Dry canning

One of the items I can and then use the most is potatoes. I was always buying potatoes, because you never know when you want to cook them, and then letting them go bad. There is nothing worse than finding rotten potatoes in your pantry! Now I buy bags of potatoes on sale and then

Dry canning (aka oven canning) is not a safe nor approved method of food preservation for your pantry staple items and dry foods...and here are the many reasons why.

By Stephanie Dayle - I originally wrote this article for the The American Preppers Network and have now brought it over to my own site with updated information. The easiest, cheapest and fastest way to dry can food is to use oxygen absorbers. This technique is nearly fool-proof, and requires no electricity, fancy equipment, and it does not expose your dry food to heat. The true beauty to this technique is that you can break the seal on a jar, use some of the contents, close it up with the…

How to pressure can dried beans in canning jars so they are shelf stable.

When you buy dry stores in bulk (oats, lentils, barley, beans), you are sometimes left with storage problems: creepy-crawlies in your oats...or no room in your freezer. Black beans, brown lentils, oats, red lentils I read an article a while back in Countryside Magazine (Sept/Oct 2011?) that described dry canning - and I couldn't believe how easy it was! Basically, this is what I do: Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F. Take clean, dry quart or half-gallon canning jars and fill them with…

What dry oven canning is, whether it's safer than traditional canning, which foods you can and cannot dry can, and a whole lot more.

What is dry canning? Is it safe? Learn more in this video from SimplyCanning! #SimplyCanning! #drycanning

The method of Dry Packing is merely eliminating the instructional step of covering the food ingredient with water and raw packing the food dry

Use these delicious dry packed carrots to compliment any meal or create a meal from scratch. Use these beauties in stir-fries, soups and stews, one-pot meals, as a side dish and so much more. Because they retain their shape when dry packed, they work wonderfully in casseroles, when baking and roasting with other root crops.

Usually when you're canning dry beans, you let them soak overnight. With this method, you can skip that prep and get right to the canning!