[CottonBall]

This is your ping to the All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics [a place to come sit on the porch and chat, an on going thread]

I’m doing a midweek ping because I have an emergency canning question. And I know somebody on our list has the answer! ( I decided to take advantage of being the keeper of the Ping list)

I just bought an All-American canner. I’ve been wanting one for years. I got a little one, a 915. (I rarely Double Stack but I do have arm issues so any less weight helps a lot.)

It wasn’t until I received it that I wondered about the Tattler Lids I use. Does anybody know if they are compatible? I don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t be but if I couldn’t use my tattlers I would return it. I love those things! But canners should all work similarly so….just wondering…

(oh and I see they’ve come out with disposable lids that use the separate ring too)

If you want off/on this list, just let me know.

[Rusty0604]

Thanks for the ping.

I know nothing about canning, sorry.

[DuncanWaring]

I would think that the Tattler lids would be oblivious to the type of canner they are processed in.

[Spunky]

Here is what I found.

“Can you use tattler lids in pressure canner?
Tattler lids are food-grade-plastic canning lids suitable for both water bath and pressure canning. They are reusable indefinitely as long as they are cared for. They are two pieces: the white food-grade-plastic (no BPA) lid and the rubber ring.”

I never got into canning because my mothers, mother, died of Botulism from canning when my mother was only nine months old.

I know things are way different now but the idea that it happened plus I was always fearful a pressure cooker would blow up on me.

[Iron Munro]

We have done quite a bit of canning, water bath and pressure.

We also have an All-American canner. but have never used Tattler lids.

Here are my thoughts -

If you have used Tattler Lids with success in a different pressure canner I don’t see why they wouldn’t work with the All American.

The lid doesn’t know if you are using a Mirro pressure canner or an All American.

And it shouldn’t matter because the basic operation of all pressure canners is the same - some just have different details.
They all bring the contents to a specific pressure, maintain it for the correct period of time and let it drop back to normal air pressure.

If I had concerns I would run a trial with one jar of water and a Tattler lid.

We ran a trial like that when we first got our All American canner just to familiarize ourselves with it.

[Jane Long]

Thx, CB....

I’ve never used the Tattler Lids.

Maybe do a sort of test? With something that won’t make a big mess...if it explodes?

[Ellendra]

Tattler lids should be fine with any type of canning, whether pressure or waterbath.

I will admit, the one time I used Tattler lids to pressure can something, the food tasted so strongly of rubber that it took days to get the taste out of my mouth! But that was almost 20 years ago, when Tattler lids were still very new, and I just happened to get a bad batch. They have made a lot of improvements since then. I have used them for jams and jellies with no problem whatsoever.

I keep trying to get up the nerve to try them in the pressure canner again, but haven’t done it yet. Jackie Clay, the self-reliance guru, has used them for years with no trouble at all.