10-05-2024, 04:41 PM
(10-05-2024, 11:57 AM)UltraBudgie Wrote: This sounds great, have fun and don't blow yourself up! Or create a salsa-monster.
I've only done boiling water canning, for tomatoes, which have enough acidity to work well. I never considered that pressure canning would allow for a wider range of pH! Hmm, the vistas open...
Canned meat aside, you seem to have excellent taste in stews. I imagine your chili is a real neck-sweater.
Yeah, Rocky Mountain Madness won a few competitions. The secret ingredients are cane sugar and tequila. I kind of got out of the competition thing though, just takes too much time. Plus, anymore it's pretty expensive to do and the awards are really just bragging rights. That's fun for a while, but after a while it just gets too expensive and time consuming (i.e. travel, lodging, food costs, fuel, entrance fees, bureaucratic BS, etc.) And, now many of the competitions require you to make way more than the old competitions used to. Used to just be chili-heads who showed up for these things, now thousands show up for an essentially free lunch.
