Am I getting old or what? I’ve been thinking about water bath canning since autumn when my mom made all the tomatoes on pickled cucumbers for us at her home… and was tired as hell! 
I didn’t have a pot big enough… And I considered buying one, but then I realize that my stove top with two small electric burners isn’t big enough to put a big water bath canning pot!
I made my kitchen and changed the stove top from two small electric to five gas burners and I thought it’s time for water bath canning at my house this autumn.
After googling and looking for big enough pot for canning I discovered WECK electric canner and I guess I will go with that! My five burner stove top isn’t big enough. If I put a big pot in the middle, I can’t put anything else on other four burners.
So, WECK it is! Now I need to look for good offer cause already in love with those WECK jars!
Ilze
I think few people here in the UK now ‘can’ (or ‘bottle’) things for winter though quite a few – mainly the older generation – still do preserve fruit, either in syrup or as jam. A few people probably make ‘pickled onions’, though you do not need a big pot for those, and chutneys.
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yes… we are more active 🙂 I need big pot for cucumbers and tomatoes. Cause those you need to “cook” in jars in hot water! And you can get mad if only 3 jars fit in pot… and canning goes 20 minutes… and you want to make 30 jars for winter… well… it will take a week 😀
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I’ve canned for years and find so much satisfaction in opening a jar of my own tomatoes in the dead of winter and smelling that intense summer tomato fragrance. Good luck on your search.
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Thank you! I guess I will start this autumn, cause there are opportunity to buy cheap, local, organic tomatoes and cucumbers! Also, I might grow something this year, since we won’t travel far this year 🙂
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My daughter cans Dilly Beans each year. I’ll see if she will share the recipe. They are delicious with a sandwich and even better with a bloody Mary
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🙂 NICE!!!! That would be something new to me!
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Cannot wait to see what you are going to make. My mom was a canner, I am not. I buy canned jams, jellies, and pickles.
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I make jams and jellies for years, but I want to make something like pickled cucumbers.
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Sounds great! I have never tried canning .
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Really!? That is something my mom does every year. Not as posh as I want, but still! She’s just having big pot and simple jars 🙂
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It could be that living in a warmer climate we have access to a wide variety of fresh produce all year.
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Sorry I didn’t think of that! But yes! You are right! That might be the reason!
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It would be hard to imagine when you look out of your window and everything is covered with snow! Of course it is the opposite for me!
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Did you know that we are living in the house that belong to family that lives in Australia :)?
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Yes. I do recall you did mention that a while ago. Have you met them?
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Yes! Actually they lived with Janis parents while renovated this house, then got back to Australia and will return one day…
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It is nice to know the owners. Hopefully they will not be back for some time!
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We are living here for almost 4 years… And still don’t know when it will end 🙂
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