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This was prompted by a recent discussion that there are no tested recipes for raw packed potatoes. I was taught the same, until someone pointed out that the “Ball All New…” provides instruction for raw pack. It took quite a while for me to wrap my head around this, including a lengthy discussions with Ball and my extension center.
Here’s the catch…the recipe specifies 2 1/4 lbs of potatoes PER 2 quarts or 4 pints. So, now you have to get out your kitchen scale and calculator. You need to weigh out 1.12 lbs per quart or 0.56 lbs per pint, and that’s all that goes in the jar, topped with water, etc. Ball’s justification is that there’s fewer potatoes than what you would normally hot pack, so more convection heating.
In my opinion, this is incredibly lazy of Ball because it simply allows them to lump potatoes in the same section as all raw-packed vegetables. But you’re left to having to weigh before filling while trying to keep your jars warm.
Anyway…just wanted to prevent another raw-packed potato post from getting tagged as unsafe.
surfaholic15
Well now. My question (though I don’t eat potatoes), how is the quality of end product? Better texture than standard?
backtotheland76
My question is why can potatoes at all? I grow lots of potatoes and they keep just fine for months. Basically they’re already shelf stable LOL
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This was prompted by a recent discussion that there are no tested recipes for raw packed potatoes. I was taught the same, until someone pointed out that the “Ball All New…” provides instruction for raw pack. It took quite a while for me to wrap my head around this, including a lengthy discussions with Ball and my extension center.
Here’s the catch…the recipe specifies 2 1/4 lbs of potatoes PER 2 quarts or 4 pints. So, now you have to get out your kitchen scale and calculator. You need to weigh out 1.12 lbs per quart or 0.56 lbs per pint, and that’s all that goes in the jar, topped with water, etc. Ball’s justification is that there’s fewer potatoes than what you would normally hot pack, so more convection heating.
In my opinion, this is incredibly lazy of Ball because it simply allows them to lump potatoes in the same section as all raw-packed vegetables. But you’re left to having to weigh before filling while trying to keep your jars warm.
Anyway…just wanted to prevent another raw-packed potato post from getting tagged as unsafe.
Well now. My question (though I don’t eat potatoes), how is the quality of end product? Better texture than standard?
My question is why can potatoes at all? I grow lots of potatoes and they keep just fine for months. Basically they’re already shelf stable LOL