Making beef stew today, and husband opened the jars of beef stock for me and I poured them… then I saw the lids.
Should I toss out the stew?
There was no 'off smell' to the stock, and it was canned according to an approved pressure canning recipe last July
ETA: I wiped off the lids and it wasn't slimy, it was like ashy/powdery.
ETA #2: The jars had beef stock in them, not beef stew.
by Darwynnia
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Let me start by asking exactly what recipe you used and how the food was canned?
Did you use a different brand of lids? Did you boil them to get them ready for canning? Boiling is no longer recommended. Is this the first one you’ve opened of the batch (so you have no idea whether this is happening with the others)?