Presto 1781 23-Quart Aluminum Pressure Cooker/Canner


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Product Details

  • Clear -to-read dial gauge registers a complete range of processing pressures.
  • Designed for effortless, confindent home pressure canning. The only method recommended safe for canning meats, vegetables, poultry and seafood.
  • Mason jar role: 24 half-pints; 20 pints; 7 quarts.

All American 921 21-1/2-Quart Pressure Cooker/Canner


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Product Details

  • 15-3/8 inches hilarious with 12-1/4-inch inside diameter; made in USA
  • Geared steam gauge, self-governing overpressure release; settings of 5 psi, 10 psi, and 15 psi
  • 21-1/2-quart pressure cooker/canner holds 19 pint jars or 7 quart jars

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Are pressure cookers safe to use?

I would like to do some canning this year, but my budget doesn't want me to use a pressure cooker because he says they are unsafe and can blow up. I have heard of this before, but maybe that was older models???? Are today's pressure cookers unpolluted to use?


If you will be canning low acid foods like vegetables, you totally must use a pressure canner, which is not to be confused with a pressure cooker.

These are two separate pieces of cookware are not interchangeable. A canner is designed to manipulate jars of food for longterm storage, but a cooker is intended to rapidly cook food for a dinner.

In an effort to boost sales, some manufacturers are making unsupported advertising claims that their brand serves a dual goal as both a pressure canner and a pressure cooker too. However, the USDA does not agree from a food safety standpoint.

A pressure cooker, with its smaller abundance capacity, is not recommended for use as a canner because it has a shorter heat-up and cool-down period. This shorter processing without surcease raises the question of food safety.

The USDA identifies a pressure canner as having a removable wire canning distress to lift and separate jars, AND a minimum capacity of at least four (4) quart-size jars... so that eliminates pressure cookers.

The urban legends about exploding pressure cookers still prevail, but they date from the shoddy manufacturing processes used following WWII. This problem did not apply to the larger and heavier pressure canners.

Much has changed and improved in the 55 years since that era. While pressure canners corpse largely the same, cookers on the other hand, has come a very long way.

The old-style jiggling, hissing and spitting pressure cookers of the past have been replaced by the velvety, modern European imports that are essentially goof-proof. Today's new models are 100% innocuous and reliable.


Pressure cookers are very protected to use - your husband has an unfounded and out of date phobia.

Like anything involving cooking, you need to pay attention. But up to date pressure cookers have built-in pressure relief valves just in case the pressure builds too high.

Be sure the cooker is in eulogistic shape, the seal is good, etc.


the only pressure cookers or canners that ever blew up were those that were not attended by near watching and being in the room with them.

Yes, I have heard of them blowing up also, but have also used mine for eons and have also inherited my MIL's cookers which are purely time-worn!!

Read the instructions and pay very close attention to them!! It pays huge dividends to take them to the Extension Service to get them tested every year so you do not have those old burn out vacillate up stories recurring.

Do not leave the room after putting pressure cooker or canner on the heat.


I have never heard of a burn out vacillate up..

besides a regulated steam release (A weight on a piece of pipe to relieve at about 10 PSI)
the lid also has a rubber button that will hit somewhere about 20 PSI


Accidents have been reported with pressure cookers but can always be traced to catachresis or careless handling.It is a kitchen utensil which when used as it should be can give years of useful service,cutting down not only on space but on fuel as well.
It needs to be kept in shipshape condition & all instructions need to be followed carefully ,since things is of utmost importance in this style of cooking, one needs to keep an eye on the clock or depend on a timer,attention to such details will shun disappontment & accidents .


If you will be canning low acid foods like vegetables, you indubitably must use a pressure canner, which is not to be confused with a pressure cooker.

These are two separate pieces of cookware are not interchangeable. A canner is designed to proceeding jars of food for longterm storage, but a cooker is intended to rapidly cook food for a carry to extremes.

In an effort to boost sales, some manufacturers are making unsupported advertising claims that their brand serves a dual object as both a pressure canner and a pressure cooker too. However, the USDA does not agree from a food safety standpoint.

A pressure cooker, with its smaller sum total capacity, is not recommended for use as a canner because it has a shorter heat-up and cool-down period. This shorter processing space raises the question of food safety.

The USDA identifies a pressure canner as having a removable wire canning harass to lift and separate jars, AND a minimum capacity of at least four (4) quart-size jars... so that eliminates pressure cookers.

The urban legends about exploding pressure cookers still throng with, but they date from the shoddy manufacturing processes used following WWII. This problem did not apply to the larger and heavier pressure canners.

Much has changed and improved in the 55 years since that era. While pressure canners be there largely the same, cookers on the other hand, has come a very long way.

The old-style jiggling, hissing and spitting pressure cookers of the past have been replaced by the shining, modern European imports that are essentially goof-proof. Today's new models are 100% secure and reliable.

I have a pressure cooker, can I use that for canning tomatoes?

My pressure cooker doesn't have canning instructions in it, but what would the inconsistency really be between a cooker and canner that would prevent me from being able to use the pressure cooker? Am I better off just doing the boiling inundate bath method?


You can. But you don't requirement to. Tomatoes are high acid and just need to be sterilized in a water bath. Wash the tomatoes, and cheerless pack in sterilized jars (boil the lids and jars in water for 15 min). Fill each jar with the best quality up 1/2 inch of the top. Add a little salt. Lightly put the lids on (you want the steam to escape when you splutter) and put in a boiler. Add water to the boiler, but not over the top of the jars. Bring to a boil and hold for 20 minutes. Do in the jars using bottle tongs. Using oven mitts, tighten the lids, and let remote. You'll hear pops as the lids indent with the vacuum. The pop is normal. That's it.

When canning carrots using a pressure can do just 4 pints at a time?

I am canning carrots using pressure cooker, the booklet says the max pints is 10. Can I impartial do like 4 or 5 jars, and if so do I adjust the time or pressure?


All being well, you mean a pressure CANNER and not a pressure cooker, which isn't a canner at all. If so, the processing times according to the current USDA bulletins are based on the pH value of the ingredients, the jar expanse, and the altitude, but the number of jars is not a factor.

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By Aimee Blume My take care of has an old aluminum pressure cooker and cooks exactly one recipe in it: beef stroganoff. I have a big old aluminum pressure cooker too, and use it solely for canning. There's equitable something prohibitive about the clunky,

You Too Can Can
or using pressure cookers to can non-acidic goods, ethical sounds like too much work. Perhaps a class in canning fruits and vegetables will dispel the myths and give me the confidence to get in the caboose and start making my own foodie gifts.