The Home Canner Set

Create delicious, canned goods and preserve your hard-earned harvest from the comfort of your own kitchen with The Home Canner set. With this exclusive set, you receive the best-selling All New Ball Book of Canning & Preserving and one of our favorite tools to use in the kitchen—a high-quality 23-Quart Pressure Canner & Cooker!  The All New Ball Book of Canning & Preserving This modern handbook boasts more than 200 recipes ranging from jams and jellies to jerkies, pickles, salsas, and more. Organized by technique, The All New Ball Book of Canning and Preserving covers water bath and pressure canning, pickling, fermenting, freezing, dehydrating, and smoking. Straightforward instructions and step-by-step photos ensure success for beginners, while practiced home canners will find more advanced methods and inspiring ingredient twists. Tested for quality and safety, recipes range from much-loved classics—Tart Lemon Jelly, Tomato-Herb Jam, Ploughman's Pickles—to fresh flavors such as Asian Pear Kimchi, Smoked Maple-Juniper Bacon, and homemade Kombucha. Make the most of your preserves with delicious dishes, including Crab Cakes garnished with Eastern Shore Corn Relish and traditional Strawberry-Rhubarb Hand Pies. Special sidebars highlight seasonal fruits and vegetables, while handy charts cover processing times, temperatures, and recipe formulas for fast preparation. 23-Quart Pressure Canner & Cooker This 23-Quart Pressure Canner is designed for easy, confident home pressure canning. Also doubles as a boiling water canner for preserving fruits, jams, jellies, pickles, and salsa in half-pint and pint jars. Works on gas, electric, and smooth-top ranges. Deluxe pressure dial gauge registers precise processing pressures, which is especially important in high-altitude areas. A special air vent/cover lock allows pressure to build only when the cover is closed properly and prevents the cover from being opened until pressure is safely reduced. It also gives a visual indication of pressure inside the canner. Handy to use as a large-capacity pressure cooker for preparing meats, poultry, soups, desserts, and more. Made of durable heavy-gauge aluminum for long life and fast, even heating. Includes a cooking/canning rack and an easy-to-follow 80-page instruction/recipe book for canning and pressure cooking.  Features: The easy-to-read gauge automatically registers a complete range of processing pressures. The air vent/cover lock allows pressure to build up only when the cover is closed properly and prevents the cover from opening until pressure is safely reduced. Doubles as a water bath canner* for preserving fruits, jams, jellies, pickles, and salsas. Canners are constructed of extra-strong, warp-resistant aluminum and suitable for regular and smooth-top ranges. Includes cooking/canning rack and complete instruction and recipe book. Mason Jar Capacity: 26 Half-Pints, 20 Pints, 7 Quarts*. *Pints and half pints only for the water bath method 23-Quart liquid capacity (21.8 liters) Product dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 x 15.5 inches Note: This pressure canner is designed for use on 12,000 BTUs or less household range burners.