Canning Foods

FSM 350: It’s Important to Peel Tomatoes Before Canning

Transcript [Music] Welcome to Food Safety in a Minute. I’m Susie Craig.Crushed tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, tomato juice, whole tomatoes, tomato ketchup, and tomato paste. Find delicious, and most importantly safe, tested recipes for all things tomato at the National Center for Home Food Preservation, University of Georgia. The Center is easily found online.Did you know […]

FSM 185: Prevent Botulism: Use Tested, Researched Recipes and Directions

Episode Transcription From Washington State University Extension, this is Food Safety in a Minute. Inappropriate home-canning of low-acid foods such as corn, certain tomatoes, green beans, beets, potatoes, meats, and seafood may cause one of the most serious foodborne illnesses, botulism. Botulism is caused by Clostridium botulinum, where in anerobic/low or no oxygen conditions, a […]

FSM 184: Botulism Outbreaks in Home-Canned Food Products

Episode Transcription Welcome to Food Safety in a Minute. Today’s focus: Why botulism outbreaks are associated with incorrectly home-canned foods. There are certain home-canned products that are especially at risk. Those foods include asparagus, green beans, corn, beets, potatoes, meat, soups, garlic in oil, and smoked seafood. They have this in common: They are low […]

FSM 140: Safely Canning Fruit Pie Fillings

Episode Transcription This is Food Safety in a Minute from Washington State University Extension. Are you canning fruit pie fillings this summer? Explore a new, research-based publication written by Lizann Powers-Hammond. Use her tested recipes for home canned fruit fillings from peach to marionberry. The recipes found in this new publication produce high quality pie fillings […]

FSM 139: Canning at Home – What NOT to Do, Ever

Episode Transcription From Washington State University Extension, this is Food Safety in a Minute. If you’re canning this year, here’s what not to do, ever. For help, call the WSU Master Food Preservers at 509-574-1600. This is Food Safety in a Minute. Resources Lizann Powers-Hammond and M. Morris. Master Gardeners: It’s time for a home […]

FSM 136: Fruit Pie Fillings for Home Canning

Episode Transcription Welcome to Food Safety in a Minute. Would you like to preserve fruit pie fillings? Start your process by finding, then using a research-based, tested recipe. You can find tested recipes for canning blackberry, cherry, apple, peach, and blueberry pie fillings in a new Washington State University Extension publication. There are step by […]