[Marmolade]

“I was given one of those, it does not have a fan,”

Maybe I will have to start out with dehydrating some food.
We do have a dehydrator hubby bought many years back. It doesn’t have a fan and is a small, round one with several trays. He tried making jerky in it and it turned out OK.

I got a call this morning from the canning jar couple, saying they had a firm offer for their jars and if I wasn’t willing to match that then they would sell it to the other person. So, I didn’t get the jars after all. The price they were asking was about equal to new jars and I would have to buy rings and lids as they said some of theirs were rusty. I’d rather just buy them new at that point.

I did pick a bunch of strawberries this morning, but I won’t have to worry about jam or dried since they will be long gone by tomorrow.

[metmom]

I wouldn’t pay almost full price for used canning jars either, especially if you had to buy the bands and lids.

[DelaWhere]

>>>The price they were asking was about equal to new jars and I would have to buy rings and lids<<<

Smart move not to buy them.

>>>I did pick a bunch of strawberries this morning, but I won’t have to worry about jam or dried since they will be long gone by tomorrow.<<<

LOL that is a problem around here too. Christi eats 3 puts 1 in basket - eats 3..... If she gets a pint in her basket, she has eaten a quart and a half...

[CottonBall]

The price they were asking was about equal to new jars and I would have to buy rings and lids as they said some of theirs were rusty. I’d rather just buy them new at that point.

No kidding. Was there anything special about these jars that would make someone pay more for them than new ones?

My canning from yesterday had one failure. It was really weird. All the ham and ground beef turned out fine - inspite of the fact that it was all pretty greasy stuff. There was some grease on the outside of the jars and floating on the water, which made me worry about the seals. But they were all ok! However, the chicken that I did after that had one failure. It was pretty obvious - the water in the jar was about an inch lower than when I put it in the canner, plus the lid never did get sucked down and pinged when pushed. Kinda funny it was a chicken jar, though. We ate it tonight - I wanted to test the quality of the chicken anyway!

It was a little dry. I'll listen to DW next time and not the Blue Ball book or the book that came with the Presto canner! Both books said to cook the chicken until there was just a little pink left in the centers, while DW said to cook meats about halfway. That's what I'm doing next time!