Reddit reviews Presto Cooking/Canning Rack for Pressure Canner
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Keeps food out of the cooking liquid when cookingPrevents intermingling of flavors during cookingKeeps jars off the bottom of the unit while canningGenuine replacement Presto partKeeps food out of the cooking liquid when cookingPrevents intermingling of flavors during cookingKeeps jars off the bottom of the unit while canning11 Inch Diameter Pressure Canner Rack, Genuine replacement Presto part
Glass cooktops are different than electric or gas for canning.
First thing, check your user manual and see if your cooktop is safe for canning on. Some aren't. I have a Jenn Air, which is (at least the model I have is.
Second, if you are able to can on your cooktop, you likely HAVE to use a Presto canner. Presto is the only one with a smaller-diameter disc on the bottom. On glass tops at least, you can't have more than an inch of the pot overhanging the burner on each side. All Americans are too big.
Prestos come in 16 and 23 qt. It's a toss up on which one to get; the 23 seems big for a beginner canner, but if you really get into it then a 16 will become to small and you'll be wanting the 23 too. I have both. :D
Third, which ever canner you get, if it has a dial gauge and a mushroom-looking weight regulator, get a three piece weight regulator to replace the mushroom-looking one. Dial regulators have to be re-calibrated every year (and sometimes out of the box), and you need to stay within sight of the canner to make sure it doesn't drop below pressure. The three piece you can hear rock (unless your house is really big) and makes it so much easier. Each section is worth 5 lb of pressure.
Fourth, if you get the 23 quart, get another rack so you can stack pint jars and do big canning runs.
Good luck!
You can double stack them, but you need some sort of separator, and they need to be offset so that the jars on the top layer are resting on top of two jars below rather than stacked directly on top of one another.
It's a canning rack for a pressure cooker. Here is one on Amazon
It depends on your canner. The 23 quart is capable IF you buy this it should be noted that it's PINT only.
I have the same canner which I use on a glass top stove. In addition to the accessories others have mentioned, I would also get her a second canning rack which makes stacking a second layer of jars much more stable.
> you shouldn't have heat on while grain is in the pot. You can scorch the grain and there's no recovering from that.
I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there, Bob. While it certainly varies from setup to setup, I have a tri-ply pot and an easily cleanable aluminum canning tray to keep the grains off the bottom of the pot. No scorched grains, no burnt flavors.