Today I have been canning - all day long. I started out with potatoes. We're canning potatoes because we have way too many to eat (without becoming human potato chips) and no really good place to store them. Potatoes require pressure canning, which I've always found a bit tedious. Who wants to spend all day keeping the little dial at exactly 10 lbs. pressure when there are more exciting things to do? Anyway - I got the canner going and sat down to read instructions for canning peaches (my next project for the day) and completely forgot about watching the canner. Well...the phone rang and I got up to answer it. As I did, I happened to glance over at the canner and it was over 20 lbs. pressure! It was in the DANGER zone (I've always wondered what would happen when a canner gets into the danger zone...would it blow up or what?) Well, I got it off the heat and thankfully the pressure dropped quickly back into the safe zone and my potatoes (and the house) were safe!
I am now processing peaches, which is a much more interesting project that does not require use of the pressure canner. Besides, peaches are much prettier in the jar than potatoes.
There is a moral to the story though - make sure when using a pressure canner to actually check the pressure and not assume it will regulate itself. It won't.
Gotta run - the peaches are just about done.
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