Dry canning homestead survival

Preserving potatoes by pressure canning makes them shelf stable so they last a long time on your food storage shelves. Visit for tips on choosing the best potatoes for canning, and learn how to pressure can potatoes with this safe canning recipe and tutorial.

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.

How to vacuum seal almost any jar in your kitchen. Several methods that will safely preserve dry foods for long-term food storage.

You can preserve low moisture foods with the dry canning method. Learn more about how to dry can food with these tips.

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.

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…

Long before refrigerators, people stored their food using time-tested methods like larders, root cellars, canning, drying, and smoking.

Canning problems and solutions for siphoning (aka liquid loss in home canned food). Do you follow your canning recipes down to the letter, but your jars still seem to lose liquid after processing? If so,

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…

The hardest work of the gardening season is over, and you’re bringing in your potato harvest. Or maybe you've visited your local farmers' market and got a little carried away buying farm fresh potatoes. Nights