Step-by-step instructions for canning tomatoes in a soup pot or pressure cooker.
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Step-by-step tutorial for canning tomatoes
Serious Mealtimes / Vicky Wasik
Preserved tomatoes are a pantry staple but you don’t have to buy them at the grocery store; you can pickle them yourself. The benefits are easy to see: cost savings control over flavor and ingredients and of course the joy of eating your own locally grown tomatoes long after the garden is done producing. Even store-bought cans of San Marzanos run nearly $4 a gallon at the grocery store so growing and canning your own makes sense.
The key to canning tomatoes safely is to first ensure that they are at a safe acidity level and then process them at the proper temperature and for the proper amount of time. This recipe is designed to work with a boiling water bath (i.e. a large pot filled with boiling water) or a specialized pressure cooker for the safe long-term preservation of ripe whole summer tomatoes.
