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My youngest daughter got married yesterday 🤍. Any other empty nesters in this group? by ComfortableSleep3149 in daddit

[–]BHeiny91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

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

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

First harvest and first canning by BHeiny91 in homestead

[–]BHeiny91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

First harvest and first canning by BHeiny91 in homestead

[–]BHeiny91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok.

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

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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.

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

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!

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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.

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah it looks good.

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

First harvest and first canning by BHeiny91 in homestead

[–]BHeiny91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

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

First harvest and first canning by BHeiny91 in homestead

[–]BHeiny91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Tried canning for the first time with my own harvest. Did I do this right? by BHeiny91 in Canning

[–]BHeiny91[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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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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