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How To Can Green Beans: The Illustrated Guide

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:25
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Canning green beansCanning green beans in all their varieties is one of the easiest pressure canning projects you can do.  Beans are a super-producer most gardening years, and canning them is one of the best ways to preserve them.  Once beans are ripe on the plant, they will continue to produce more beans if the ripe ones are picked regularly, which can lead to an abundance of green beans.  It’s definitely green bean season here, so here’s a little lesson on how to can green beans, courtesy of my mom.

What you’ll need:
Green beans or purple beans or wax beans or a mixture of these beans.
Pressure canner (Beans are a low acid food and cannot safely be canned in a water bath canner.  Not even if you process them for four hours.  You NEED a pressure canner.)
Jars and two piece caps (lid and ring)

Ready to get started?  Great.

1.  Get your beans.  You can purchase them from a store or farmer’s market if you aren’t growing your own.  If you have them in your garden, just get out there and pick some!  Today we’re working with some wax beans and some purple beans (they turn green when they are cooked).  I promise the process is exactly the same for canning green beans if they are actually green to start with!

Canning green beans

If you collect any stray cherry tomatoes with your beans, just eat them! :)

2.  Trim the ends.  It produces a better finished product if the ends of the beans are snapped off prior to canning.

Purple green beans

3.  Snap or cut them into bite sized pieces.  You can leave them whole if  you want.  Cutting them just makes them easier to eat.

Cutting beans

4.  Wash the beans.  This super handy expandable/collapsible colander belongs to my mom.  You can get one here.

Washing beans

5.  Heat your lids in a pot of water and get about 2 inches of water in the bottom of your pressure canner.

Getting ready to can

6.  Put the beans in jars, leaving 1 inch headspace.

canning beans

7.  Add salt if desired.  1 tsp per quart or 1/2 tsp per pint.

canning green beans

8.  Fill jars with hot water, leaving headspace.

canning beans

9.  Wipe jar rims and apply the lids and rings.

10.  Place the jars in the canner and turn the heat up.

Canning beans

11.  Place the lid on the canner and wait for steam to come out the vent pipe.  Once the steam is coming out, place the weighted rocker on the vent and process the beans at 10 lbs pressure (adjust pressure for your altitude).  Process pints 20 minutes, quarts 25 minutes.

Canning beans

Open vent pipe.

Vent pipe with weighted rocker on.

Vent pipe with weighted rocker on.

Once the jars are cool, label and date them.  Yummy, easy, home canned green beans!

And for those of you who are wondering, yes, this canning was done on a flat glass top electric stove.  When the canner was done processing, mom moved it off the burner area and let it all cool down.  Been canning on this stove for years this way she says.   Check your stove’s instructions or manufacturer’s directions if you’re planning to do your canning on a glass top stove.

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