Thank goodness she left. Or maybe if she hadn’t left, she would have known it was dry? I don’t even know how to figure that out. I suppose if the pressure keeps going up and up. But then you have to be watching the pressure gauge.
I shouldn’t be thinking about this, now I’m not going to want to use my new canner
Make sure you put enough water in the pressure canner.
For all the years I pressure can, I only once had the water level get lower than I was comfortable with, and that was because I did more than one batch that day and didn’t add enough water for the second canner load. I probably add more water than I actually need, but do not ever want to run the risk of running out.