[Marcella]

I have a question about dehydrating food. After you dry it, how do you package it if you don't store it in the fridge or freezer? How do you package it and how long does it remain good? If dried foods won't last a year, I'm not doing it.

Canned food using the water bath method, will stay good at least a year, right?

I'm thinking about not having power. I've read a recipe for pickling most veggies, even pickling them together and using the water bath. If you didn't have power, you could use the water bath method and keep the pot boiling on any kind of emergency stove, but I don't think one could use the pressure canner without problems keeping the pressure regulated over some emergency type stove. DO YOU AGREE?

[ApplegateRanch]

I’ve known a LOT of people over my lifetime that have regularly & copiously pressure canned on a kitchen woodstove.

Silentgypsy is working on a “rocket stove’, (for which there are many youtube videos available) and may be able to address whether one would work for canning. Personally, I don’t see why not, as long as one was attentive to keeping it fueled.

Youtube also has other alternative, emergency stove how-to videos...if you really want to get caught up in yet another line of research. ;-’)

[Augie]

A banjo cooker or jet burner running on propane works really well for heating the pressure canner.