Ball FreshTech Auto Canner Review: Pack a Peck of Perfect Pickles

Ball FreshTech Auto Canner Review: Pack a Peck of Perfect Pickles

For as deliciously rewarding as canning your own fruits and vegetables can be, the actual canning process isn’t all candied rainbows and Martha Stewart smiles; it involves a fair amount of hard work. But why should you do the heavy lifting when this new automated canning system from Ball can do it for you?

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The Basics of Home Canning and Pickling

The Basics of Home Canning and Pickling

Winter is coming and you’d better be prepared. The delectably sweet fruits and vegetables in season right now will be shriveled husks rotting in your crisper drawer by the time the snows come. That is, unless you preserve or pickle them. Here’s how to put the fruits of your home garden’s labors into delicious stasis.

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How Canned Food Conquered the World—And How It Almost Didn’t

The BBC has a wonderful dive into the history of canning, tracing its origins from a technology designed to help expand and sustain the British Empire, to a miracle commodity of modern capitalism. And it almost failed before it ever got going. More »