can you use your pressure canner on top of a woodstove?

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Any advice would be appreciated.

Regards,

Dan

-- dan (dbuchner@logistics.calibersys.com), June 18, 1999

Answers

Same as using it on a wick-type kerosene stove, you get to watch it carefully, and adjust the draft so that the temp under the canner is about right. You will want to have stoked the stove well before the weight starts to jiggle as then you will need to have about an hour and a half of regulatable burn time (if you are canning meat).

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), June 18, 1999.


Hello,

Because it can be difficult to regulate the heat you might want to keep something like an old grate off a gas stove burner to put under the pressure cooker if it gets too hot.

-- Kristi (securx@succeed.net), June 18, 1999.


Or what is called a flame-tamer, available at good kitchen stores, some camping stores, etc. Cooking on a wood stove is an art...if you are going to use all that fuel, keep a bunch of stuff going at the same time. Use the area over the firebox to bring to a boil, bring up to pressure,fry etc. Move the pot over when it comes up to pressure, so it is just jiggling slightly. Must be watched.

To fully use a wood stove one keeps a pot of bean soup simmering on the back, or a pot of white laundry, always a warm teakettle of water, bread rising on the very farthest away, hot water resevoir or big pot of wash water. Also dry mittens and hats, wood, and laundry. Usually a dog asleep behind the stove.

-- seraphima (seraphima@aol.com), June 18, 1999.


Don't forget yoghurt on the warming shelf.

-- malcolm drake (jumpoff@echoweb.net), June 18, 1999.

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