of tomatos, 20 lbs. ground beef, 18 cans of chili beans, 8 onions, 8 bell peppers, unknown anount of chili powder, 38 jars, rings and lids, I'm pooped. The last load for the day is in now. It comes out at 8:00 pm. That makes for a 11 hour day. My back held up real well also. I think when this load come out, I may go to bed. John

Well we had a few glitches in our plans today. Wifey didn't get to go with me so I went hunting alone. I went to a place I had got tomatos two years ago and lucked out. They had four boxes of #2's for $10.00 a 25 lb. box. As we were loading them up I asked for a phone number to make sure they would have them available when I'm ready for more. It's a 100 mile round trip, but locally the same box's go for $20.00 and up. The lady there said, see that guy that just pulled up, he will have more in his truck. She went and asked him and he said yes. So I got a total of six boxes. I also got his phone number for my next trip and he said he would have them with no problem. About half of the tomatos are really ripe and the other half are not ripe enough to do anything with. I started trying to make quartered tomatos but found out they were too soft. So, I decided to make juice instead. I had cut up 1 1/4 boxes by this time so I got the juicer out and got ready. We got 8 quarts of juice and since I have 81 quarts of chili to make I have decided to turn all of this into juice for the chili. Kroger had their ground beef on sale, $5.99 for 5 lbs. and I bought 35 lbs. Wednesday. I made a batch yesterday and canned 9 quarts today while I was prepping the tomatos. So the plan is to take the frozen meat out tonight and get it thawing and can as much chili tomorrow as we can. My back did pretty well, I only had to take one muscle relaxer tonight. Tomorrow may be a different story. John

Well, I fizzled out when I got the peaches a few weeks ago. My back couldn't stand the strain of standing and peeling. I ended up giving 3 1/2 boxes away. At least someone got use out of them. Tomorrow wifey and I will go on the great tomato hunt. There is a nearby town that is noted for raising them. A co-worker lives near the town and said that due to the wet spring everyone got them out late and hopefully there should be plenty this weekend. We need 14 bushels do what we have planned, but we're only going to get six bushels this time. I can't take the risk of my back not holding up and losing them like the peaches. I made a large pot of chili today and will can that tomorrow while we are preping the tomato's. Hopefully I won't have too take too many drugs to keep going. John