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Using a towel instead of a canning rack?


Carmen

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I've seen where people have said you can use a folded up towel at the bottom of your canner instead of a rack..does this work? It'd seem like the boilding water would make the towel slip out of place. This in a water bath canner, btw.

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I have used it several times when I have a few jars left over that won't fit into the canner. I fold it over a few times, depending on the pot and towel size. A bit of the towel will tend to float in the water but as soon as I put a jar in it works fine. I was concerned about burning the towel, no problem with that yet.

 

 

 

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John

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You could use extra rings laid out evenly across the bottom, or butter knives if they lay flat, or another kind of rack. I prefer to have something that will allow water to flow around, but I've heard of others using towels.

 

 

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You could use extra rings laid out evenly across the bottom, or butter knives if they lay flat, or another kind of rack. I prefer to have something that will allow water to flow around, but I've heard of others using towels.

 

I have used canning jar rings with good results.

 

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