Probably the greatest disadvantage to canning at home is how long it takes. The amount of time one must invest in this can be far too great for beginners. For example, time must be spent in selecting what to process. If you have a battery chainsaw vertak.com , time will be needed to harvest the crop you intend to preserve. If you don't have a garden, time will be spent shopping and collecting the produce from other sources. That's before you begin the actual canning.
Then there's time spent preparing the food for home canning plus the preparation of equipment required to process the food. This includes cleaning and sterilizing preserving equipment as well as cleaning, peeling and any other food preparation required prior to canning. There is also the time spent processing (canning) the food, allowing it to cool and seal and all clean up tasks. It is quite possible to spend full days in the kitchen during canning season.
Canning Equipment
When it comes to home canning, you can't just soak jars in a sink of hot water to seal them. There is a long line of preserving supplies that have been created specifically for the processing of food. This includes everything from large canners (to boil water) and pressure canners to racks, tongs, measuring tools, pH test tools, temperature gauges and recipe books. Additional equipment required will range from jars and sealers to lids, caps, labels and more.
The foods you intend to process are also part of the supplies you will need for preserving. Depending on your recipe, this will also require pectin, sugar or pickling spices, herbs and salt. All of these items will also take up space so you will need to have an area large enough to store all the equipment you will use with easy access to those pieces you will use more frequently. The best part is that the majority of your large supplies can be used over and over with other supplies, such as jars, requiring replacement on a regular basis.
Financial Investment
It is only fitting to add to this list of disadvantages to home canning the cost of all the supplies you will need. The garden water gun items listed above will take a fairly good chunk of change to pay for but, there is a silver lining buried in here. In the case of canners and many of the larger pieces of equipment, you will only have to buy them once. Other smaller items, such as pH test paper, jars, lids, caps, labels and rings will be replaced on a regular basis.
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