[HN Gopher] National Center for Home Food Preservation
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National Center for Home Food Preservation
Author : Jugurtha
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-10-23 01:33 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (nchfp.uga.edu)
(TXT) w3m dump (nchfp.uga.edu)
| MandieD wrote:
| This site is a great resource not only for canners, but anyone
| storing food... which should be pretty much anyone. The tips for
| dry food are important if you don't want moths.
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| Side benefit of deposit jars for yogurt in Germany: basically
| free canning jars for jam, especially great for ones I'm giving
| away.
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| I do a stress test before getting underway by putting washed jars
| in the sink, then submerging them in boiling water. I leave them
| like that until the water is no longer scalding. In a decade of
| canning, I've only had one jar that cracked after filling, and
| less than one per batch that fails to seal (could safely be
| eaten, just needed to be refrigerated and used right away)
| Paul_S wrote:
| I have wasted an obscene amount of food trying to preserve it.
| This is the kind of skill that used to be learned at home when
| you were a kid but as I was growing up this was only passed onto
| daughters - us boys were taught different skills and my wife grew
| up in the city. Trying to learn this from books is terrible. Most
| of the time I call up my mom to teach me over a video call but
| some things are easier taught in person, especially ones that
| require manual manipulation of things.
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| I worry that enormous amount of nuance is lost when transmitting
| skills through written down form instead of in person.
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