CS-007: Canning 101 | Introduction to the Basics of Home Canning & Food Preservation

Welcome to Canning 101, your introduction to the wonderful world of safe home canning and food preservation!  In response to listener requests, I put this series of shows together to help both the novice and veteran learn how to can and preserve food safely in the home environment. This series of shows is based entirely on information and expertise provided by the USDA, the National Center for Food Preservation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this series you will learn about:

* How home canning works,

* The nutrition and economics of home canning,

* An introduction to botulism and how to avoid it and other methods of food poisoning, and,

* The equipment and how you do things safely.

Along the way you will learn all kinds of tips and tricks to help you do it better, safer, and more fun for you and your family.

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The following is the full transcript for this episode —

This is the Canning Season Podcast with John Gavin, episode #7.  Get out your pencils and your lunch boxes.  You’re back in school.  It’s Canning 101.

Welcome to the Canning Season Podcast.  This is the show that’s dedicated to helping you get the most out of the home canning and food preservation lifestyle.  In this community, it’s all about celebrating and sharing the abundance.  To lead the way, here’s your host, an avid home canner himself, John Gavin.

Hey, everybody.  I’m John Gavin and I’d like to welcome you to Canning 101.  This is a series that I’m putting together to introduce you to the basics of safe home canning and food preservation.  I’m doing this because I keep hearing requests from people and I keep hearing feedback from people of how excited they are to start out at canning, how they want to try they just don’t know how, and it’s daunting, it’s scary, it’s intimidating.

You know what, I don’t mind that it’s daunting, scary and intimidating because there are some things in home canning that can be dangerous if you don’t do it well.  However, once you learn the basic principles home canning is amazingly easy in so many ways.  People have been doing it for years and years and years – decades.

So many of the reasons people come to home canning is because they helped Grandma in the kitchen, they like controlling the ingredients that go into their food, they like saving money, and they like the community and sharing aspect – the social aspect – which is of course where the tagline for the Canning Season Podcast came from, celebrating and sharing the abundance.

Anyway, I got these requests and people keep asking and I get them.  What I wanted to do was put together a series for you that introduces you to safe home canning and food preservation.

* What I will get into with you is I will explain to you how canning works.

* I’ll talk about the nutrition and economics of canning.

* I will talk about keeping it safe.