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Offline charles p

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Canning today
« on: July 26, 2010, 11:11:01 AM »
Got 22 lbs of yellowfin tuna loins from a friend in the seafood business.  Got 70 lbs three weeks ago.  Put the pressure canner canner on a turkey frier stand and the propane is turned down as low as I can get it.  Making 15 lbs of pressure - only need 10 lbs.  It takes a pound of tuna to make a pint, so I'll make 22 pints today.   

Working in the sunshine and no wind today.  Having a heat wave in NC.  Three weeks ago when I ran three canners in one day, it was windy and I had to build a shield to put around the burner legs to hold in the heat.

Glad all that heat is not inside the house.  My AC is glad also.
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Re: Canning today
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2010, 01:28:58 AM »
I have gotten to the point of doing the most of my canning on my turkey fryer.I can sit on the swing under the shade tree a short distance from the process and enjoy a cool one.
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Re: Canning today
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2010, 01:55:19 AM »
What seasonings do you use and does the fish taste like any processed product that I might be familiar with? eddiegjr
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Re: Canning today
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2010, 05:23:21 PM »
  Over the years, i've canned hundreds and hundreds of pounds of salmon that i have caught.  I always put in a heaping tsp of yellow mustard and a pinch of salt in with it.

  When i open the cans, or jars (depending on which one i've canned it in)  i use it as i would canned tuna, and it's quite good...  I've done it many different ways though, it's all in what YOU like.

  DM

  BTW, you can put a castiron trivit on a turkey frier, under the p. cooker, to lower the temp a bit...
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Re: Canning today
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2010, 05:49:02 PM »
Sounds good, The only protein that I eat more of than canned fish, sardines, jack mackrel, tuna, etcetera, atcetera, etcetera, is chicken. I'm going to have to try it. eddie
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Re: Canning today
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2010, 01:36:54 PM »
The  method used on Hatteras Island where I live is as follows:

Pack approximately 1 lb of tuna in a pint jar.  Nothing else.  Can under 15lbs of pressure for an hour and 45 minutes.  Very mild taste.  I can't see where some salt would hurt a bit.

I once traded a Coast Guard officer a case of our tuna for a case of his wife's canned salmon.  He was from Oregon. 
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