/johnny
The demonstration shows all the steps to sterilize. Then, I watched the one on canning tomatoes, from the very beginning to the finished jar, and that’s not difficult. The discussion yesterday on a regular thread about canning tomatoes is why I started looking at this and there was info. on our gardening thread about tomatoes and canning.
Just looked on Amazon and the #1 seller for a water bath canner is a dark porcelain one with the jar rack for $19.97.
If I follow the steps in the Ball book, plus I saw those demonstrations about how to sterilize, there shouldn’t be a problem.
Is there something in particular that bothers you about some step that allows for improper canning?