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UK Home Preserving & Bottling Supplies and Related Items
Whether you are preserving, bottling /(a.k.a., canning) for your first time or in your 50th year of canning; all the supplies you need are here, and at the best prices you'll find anywhere! Scroll down this page for photos, descriptions, prices and ordering information.
Everything can be shipped by a variety of methods, including overnight, if you have a bottling/canning emergency!
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Below on this page are water bath canners. See this page for pressure canners. Also see Canners for glass top stoves, if you have a glass or ceramic stove
For other supplies:
- Jar Lids, Rings, etc.
- Preserving jars
- Books on canning, freezing, drying, preserving and jam making
- Pectin for making jams, jellies and preserves
- Strainers, pit removers, seed-skin-stem removers, jelly strainers, etc. All types, makes and prices (from £19 to £350)
- Vacuum Foodsealers for freezing, dried foods, and refrigerated foods - the FoodSaver line
- Food dehydrators - easy and fast to dry your own fruits, veggies, sun-dried tomatoes, etc.
- Pickling supplies, equipment, crocks and additives
- And just for fun, the history of the canning jar
You can read a discussion about why foods should be processed in a canner on this page" "Why do I need a canner?"
For more information, and NO obligation to buy, just click on the links in the boxes on the left!
Preserving / Pickling / Jam Jars
By far, the best preserving jars are those with the 2-piece ring and lid system, commonly called Mason jars, or the NEWER version of the Kilner jars. You will see FAR less spoilage with these, they are very, very reliable. Forget about using paraffin, that went out in the 1940's with anyone who knows squat about home food preservation.
Replacement lids and rings for jars and misc supplies and tools
Water Bath Bottling Equipment
This will allow you to preserve / bottle any acidic foods, including jams, jellies, applesauce, apple butter, tomato products, like tomato sauce, tomatoes, marinara, spaghetti sauce, etc, and acidified foods like pickles, salsas, BBQ sauce. ketchup, etc.
Be sure to get the steel McSunley one if you have an induction cooker.
You can also reduce costs by buying a very large pot, (diameter 36 cm / 14") and also a rack to lift the jars in and out. It is identical to a "canner" and can be used for other cooking needs. See the pot below.
Pressure Cooker / Canners
If you want to can low-acid foods such as red meats, sea food, poultry, milk, and all fresh vegetables with the exception of most tomatoes, you will need a pressure canner. These foods fit into the low acid group since they have an acidity, or pH level, of 4.6 or greater. The temperature which must be reached and maintained (for a specified amount of time) to kill the bacteria is 240 F. Pressure canning is the only canning method recommended safe by the U.S.D.A. for low-acid foods such as vegetables, meats, and fish. Ordinary water bath canners can only reach 212 F and can not to kill the types of bacteria that will grow in low acid foods. This temperature can be reached only by creating steam under pressure as achieved in quality pressure canners.
There are several manufacturers of pressure canners.
If you're new to pressure canning, see this page for a complete description of how pressure canners work, why they're better, and step-by-step directions on how to use one!
And if you lost the instruction manual for your canner, click here for free downloads of many canner's instruction manuals!
Pressure Cookers that can preserve food in jars
You can preserve almost anything with a pressure cooker: acidic, low acid and non-acidic foods, like sweet corn, beetroot, etc. Obviously, the larger ones can handle more jars at once. For example, the 22 cm cookers can handle 3 jars at one time, but the larger models can handle up to 14 (stacked). The key is, can your stovetop handle the size of the canner? For example, the 22 Litre Hawkins Big Boy on the far right below can only be used on gas hobs.