Home canning
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Home canning or bottling, also known colloquially as putting up or processing, is the process of preserving foods, in particular, fruits, vegetables, and meats, by packing them into glass jars and the
Preserved food in Mason jars
A 1914 advertisement for a combination steam canner and roaster. The described method will not protect against botulism.
Green beans in a pressure canner ready to be processed
Weck glass with rubber seal and steel tension clips. The red tongue pointing downwards indicates a correct seal
Canning
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Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container. Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although under spec
Home canning
…kill the organisms that would create spoilage. Though ceramic and glass containers had been used for storage for thousands of years, the technique of canning, which involves applying heat for preservation, was only invented in the first decade of the 1800s. Before that, food storage containers were used for…
Industrial canning machines used for mass-producing canned salmon in 1917
A canning jar used by Nicolas Appert's canning factory
The Berthold-Weiss Factory, one of the first large canned food factories in Csepel, Budapest (1885)
A cannery worker filling cans of tuna in Long Beach, California, United States, c. 1930