Extension Frequently Asked Questions
TOPIC: Food Storage
- All of the recipes I can find for canning green beans require a pressure canner. Is there a safe way to can green beans using a boiler canner?
- Are jars that have air bubbles in them after bottling, safe?
- Can I freeze pears as a way to store them. I freeze my peaches in wedges and use them for smoothies. Can I do the same for pears?
- Can I get my pressure cooker tested? When and where? Thanks for a great service! jh
- Can I store wheat, sugar, flour or other products purchased in 25 pound bags in a rubbermaid container? I am looking for space efficient ways to store bulk grains and legumes.
- Can I use bay leaves or nails in my wheat to protect from insects?
- Can powdered milk have a problem with mold?
- can sour cream be frozen?
- Can you tell me what the adult form is for the weevil that I find in my flour and pasta?
- Can you use canned food such as soups and vegetables past their use by date and if so how far past can you use them. How long does home canned fruits keep their nutional value?
- Do I need to treat water before storing it?
- Do weevil turn into moths? If not where would moths come from in my food storage room? and how do you get rid of them?
- Does my stored food still have any nutritional value?
- How do I keep insects out of stored grain?
- how do I store fruits and vegetables?
- How long can I keep stored foods?
- How long do I need to leave my spaghetti sauce in the boiling water bath for canning?
- How long does pectin keep if the box has not been opened?
- How much food should I store?
- How much water should I store?
- How to store fesh oranges to last as long as possible?
- I am trying to use flour that has been stores for about 30 years. It looks ok and tastes like flour but I have baked two loaves and they will not raise. they taste ok but how nutritional would they be?
- I bottled chicken yesterday and have a question. As I was preparing it to can, I was told by a neighbor that I should put chicken bouillon in each jar. So, I did that and then later another neighbor came over and worried that maybe that wasn't a safe thing to do. So, now of course I am worried. Will my chicken be ruined because I put bouillon in it? Also, how long with this chicken last? I read somewhere that it would last 6 months. Then I heard from another neighbor who cans chicken all the time that it would last much longer. Please advise. Thanks
- I canned chunky applesauce last night using a water bath (this is my first time doing this) and noticed large air bubbles after I removed the jars and realized I had forgotten to use a spatula to remove the air bubbles. So, I immediately opened them, removed the bubbles and re-processed them. But there were still small bubbles, so this morning (about 12 hours later) I opened them again and mashed the apple chunks smaller, added some apple juice, boiled the sauce and again re-processed them (with new lids this time). I still see some tiny air bubbles but this time some of the liquid also seeped out during processing. Is this batch of applesauce any good? Thanks for your advice and help.
- I canned cucumbers (not using a brine, but a recipe that completed within the day). They do not taste like they have enough dill. This was about a year ago. Can I open the pickled cucumbers and add more dill then reseal the jars? If so are there any points I should follow? Otherwise, are my pickles just ruined? Thanks
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