Pressure Canned 12 quarts of homemade chili (Pics)

[JackF]

I figured I'd take some pics to share.

I recently bought a 23 quart Presto pressure canner and I did my first pressure canning. I whipped up a giant batch of my chili and ended up canning 12 quarts....worked out pretty well.

This is just a portion of the almost 4 gallons of chili I made.

My brand spanking new 23 quart pressure canner

Hot packing the chili...quart #1

The canner holds 7 quart jars at a time.

Pressure going up.....15 lbs made my canner talk.

First 7 quarts done

All 12 quarts done....ran out of jars so we're eating the rest of the chili this weekend!

 

[BamaGoose]

The sound of the pressure cooker scares the hades out of me. My grandma used to can a lot of green tomatoes, peppers and chow chow. I wish I could do that but it is scary and time consuming.

 

[JackF]

The sound of the pressure cooker scares the hades out of me. My grandma used to can a lot of green tomatoes, peppers and chow chow. I wish I could do that but it is scary and time consuming.

This canner I have is built like a tank, seems very secure when locked down. The noise isn't too bad, just the constant rattling of the weight when it reaches pressure.

It is time consuming, took about 4 hours or so to do all 12 quarts.....most of that cooking time.

 

[BAMAFAN IN NY]

chili recipe??

 

[JackF]

chili recipe??

Pretty simple. For this huge batch I made, I used about 2 gallons of tomatoes, 5 lbs of ground beef, 3 lbs of ground breakfast sausage, 6 cans of chili beans, 4 large green pepper and 4 yellow onions. I went the easy route and used 4 packets of premade chilio seasoning mix.

 

[TommyMac]

Looks mighty tasty.

Anyone else like rice with their chili?

 

[Tidefan7887]

I don't know to much about canning... With the chili containing meat, how long will it last? Sounds neat, though.