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Extremely versatile, pressure canning is the only safe method of preserving low-acid foods

Can and store your favorite preservative-free recipes at once

Save time in the kitchen while preparing healthful recipes with all-natural ingredients.

Reduces cooking time by up to 70 percent. Fast cooking translates to less energy consumption.

Perfect for soups, vegetables, baby food and more

Home Canning is a healthy way to fill your pantry with home cooked, preservative-free recipes such as soups, vegetables, baby food and so much more. This all-in-one kit includes the tools, instructions and recipes necessary in order to begin pressure cooking and canning at home. Set Includes Duo 10 quart 18/10 stainless steel Pressure Cooker/Canner, Home Canning Cookbook with recipes, Pressure Cooking Booklet with recipes, Canning Rack, Funnel, Ladle, Jar Lifter, Jar Wrench, Bubble Freer, Magnetic Lid Lifter, Instructional DVD and User Manual.

  • Type: Pressure Canning Kit; Pressure Cooker
  • Color: Silver, black
  • Weight: 8 lb 9 oz
  • Made In: China
  • Warranty: 10-year
  • Dimensions: 18" x 11" x 11-1/2"
  • Composition: Stainless steel pan, lid, ladle, funnel; plastic handles, bubble freer, lid lifter; silicone coated jar wrench and jar lifter
  • Manufacturer: Fagor
  • Other versions: Fagor Home Canning Kit (without the Pressure Cooker)

Ambitions

Apparent goal: kids gift/registry home kitchens restaurants everywhere
Intended audience: novice advanced beginner good home cook gourmet professional
Diet/nutrition: does not apply scary empty promises helpful essential
Green?: not green saves energy mixed blessing earth friendly green!
Innovative: step back standing still progress trendy genius
Problem solving: no better baby steps solid steps giant steps a revelation
Competition: outclassed follower in the pack strong challenger likely champ

Utility/Quality

Ease of use: impossible frustrating learning curve simple child's play
Intuitive: Ph.D. required barely logical effortless brilliant
Instructions: missing incomprehensible adequate unnecessary excellent
Quality: cheesy questionable good years of service impressive
Parts to lose: inevitable some one-piece self-storing not a problem
Power source: none hands batteries outlet stove
Clean-up: nightmare wipe clean soap & water scouring pad dishwasher
Does it work?: not at all adequately well very well perfectly
Availability: airfare required online kitchen store department store supermarket

Packaging

Easy to open?: impossible maddening tolerable good opens itself
Green?: fills a landfill huge waste passable minimal waste impressive

Economy

Time saving: time wasting not really modest substantial huge
Labor saving: less efficient marginal a bit noticeable remarkable
Money saving: money wasted none $ $$ $$$
Beats the old way: worse no change better definitely entirely new
Where will it live?: garage/attic drawer cabinet countertop elsewhere

Summary

Fulfills ambitions: falls short almost there satisfies exceeds home run
How often used: once/twice ≥daily ≥weekly ≥monthly ≥yearly/holidays
Worth the space?: no does not apply w/unlimited space w/limited space absolutely
Need it?: a luxury discretionary basic equipment for serious cooks get it
Value: ouch! a little pricey worth splurging on the money a deal
Overall rating: skip it fair good very good excellent

Comments: If you are thinking about canning for the first time – if you weren't taught at the apron strings of Aunt Octavia – you may be delighted to pick up all the necessary equipment in one fell swoop. Fagor's 9-piece set includes a canning rack, stainless steel funnel, stainless steel ladle, jar lifter, jar wrench, bubble freer, magnetic lid lifter, home canning cookbook with recipes, pressure cooker booklet with recipes, instructional DVD, and its Duo 10-quart, 18/10 stainless steel pressure cooker/canner. You need only provide canning jars and lids, and the food that is to be canned for some cold winter night.

Some people are afraid/concerned/reluctant/etc. to venture into pressure canning (the necessary process for any food that is not particularly acidic), but it's not at all hard. True, you can only process 4 pints at a time, even though this is a good-sized pressure cooker. The standard water-bath canner can hold 7 quart jars. There are some pressure canners on the market that hold eight times as much as this, but they cost a fortune, require a separate shed for off-season storage, and need a soccer team to lift onto the stove (perhaps we exaggerate…).

The instructions, on DVD and in a couple of cookbooks, give you all the information you need to get going in pressure canning, and although it's a bit of a production, it's also a little bit addictive; once you've "put up" your first jars of salsa or corn, you may not want to stop.

If you don't already have a pressure cooker (and we think you should), this set includes an excellent model – large capacity, heavy stainless steel over an aluminum core, two pressure settings, three safety mechanisms, cooks on any surface (including induction), a helper handle opposite the main handle, and like any pressure cooker, it saves up to 70% of the cooking time and consumes less energy. The pot part may be cleaned in a dishwasher. The lid must be cleaned by hand, and the gasket in the lid wants to be lubricated with vegetable oil after each use.

If you're going to can modest amounts of food now and then, and especially if you don't already have a modern pressure cooker, this set would be an excellent choice. If you're just contemplating hot-water canning or do have a large pressure cooker, you may be perfectly happy with the more economical Fagor Home Canning Kit.