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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Canning the Catch

This weekend Zeb and I successfully used Tony's pressure canner.  I took a class on Thursday night offered at the college on canning meat safely.  We thawed out some salmon, halibut, moose, caribou, and sheep.  We were successful!  I takes awhile.  You need time to get the jars ready, get the meat in the jars, get the canner hot, then it needs to sustain 10 pounds of pressure for between 75-90 minutes depending on what meat you are canning.  Phew!  Long process, I got a little ADHD and decided to use my new stair stepper, that I recently purchased on Nome Announce, Nome's version of craigslist, while we were canning.  It helped to pass the time.  Zeb was the trooper and stayed by to watch the canner and make sure the pressure was right.  Now we have meat ready to go, anytime, anywhere.  Maybe we will be able to bring home some meat for people to try.  

2 comments:

Amy&AndyinAlaska said...

Wanna trade something for something?! That all sounds delish! see you soon.

löki gale said...

Ha! I remember staying up late into the night canning fish! It is definitely a process.

If you have too much, don't hesitate to send a couple cans my way :)

lgt