Canning
the cooktop only.
NOT USE LARGE DIAMETER
Pots
inch
the surface unit
CANNERS OR OTHER
DIAMETER POTS
not recommended
most surface cooking.
FOR FRYING OR BOILING FOODS OTHER
when cunning
or pressure
WATER. Most
or sauce
canner.
may be
This is
and
Frying—cook temperatures much
boiling water temperatures
higher than boiling
Such temperatures could
pressure)
harmful to the cooktop surl’aces
eventually harm the ass cook top
surrounding
Units.
observe the Following Points
in Canning
sure the canner-
of
3.
unit.
your
or its location
not
canner to
centered on
surface unit,
for good canning results.
Flat-bottomed
be
not use
canners
or rippled bottoms (often
in enamelware) because they don’t make
contact with the surface units and take
canning,
recipe\
and
from
recipes
procedures
are
of
manufacturers
jars
canning.
1
and
State\ Department
Remember that canning is a process that
01’
To
burns
too
boil
or heat, careful when canning.
house has
voltage, canning may
than expected, even though directions
followed. The process time will
shortened by:
using a pressure canner, and
(2) starting with HOT
water for fastest
Flat-bottomed canners are required for glass cooktops.
quantities
w
CA II
Since ou must make sure to process the canning
canning requires that harmful
jars for the prescribed time,
no interruption
organisms are destroyed and that the
are
processing time, you cannot can on any of
sealed completely. When canning foods in
the cooktop surface units if
canner is not
canner,
steady boil must
flat enough.
be maintained f’or the’ required time.
canning foods in a pressure canner, the pressure
must
maintained for the required time.
After
the controls, it is
important
make
the prescribed
or pressure
maintained for the
required time.
l’he cooktop surface units
temperature
limiters that prevent the
cooktop
getting
too hot. the bottom of’ your canner is not flat, the
unit
triggering the
temperature limiters
10
turn the unit off f’or a time.
This
stop the
or reduce the pressure in
the canner.
a Temperature Limiter?
7
unit
a
Limiter.
Temperature
protects
i surface
too hot.
The
may turn off’ the
it’:
The pan boils dry.
. The pan bottom is not
The pan is
center.
*
no
on the unit.
