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When I was 16, my mom and grandma were teaching me how to can. We were working on canning jars of purple beets in a pressure canner. The next round of jars were in, the canner sealed. However, one of the jars did not hold. It exploded and caused the lid to blow off theContinue reading “The great purple beet explosion of 1984”

Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. I was learning how to can and learned the hard way that a pressure canner and hot water bath canning are not the same. I had the jars of beets in the canner and apparently something was not sealed correctly, the top of the canner blewContinue reading “I see purple beets everywhere”