How much water in canner?

[suzann]

I have a 22 quart pressure canner weighted.

sea level is like around 100ft.

I am doing chicken soup for the first time at 10 pound pressure for 90 minutes for quarts..

How much water do I put in the canner?

[suzann]

silly me..Two pages of my instruction book were stuck together...couldn't find the amount anywhere although I know I read it before...thought I was going looney for a minute...

[PoGo]

LOL. Homemade and canned chicken soup is very good!

[Violet]

You always use 2-3 inches of water in a pressure canner. Some manuals don't provide that, but in quarts. I find their quarts is not normally enough. I am giving you USDA guidelines.

I use 3 inches.

[Cricket]

I have a Presto canner, and found that the fill line does not allow for enough water. Since I have been using the recommened three inches (before jars go in) I have much better results, especially with maintaining even pressure.

 

This is my scientific method for determining the water depth: I put the rack in, and fill it until it is deep enough to be up to my knuckles if my index finger nail tip is just touching the bottom of the canner through one of the rack openings.

[ScrubbieLady]

The instructions with my Presto said to put in 3 qts of boiling water. The friend that me help so I wouldn't be afraid of mine said to put in enough water so that it goes up about halfway on the bottom layer of jars.

 

I can't see my fill line but the 3 qts worked when I canned green beans on Saturday. I still had about an inch of water in the canner when it was reopened.