Sounds like a typical project for me, either have too much or not enough of whatever. Hope it turns out good for you.
After my trip to Oregon, my freezer was pretty full of tuna and salmon. We canned quite a bit out there, but I could only bring back a couple of jars in my suitcase due to possibility of breakage. I decided I wanted to can what I had so I found out Strmwalker had a canner he wanted to sell so I picked it up from him on my way to Secession last Friday.
I took a 4 hour class Tuesday at our Clemson(ugh) Extension service on canning so today I took my first shot at it.
The first thing I learned is always have plenty of jars on hand. According to the info I read, a 1/2 pint jar takes about 1 lb. of fish. That sounded high but what do I know? So I had 8.5 lbs. of Tuna and a case of12 jars so I took out a couple of Salmon fillets to fill out the case. It became apparent as I got near the end of the jars I did not have enough jars so a quick trip around the corner to the store netted me a 2nd case.
When I finally finished packing all the jars I had 23 half pints to can and they easily fit in the canner.
I did the processing in the garage, believe me you don't want to do this in the kitchen or your wife will have you sleeping in the dog house for a while until the smell goes away. Fish, remember!!!!!
So everything seemed to go by the book and the jars all look go so I will try some shortly.
Mark 1:17 ...I will make you fishers of men
Sounds like a typical project for me, either have too much or not enough of whatever. Hope it turns out good for you.
GO BIG ORANGE !
I meant to behave, but there were just way too many other options available at the time.
Ray it is great to know that Clemson has a place down your way for when y'all need to know how to do something the right way, a USC fan help center!!!! LOL
The cans looks good and you did get a lot of them out of the fillets you had. Can't say I have ever had canned fish before.
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Ronnie, you never had a tuna fish sammich or salmon patties both made with canned fish?? These are the same thing, just in a jar instead of a can.
Mark 1:17 ...I will make you fishers of men
I would venture to say home canned fish are better for you cause Lord only knows what all's in those store bought cans..........
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