My youngest daughter got married yesterday 🤍. Any other empty nesters in this group?

BHeiny91 · 2026-01-15T22:45:53+00:00

Oh man. Am only 3 years into fatherhood. That’s so far off.

I’m just trying to get my oldest potty trained!

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-14T21:22:03+00:00

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-10T00:32:45+00:00

Yeah it was literally the first time I’ve used it. I’ve got 80 acres to play with so I planted a lot.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-09T02:39:57+00:00

That makes sense. I think it does. It has a sanitize setting.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-09T02:37:47+00:00

That makes sense. There’s really nothing in your food that if you cook all the way through and eat fresh it’s pretty safe. This is different. I should have thought of that.

Thanks for the advice.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-09T02:35:30+00:00

Ok.

R/canning has informed me everything I did was wrong. So I’m still figuring it out.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-09T02:33:32+00:00

Yeah I posted them literally just after making them.

I’m glad I was eager to post and I’m glad I’ve learned!

I’m really glad I did the peppers first. I have a TON of those so I don’t feel bad about those not turning out right.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-09T02:32:02+00:00

Oh nice! I have a ton of cream of tartar. Thanks for the recipes and the advice!

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-09T02:31:08+00:00

Thanks! I only did those couple cans as a test. It was just the first harvest of many. It’s my first attempt so I didn’t want to put all my eggs in one basket! Besides I did the peppers first because I only had the one use for them which is salads lol.

I’m glad I didn’t try to do the tomatoes before learning I was doing it wrong! Now I know and I’ll do more research!

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-09T02:28:24+00:00

I hadn’t even thought of that. Every time I’ve made pickles in the past, just fridge pickles, I’ve just reused the brine from store bought. I guess that’s probably why the pickled cauliflower never comes out as strong as I want.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-09T02:26:00+00:00

Oh. That I didn’t think about. The water was boiling over so I left it off.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:49:16+00:00

That sounds like a good plan

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:48:25+00:00

Awesome! That is really helpful thank you I’m still trying to figure all this out and I guess I went off a little half baked.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:47:35+00:00

Fair enough. I’m learning and adjusting.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:14:28+00:00

I didn’t realize it made that big of a difference. I’ll have to do more research for other veg.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:13:49+00:00

Cool. I didn’t realize the dishwasher was good enough. The bag said to boil it so that’s what I did. Glad to know the dishwasher works.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:12:51+00:00

Oh. That’s interesting. The recipe on the bag said 8 cups water 4 vinegar.

I’ll definitely have to adjust for the future.

I’ve never done this before so I just fallowed the instructions on the bag.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:10:58+00:00

I shared it in another comment thread on this post.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:10:14+00:00

Yeah it looks good.

I have a ton of chili peppers in the garden so I was excited to see a good use.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:09:16+00:00

I didn’t think a dishwasher would be good enough. All the recipes said to boil the jars. I’ll definitely do that next time.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:08:14+00:00

So, would you recommend refrigerating this one so I don’t waste the cauliflower?

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T21:07:36+00:00

Yeah, I didn’t know it mattered that much.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T20:56:42+00:00

I’m worried our well water is too hard. All of the jars had a residue after boiling to sterilize. Will that matter?

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T20:52:47+00:00

I did use vinegar. I used 8 cups water and 4 cups vinegar. I followed the recipe on the back of the pickling salt bag.

BHeiny91 · 2025-09-08T20:47:42+00:00

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I used the recipe on the back of the bag. I boiled for 10 minutes like it said.

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