Water Bath Canning 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Water bath canning is the easiest way to can food. There’s no specialized equipment needed, and it’s a simple way to preserve harvests. Melissa Norris of Pioneering Today Academy outlines all the particulars, tips, and tricks of this food preservation method here! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3UqiPiQ Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/492PO1c Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3OuHHSu EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3HM6r58 Connect With Melissa Norris: Melissa K. Norris helps hundreds of thousands of people each month raise their own food and create a homemade and homegrown kitchen, home, garden and barnyard through her website, popular Pioneering Today Podcast, the Pioneering Today Academy and her books. She is a co-founder of the Modern Homesteading Conference as well as owner of Norris Farmstead. Melissa is a 5th generation homesteader and lives with her husband and two kids in their own little house in the big woods in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains. Pioneering Today Academy Everything Worth Preserving book Blog YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My friends this is the week to learn about preserving something that I've delved into and every
0:18.7	method we're going to talk about this week I have done but I haven't done it at the level of today's guest a three-peat
0:25.5	Melissa Norris of Modern homesteading of many different things. I mean I feel like you have a lot of stuff
0:33.7	always going on, Melissa, so it's great to have you back.
0:36.1	Yeah, hey, thanks.
0:37.3	I'm always love to talk gardening and food preservation,
0:40.6	all the things, always a pleasure pleasure so super excited yeah so you've got the everything
0:46.7	worth preserving book out and you've done a ton of stuff on your site and your
0:51.0	channels but I figured why not just take us through every day, let's just look at a different method and kind of go
0:58.2	101 to a little bit more in-depth and starting out with probably the most classic of all time which would be water bath.
1:05.6	Yeah so water bath canning is what most people think of when they think of canning, like especially memories back, like maybe mom, maybe
1:15.6	grandma, maybe great grandma where there's a big old pot boiling water on the stove and you're putting
1:20.0	your jars in that boiling water when the food's in there goes through a
1:23.6	processing time and then you're pulling them out. So it's one of the it's the
1:28.1	easiest method of entry when it comes to canning simply because you don't have to buy a pressure canter and truly
1:35.0	to water bath can you don't even have to buy a water bath canter as long as you have a pot that is
1:40.4	deep enough that when the jar that's full of whatever it is your water bath
1:44.8	and usually jam or pickles is in the water with the lid and the band on fully
1:49.1	submerged the level of the water is at least one inch over the top of the jars and that you've got
1:54.3	something in the bottom that's lifting the jars up off the very bottom of the pot.
1:57.9	So if you buy a water bath canner, they come with racks, you can buy racks.
2:02.5	But if you're just using a big pot, especially for things like jam and
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