I don’t always break the rules when canning, especially when it comes to pressure canning, but sometimes there are just no other options.
Such is the case when it comes to me, pressure canning, and using my glass top stove.
It wasn’t that I necessarily wanted to use my “highly recommended against” glass top stove, although it is certainly easier than any other option, but when it is all you have that works, what other option is there?
So I am a rebel, again.
Good news though. It works. I don’t know why it is recommended against, but using my glass top stove has proven to be the easiest, most fool-proof method of pressure canning than any other I have tried and as long as I have a glass top stove, it will be my go to heating choice. Check out my post at Simply Grateful Canning Pressure Canning on a Glass Top Stove for the complete story.
I’ve been working on canning beans all week and have two more days still to go. Then it’s out to the garden to get some spring crops started, and for this I am — Simply Grateful.
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I have used a pressure canner on a glass top too. I do prefer my gas range but I never really saw why you couldn’t use the glass top either. Glad it worked for you! Are you canning pints or quarts?
I’m doing quarts in my 24 quart canner and pints in the 12. So far I’ve done Great Northern, kidney, and pinto beans this week. Tomorrow it’s garbanzo and then navy and mixed beans. Hopefully this will be enough beans for at least six months. Summer canning is right around the corner…
I need a new pressure canner. Or at least a second one. I have been asking my hubby for a dehydrator for years and this Christmas I not only got one but also a second one from my daughter. Can’t wait for summer preserving!
I got a new dehydrator a couple years back, which was my second one, and love it. Use them all summer and even through the winter. I picked up my second pressure canner at an estate sale for $10 — a great deal, a couple years back. It seems that two of everything is a good thing all the time!
Wow! What a great find for you!
You are a sort of hero. I am terrified of canning. Just terrified.
I was scared of pressure canning for years, but now I’ve done so much of it it doesn’t bother me so much. Still in the back of my mind there is always that thought about the canner exploding even though I’ve never heard of anyone’s doing that.
A blogger told me it happened to her and caused a lot of damage. Plus I had it so beaten into my head as a kid how dangerous canning could be! I knew I wasn’t focused enough to handle it.
Wow! That’s scary. So far so good over here, but I am very careful when using the pressure canner.
Yes, take care of yourself!