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Pressure canning meat.
A lot depends on what cut, and what you intend to do with it. Tough cuts benefit from wet pack. You want to use a liquid that has no salt (or very little) because canning intensifies the saltiness, -
Pressure canning meat.
I can on my grill to avoid overloading the house. The secret to making canned food taste "real" is being able to doctor it when you use it. You'd be surprised how many chefs used canned spaghetti sauce., and every pizza you have ever eaten had canned sauce on it. if you can BBQ, try not to... -
Pressure canning meat.
Incorrect, and that thinking has killed a lot of people. The boiling point of liquid under pressure is higher than the boiling point of that liquid in the atmosphere. That's the whole principal of car cooling systems.. The boiling point depends on the pressure, the more pressure, the high... -
Pressure canning meat.
I've canned venison for years. Single, pint jar is just right, ready to go for anything. no waiting around like with frozen. I don't get too fancy, just stew meat or ground, dress it up when I'm ready to use it. Canning spices can get tricky, same with meat and tomatoes. Also, have dry... -
Anyone feeling the need to put up food more the usual?
Firehouse Subs sells their pickle buckets as a fund raiser, don't know if they come with tops or not. -
Anyone feeling the need to put up food more the usual?
Started hoarding cash a year ago. Figured with enough cash, I can get TP or ammo. -
Anyone feeling the need to put up food more the usual?
On the news last night - shortage of small turkeys because folks aren't having big Thanksgivings. If your store has an onsite butcher, you can get them to cut a big turkey in two. I do that all that time, and Food Save them. Plus on a big turkey the meat to bone ratio is higher. The... -
Water pump.
Why manual? Windmills and a tank have been used for hundreds of years, free, renewable, - I'm not sure about how practical a human powered pump would be for creating a 125 head for any usable amount of time. -
Anyone feeling the need to put up food more the usual?
Look up "dry canning" on you tube. What I've been doing. Sent me a signal when all the grocery stores ran out of rice and beans at the start of the Covid panic. There was no food supply shortage, what were people thinking. Dry canning is simple and fool proof. -
Best deal on bulk rice and beans
Firehouse Subs has a program for selling the buckets for a nominal fee. Unfortunately our Firehouse went out of business. -
Best deal on bulk rice and beans
I'm not big on far out Chem scares, but I'm not sure I would want to store food long term in plastic soft drink bottles. Just me, haven't looked up the science on it, -
Best deal on bulk rice and beans
Hsven't thought of that, but makes sense. Same reason it's advised to not dry can nuts and oil bearing seeds like sunflower or soybeans. -
Best deal on bulk rice and beans
My local Kroger has been out of beans and rice for months, except for the prepared stuff. Was out of pasta for a long time, but it's coming back. Aldi has rice, but limits sales. I should check some other stores. i use to scoff at the "poor people" who shopped at Dollar General, then I went... -
Best deal on bulk rice and beans
Dekalb Farmers Market used to have 25 lbs bags of beans and rice. Don't know the current situation. Plenty of YouTubes about dry canning beans, rice, pasta in quart or gallon jars, which to me is a more efficient way of storing them. Also kills any vermin in the product, which beans in... -
Planting Potatoes
You can grow potatoes in leaves or straw. If you use a container or tires, they come out perfectly clean. Plant them, then keep on piling on the leaves or straw as the plants grow. Heavy feeders so keep the fertilizer coming. Little late to be planting them though, bugs will get them -
Salt Curing Meat
it has a different density than coarser salt. Table salt and kosher/rock salt are not interchangeable volume for volume. if you want to use table salt you need to invest in a kitchen scale, which you should do any way. If you use table salt and don't correct for it, whatever you are curing... -
Salt Curing Meat
What you want is "pink curing salt" which goes by various names depending on vendor. They all usually have "#2" in the name. Then you mix it with ordinary salt to cure the meat. Most people use Kosher salt, I've even used livestock salt. Avoid table salt. Get a good set of instructions on the... -
Natural Gas Flow during extended Power Outage
Sort of off topic, but there used to be expandable natural gas tanks in Atlanta. Interesting to watch them go up and down. I don't know if they still have those online anywhere, but they probably could keep the pressure up a long time. -
What food can be stored in a get home bag.
This. I'd be more concerned about adequate water than food. As we all know from Naked and Afraid, you can go a long time without food, not so much without water. I'd bone up on my Euell Gibbons and be prepared to forage. I didn't have stuff in a bug out bag, but I did carry some stuff around... -
Edible Mushrooms?
I've eaten the false chanterelles. No problems, but not much flavor, and as the video notes,wateryl