BULK Canning 235 Jars in 2 Days | How I Make it Easy!

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I showed my husband your canning success. He looked at my five jars of salsa on the counter and wisely said nothing. That’s 35 years of marriage for you! Well done with the tomatoes.

My mom used to take me down into the cellar and show me all of the things she had canned each autumn . The jars glistened like jewels. She smiled and was so proud of her hard work. I swore I would never do any canning. After mom and dad passed my husband was able to salvage that shelving unit my dad had built to hold mom’s canned food. Guess who started canning 😊.

Amazing job Chelsea. Your calm, humor-filled videos are a delight. In my 78 years I had never canned anything until last year. My favorite homesteaders have given me courage I didn’t know I had. Now I’ve done a few jars and feel so productive. We’re never too old to learn something new. Thank you!

I canned 18 pints of chicken bone broth yesterday and felt very accomplished. Wish I’d known at age 20 what I know now would have been an added blessing. My mom always canned. I remember the tomato days. She was a champ of a mom. I miss her everyday.

The best part of canning is that first snow storm. My husband brags to his co workers about the food room in the basement. When they are rushing to leave work and stop for groceries, he just laughs. There response - what are you going to do? He says well it depends on my wife. We have everything we need in the basement. We have a freezer of meat and a room filled with veggies. We could have anything, soup stew, casserole. Steak, chops and baked potatoes, anything. We won't be eating pizza and fast food all weekend.

I ate a jar of canned greenbeans i found in my moms root cellar that was 39 yrs old & we ate them for supper! It made a believer out of me!

I thought I was the only one who has to get completely showered and tidied up before canning! It makes me much more productive and more efficient, I’ve found😊.

Here's my favored processing - buy another chest freezer. Cut the stem end off of big Roma tomatoes, double up all those bread sacks you keep - fill and lay flat in a chest freezer. Keep stacking. Take a sack out mid winter. Dump them in the sink . use the sprayer w/ hot water. The skins slide right off them I sauce them in the winter when we can use the stove heat in the house. 1,000 X less messy. And the saucing in the winter makes the house smell good. Or knock how many tomatoes you need for soups or chilis.

Just discovered your vlog. Although I am 80 years old and live by myself, I enjoy watching homemaking shows. Yours is the best…no proselytizing, no silly non essential nonsense, just good cooking, canning, and growing. Thank you. I can now discard shows I don’t really enjoy.

Can we all just step back and take a breath for a minute?!?! Girl you wear me out! No way I would even attempt what you did but you do inspire me to do more.

I learned from Becky at Acre Homestead that if you strain off some of the juice and jar it as your tomatoes are cooking down, you get two products for the time of one and your sauce gets thick more quickly! Definitely doing that next time!! Thin juice for cooking rice or making soup stock is awesome to have! Just can it too!

I canned for my first time ever about a week ago. I canned 5 jars of tomato sauce, 2 jars of pickled banana peppers and 3 jars of peach salsa. It was fun! You’re amazing for the amount of canning you can get done!

I am an avid canner going on 60 years now. I built a canning room with two stoves side by side so that I can can several pressure canners at the same time. My dream room lol.

I’m also thrilled to see the amazing GROWTH of your channel… I speak for us ALL when I say it’s WELL DESERVED 🙌🏼

While this is all common sense, very few people focus on preparing ourselves and the homes before canning. The less distracted we are by in the adjoining spaces, the more productive we are. This actually goes without saying on most projects but especially with canning. Thanks for reminding us of the importance of being well prepared in advance of canning day. This is a great lesson for new canners.

In Germany we usualy do waterbath canning goods in Weck-jars. According to the Weck canning book, which is literaly the Canning-bible does not require for any additional acid in tomato sauce or canned plain tomatos. This ist common sense since around 1900. To keep it extra Safe, you could just use a pH test strip.

I unfortunately learned the hard way to wear shoes while canning. I was branching tomatoes in a pot with a pasta strainer insert. When I quickly put that full strainer back in the boiling pot just wearing socks, it sloshed up and over the pot giving me a third degree burn on the top of my foot. Many many days and Dr. Visits later I was okay. Lesson learned!

I have canned tomatoes for fifty years now and I am tired for you. I never did more than sixty pounds at a time. You are an inspiration to so many. Thank you for sharing 😊

I have 16 pints of baked beans in my canner right now, I can’t imagine doing over 235 jars! You are very impressive, thanks for sharing all your knowledge!