Water Bath Canner

[Evergreen]

After the discussion where many of you 'in the know' pressure can your tomatoes- do any of you use a water bath canner much? If so for what? TIA

[Jeepers]

I was just thinking about that the other night! I used to do my tomatoes and spaghetti sauce in the WB but I haven't done that in years. I suppose the only thing I would WB now are pickles and jelly. You can do both of those in a pressure canner...with or without pressure. In other words, you can use your pressure canner like a WB canner. Just so there is enough water covering the top of your jars.

 

Right now the only thing I use my WB canner for is making large batches of veggie soup and spaghetti sauce to be canned in the pressure canner.

 

If I was going to advise someone I cared about, I'd tell them to save up their money and buy a pressure canner because you can do everything with it. Not so much with a WB canner.

[Darlene]

Jellies, jams, fruits, pie fillings, pickles, salsas.