• Wombo-Combo@lemmy.nilskrau.deOP
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    1 year ago

    I own a pressure cooker. Works the same as a pressure canner as far as I know, just isn’t as big. It isn’t as bad as you think. The first time I also was a bit nervous but it really is worth eating your own canned food.

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      1 year ago

      You can actually use a pressure cooker?! A lot of the things that I had read said that you could not (probably wanting to sell me some sponsored pressure canner or something). What you said makes sense though so I may have to give it a try! Thanks a lot!

      • Wombo-Combo@lemmy.nilskrau.deOP
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        1 year ago

        Yes, pressure cooker and pressure canner work the same. They use high pressure to reach higher temperatures - that higher temperature kills more bacteria.

        A pressure canner still might be useful, because most pressure cookers aren’t as big as the canners. I only use the cooker because I already had one way before I thought about canning stuff and because here in germany most canning still is done with hot water rather than in steam and therefore pressure canners are harder/more expensive to come by.