Learning resources for home canning

The Ball Blue Book is one of the two main books in the accepted American canon of home canning (the other being the USDA Complete Guide.) About the Ball Blue Book The Ball Blue Book provides recipes and procedures for water bathed home preserves, ...

Ball has been issuing a home canning book since 1909, starting with the Ball Blue Book. It has been a trusted private-sector name for the latest home canning guidance ever since. It's important to note that while you may cherish older editions...

Bernardin is the authoritative name in home canning in Canada. The company publishes (as of 2015) three home canning recipe books: Bernardin Guide to Home Preserving (latest edition 2013); Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving (latest...

Canadian Living is a magazine and book publishing company in Canada. Their test kitchen, The Canadian Living Test Kitchen, has for several decades now provided people with home canning recipes. Their most recent book is "The Canadian Living Complete...

This is a list of electronic bulletins that you can subscribe to for home canning news. The list is a mixture of private and public sector. If you know of other mailing lists / bulletins dedicated to safe canning, please let us know so they can...

It's important to keep up with developments in the world of home canning. Length of years in home canning does not equal being a good canner by today's standards if you have not kept up with the developments. Old-time canners can be allergic...

At the end of every summer, or whenever there's a health incident related to home canning, someone in media with little experience in the field draws the short straw and gets assigned to do a story about home canning. The resulting stories usually...

Many of the salsa recipes in the All New Ball Book (2016) call for fresh lime juice. There has been some questions over whether this is safe, because for many people it represents a departure from known practice: most home canning recipes calling ...

People get so serious about home canning at times that they can forget to laugh. Thing is, just as there are cold hard facts, and just as we debate over some of them, there's also a whole raft of absurdities that are just a part of canning life! Here's...

Dr Gerald Darwin Kuhn (1931-2011)  led the team that authored the first ever USDA Complete Guide in 1988. He was a pioneer in the 1970s and 1980s in establishing the USDA's modern approach to research-based home canning. He led a team that w...

Starting Cautionary Note Do not assume the content of any of these historical canning guides reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices. In fact, assume the opposite. Do not follow recipes or guidelines - they are riddled with...

Master Food Preserver is a certification that people can earn designating that they have undergone and passed training and courses in modern, up-to-date methods of food preservation. These people are advanced canners, qualified to give advice and...

The National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) is a publicly-funded center for research and education on home food preservation. It has at least two roles: conduct and coordinate research to further develop knowledge in the field;...

There are now many online opportunities to learn about safe home canning. Some are free, some have a nominal fee. To the best of our knowledge, all these courses are available to anyone, no matter where they reside in the world. Links last verified...

The recipe sites are listed by country. One of the great things about the Internet is that country restrictions don't apply when it comes to access to great canning resources; they are available to all, wherever you are. The recipe sites listed...

"Putting Food By" (aka PFB) is a home-canning book first published in 1973, and currently (as of 2017) in its fifth revision. Owing to our mandate to adhere strictly to USDA-based guidelines, we haven't placed it on our core recommended list of...

  What is a reputable source for safe, quality home canning recipes and practices can depend on who you ask, and what hat they have on at the time. Some people, such as Master Food Preservers, are only allowed to recommend a very small...

    Public Sector Sources for Home Canning Information USDA Complete Guide The primary resource in the public sector for home canning information is the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision . It is available in: ...

Canning supplies in Canada The largest brand of home canning supplies in Canada is Bernardin, which sells jars, lids, and accessories. The second largest brand of jars in Canada is "Golden Harvest." The jars come with lids, but no replacement lids...

  Australia and New Zealand have joint official guidelines for safe food handling, but only for commercial: nothing for  homes.  [ref] Safe Food Australia: A Guide to the Food Safety Standards." Australia New Zealand Food Authority. 2nd E...

  Australia and New Zealand have joint official guidelines for safe food handling, but only for commercial: nothing for homes.  [ref] "Safe Food Australia: A Guide to the Food Safety Standards ." Australia New Zealand Food Authority. 2nd ...

In the UK, past habit has been to simply practice "bottling" as opposed to "canning." The realization of a need for a canning process of the filled jars is slowly taking hold. We have a separate page on this topic:  The old British method of ...

  Livre de recettes Le grand livre des conserves Bernardin Edition francaise du Ball / Bernardin "Complete Book of Home Preserving." L'édition la plus récente semble être mai 2013.   Site web pour produit et avis Site we...

"So Easy to Preserve" is one of the best, if not the best, canning books out there today. If there is a bible of home canning, this is it. First published in 1984, it has been updated regularly over the years. As of 2016, the most recent edition...

So Easy to Preserve (SETP) is a home food preservation book released by the Cooperative Extension at the University of Georgia. It is considered one of the two top-most authoritative books in the field of home canning; the other being the USDA...

The USDA Guide to Home Canning is considered the Bible of home canning. It has been called "the most widely recognized source of validated processes for home food canning." [ref]Nummer, B.A. et al. Current Food Safety Issues of Home-prepared Vegetables ...

  In the home canning world, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) plays a dominant role. In fact, most home canning authorities would describe it as "the center". All reputable sources of home canning recipes and directions...

The USDA in the past has sometimes seemed very subtle in what it "approved" and "didn't approve" of. Granted, all the recipes in its "Complete Guide" are of course things it "approves of." But they don't even use those words, "approve" and "disapprove." In...

Here are the changes we noted in the USDA Complete Guide between 2009 and 2015. This comparison is just for curiosity purposes only, to see if we could spot any major critical changes to draw to people's attentions. We used PDF comparison software...

There's been a lot happening in home canning in the past few years. Here's a recap of some major events in home canning in the past few decades. Did you miss anything? Links are provided for each so you can catch up, as needed. You'll want ...