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Off-Grid Canning Techniques
Canning is a valuable skill because it’s completely low-tech. If you have a way to boil water, you have a way to preserve food.
Learning to use the two different types of canning methods, water bath canning and pressure canning, and familiarizing yourself with those techniques, means that you will have a different comfort level when attempting them over an open fire in the back yard, for instance.
THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE CANNING POT
Consider some different ways that you might be able to bring a large pot of water to a boil. If you are lucky enough to have a woodstove with a flat surface in your home, you will easily be able to can your harvest. However, in the middle of summer, when harvests are coming in, a blazing fire inside your home is likely to make the environment nearly unbearable.
Another option is to construct an outdoor fireplace. The grill or cooking surface must be sturdy enough to hold a heavy pot full of water and at least half a dozen jars full of food or a disaster of broken glass and ruined food could occur.
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