5 Tips to Reduce Liquid Loss in Canning Jars

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Siphoning, or liquid loss after canning, is common among canning problems. Learn these 5 easy steps to help prevent it and the guidelines for safety (when is too much liquid loss unsafe). What you need to know about headspace, temps, and more in this canning Q&A episode. Snag resources and full blog post at https://melissaknorris.com/195 and sign up for Melissa's free online canning video series with pressure canning at https://melissaknorris.com/pressurecanning

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1:25.5	Welcome to episode number 195 of the Pioneering Today podcast.
1:38.8	Today we're going to be talking about siphoning and or liquid loss in your home canned food. This is a question that comes up quite a bit.
1:41.6	Not only do I get it asked online on all the different
1:44.5	platforms that I am on, but also from students who are inside the Pioneer
1:49.0	Today Academy and our Home Canning with Confidence e-course. So the terminology that we use explaining
1:56.4	this process is called siphoning and what that means in simple terms is when
2:01.2	you have liquid in a jar of food that you're canning and you
2:05.4	followed the proper head space meaning that you put in the food and or the liquid
2:11.5	depending on whatever it is you canning, if you're doing
2:13.7	fruit syrup or if you're doing even vegetables and then you are topping that off with your
2:19.0	liquid when you are doing your pressure canning, but you have got your liquid from the top of the jar,
2:25.2	and then it's that space between the actual top of the jar where you have the lid. That's what we call head space.
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