I’m all for the idea of learning from books and online articles. Canning how-to’s are great, especially when published or sanctioned by trusted sources. In fact, when in conversation with someone about a food preservation question, my first response to ...
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The Food Preservation Method The Rest Of The World Uses
Most people are familiar with fermented foods in the form of alcoholic beverages, like beer and wine. Humans, though, have been experimenting with fermenting food for preservation and flavor enhancement for millennia, and yeast-based ferments that produce alcohol are only ...
Read More »10 Clever Food Preservation Tricks You Likely Won’t Find On YouTube
There is no doubt that the world wide web contains a wealth of information. How-to videos are easy to find for just about everything, and articles full of clever hints and hacks are all over the place. But this ...
Read More »Long-Term Food Preservation Secrets Of The Native Americans
Traditional food preservation and storage methods have seen an uptick in popularity in the past decade, as people show an interest in learning how the native people of America preserved food and kept it safe for later consumption without refrigeration. ...
Read More »The Dumbest Mistake Even Experts Make In Food Preservation
My mother tried to teach me about food. She did it all — gardening, canning, jellying, freezing, drying, cheesing. She knew all about the so-called “Hundred Mile Diet” that has become so popular in recent years, the now-trendy notion of ...
Read More »Hate Canning? Try These 4 Simpler Food Preservation Methods
Canning is practiced by grandmothers and mothers all over America. The sterilization of high heat and pressurization has made it the safe and preferred preservation of Americans for generations, but some people aren’t interested in spending hours over a stove ...
Read More »Hurdling: The Secret Food Preservation Technique That Can Add Years To Shelf Life
As a species we know a lot about food preservation. It started thousands of years ago and it has kept us alive to this day. But in many of those tried-and-true techniques, we sometimes engage in a food preservation process ...
Read More »Which Preservation Method Is Best For Which Foods? (Here’s How To Know)
I am frequently asked what is the best preservation method for various foods, and the answer is almost always the same: It depends. The best bet is to be ready and able to do a combination of canning, freezing, ...
Read More »Easy-Storage Garden Foods You Don’t Have To Preserve
Food preservation skills are an important part of homesteading. It’s wonderful to pop open a jar of home-canned tomatoes or enjoy your own frozen peaches when the garden and orchards are buried under two feet of snow. But let’s face ...
Read More »The Time-Tested, Hidden Benefits Of Fermented Foods
Fermented foods: the words bring up images of sauerkraut and kimchi along with other pungent morsels. But if you haven’t given it much more thought than that, well, perhaps you should. Fermentation is a great way to preserve food without ...
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