Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related

[kyle]

Surg interesting. I wonder if thats the tops that @DennyO uses. Have you used them before surg?

[cdavis]

Tex_77 still haven’t found a recipe for bloody Mary mix but canned 36 quarts of spicy V8 and a 3 pint trial run of rotel. It took 60lbs of tomatoes.

[cdavis]

Tex_77 we couldn’t find ball lids so had to use another kind. Do you know what caused this during the hot water bath. 7 out of the 36 did this.

[Denny O]

kyle
My nipples look to be a little taller. I don’s know if his has the clear glass disks, mine are laid on top of the folded full leafs.
But anyway here is a pic of mine at work.

[johnsbrewhouse]

cdavis over-pressure. The pressure didn’t bleed off through the seal. Were the bands to tight?

[Denny O]

cdavis
Charlie, I’ve never seen that before.
Not sealing, yes
Boiling some out of the jar, yes
Just not that.

[cdavis]

johnsbrewhouse my wife said they were not. But I think they must have been. She does alot of canning and this is the first time it’s happened to her. She blamed the new lids.

[cdavis]

@dennyo she said it’s never happened to her.

[Denny O]

Did the lids seem to be a lighter material thickness?

[johnsbrewhouse]

cdavis Those lids might be thinner too if they are made offshore

[cdavis]

@dennyo by the way your kraut is looking really good .

[Denny O]

Thanks Charlie!
What all is in your V8?

[cdavis]

johnsbrewhouse she said all she get shipped from China. Go figure.

[Denny O]

A couple of years ago I tried a copy cat V8 that was rather high rated and I thought it s—ed.

[Tex_77]

cdavis canning tomatoes has all most got me ready to pull up my plants. Thank goodness the end is in site.

[cdavis]

@dennyo I’d have to see her recipe to get it all. But I helped her cut up beets carrots cucumbers jalapeños bell peppers celery and tomatoes. I’m not sure what else went in but this is the 5th year she’s made it and I like it better than the real spicy V8.

[cdavis]

Tex_77 I bet my wife wishes I would pull mine up. The plants look rough but still producing like crazy. But it’ll end before too long. Then I’ll have to talk her into green tomato relish.

[kyle]

cdavis I wonder if its a combo of cheaply made lids and not enough head space left in the jar.

[Denny O]

Gotta believe that with the number of years of canning that Mrs Davis has under her belt, it has to be plainly the lids.

[cdavis]

@dennyo just so my meals keep coming I agreed with her that it was the lids. These lids are much thinner than ball lids and they just look cheap. I think maybe the rings needed to be a little loser.