A deep-dive into what a pressure canner is and what makes a good one.
Oh, goodie, more timers and more watching! This time, I timed how long it took the canners to reduce pressure after I turned the heat off.
It was easiest to determine the amount of pressure in the canners with both dial and weighted gauges. Weight-only canners did their jobs, but required a little more attention. With the weighted-gauge-only canners, there is a safety pin that pops up and makes it impossible to twist the lid. When that pin drops down, it’s safe to remove the gauge to release the last gasps of steam, then twist the lid off.
Out of all of the canners, I found that placing the lid on the Presto Electric was most intuitive. While all of them had an arrow or notch to show the correct alignment, the Presto Electric had marks for both locked and unlocked positions, in white print on a black lid. The Mirro had a red safety pin that was easy to see, so it was easy to tell whether it was up or down. It came with a set of three different weights that spun when it was up to pressure.
The Presto lid was easy to align and a video on Presto’s site made it easy to see how the weighted gauge was supposed to move, so I could adjust the heat properly.Throughout testing, the first priority was ensuring all the canners functioned as required for safe food storage. They also had good reviews from online buyers, which was part of the reason they ended up in my kitchen.
The Presto Electric Canner has a digital display that I found easy to understand and easy to use, although it was quite different from all of the others. It works much like today's popular multi-cookers, like the Instant Pot, monitoring and regulating the internal pressure and temperature so you don't have to.
When it came to all of the timing, there were sometimes wide variations, but those could largely be explained by variations in the size of the canners, the thickness of the pots, and their overall size. While none of the timing tests made me worry about whether the food was safe, the responsiveness of the Granite Ware cooker and its need for higher heat may make it more vulnerable to user error.
When it comes to loading and unloading jars, two of the canners were just a little different. The Mirro and T-fal canners are tall, to accommodate a second layer of pint jars, up to a total of 16, but they can only handle a single layer of quarts. They included two identical racks so that one rack can sit on the bottom of the canner for the first layer of pint jars and the second rack can sit on top of those jars and hold a second layer of pints.
Besides the awkwardness of lifting all the jars at once with the basket, the basket’s wires are set rather far apart and I sometimes had trouble placing jars so they wouldn’t fall in-between and tilt. Lastly, after a lot of canning, some rust began to show on the rack. While that won’t affect canning, it could eventually affect the integrity of the rack. In the end, the basket bumped this canner from the top spots.All American Pressure Canner 10.
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