Description
Get Started with Pressure Canning: The Perfect Starter Kit
Everything You Need to Begin Your Canning Journey
A fantastic starter kit designed to get you up and running with pressure canning! This kit includes all the essentials, plus a few extras to make your canning experience smooth and enjoyable.
What's Included
- Spare Gasket and Overpressure Plug: Ensuring you have commonly required spares on hand.
- Second Rack: Makes double or triple stacking jars easier.
- Accessories Kit: Contains all the tools you need to start canning right away.
Click on the links for detailed descriptions of the included items.
The Presto 23 Quart Canner
This kit features the Presto 23 quart canner, complete with a 3-piece regulator. This model is compatible with induction stovetops as well as all standard cooktops. Learn more about the Presto canner here.
Note: We only stock one model of Presto canner, available as a standalone item or in this kit.
Presto Multi-Function Accessories Kit
All the tools you need to get canning straight away are included in this multi-function accessories kit. Learn more about the kit here.
Recommended Jars
Jars are not included in this kit, but we recommend our range of Weck/Rex jars (excluding the juice/deli/deco shapes) or Le Parfait Familia Wiss mason jars.
Important Information
- Complete Kits: The kits come complete and prepacked. We do not substitute or remove items. If you don't want some or all of the items in the kit, please purchase the individual items separately.
- Packaging: The items are packed inside the body of the canner. Please make sure you open the box and open the canner to find them.
Important Note: Follow the Instructions
It is critical that you read and follow the instructions provided in the instruction manual. Specifically, ensure that you adhere to the guidelines for the amount of water to use to avoid dry boiling the canner and avoid excessive heat, which can lead to irreparable damage to the canner. Failure to follow the instructions will void your warranty.
Customer Reviews
This Presto 23 Quart pressure canner is large and solid, but that is exactly what I was looking for.
It arrived in a very reasonable time and contained all the extras that I had purchased, plus some cute mason jar glasses and straws as part of a lucky dip that Ozfarmer kindly offered.
Prior to purchasing the canner I had invested a lot of time watching various people on YouTube show how they confidently use their pressure canners, and I had bought an e-book on pressure canning, so I felt ready to have a go when mine arrived.
I decided to make the first run all cold: cold jars, cold food, cold tap water in the canner. I was trying hard to remember all the steps required, so not having to worry about heating everything just made it a little easier.
As they were new and clean I put the jars and lids through a dishwasher run without any detergent and removed the hot jars to a thick towel and lidded each one til I was ready to fill them.
I loaded up jars of butter chicken, chicken broth, beef stroganoff, and Irish Stew, added the water and sealed the lid.
I was so nervous as it heated up, and when I had to put on the regulator, and the first time it hissed and jiggled. I was a wreck..lol. The kids were looking at me strangely when I kept chasing them out of the kitchen for those 90 minutes...but I needn't have worried.
When it cooled down and I opened the lid..everything had worked out perfectly. It gave me the confidence to fill the rest of my jars with more meals and go again. This time it wasn't scary at all.
Now I am going through my freezer pulling out the older meats defrosting them, and canning them up. Raw chicken breast is such a quick one to can and you don't have to add anything else.
I look forward to many years of canning ingredients and meals in the Presto.
Thank you for taking time to review your first experience. Yes we are all a bit nervous at first but once you get the hang of it you are on your way! Happy Canning :)
It's been three days since I used the pressure cooker to make my first pressure cooked meal of lamb stew.
After a lifetime of making stews, I finally realized why I was never able to make anything as good as my mum used to make when I was a kid. It was because she used a pressure cooker. I just hadn't connected the dots.
And it was amazing! IS amazing. The meat just crumbles in my mouth. The flavour is phenomenal. Three days later and my house is stilled stained with the smell of the best damn stew I ever did make.
I'm ruined, of course. I'll never be able to make a stew any other way. I will now have to maintain my pressure cooker for life, and never, NEVER, part with it. They'll bury me in it. Or maybe cook me in it, it's almost big enough.
Arrived in NZ very quickly and well packaged.
Very Happy and recommend.
This was a Christmas present that we purchased a bit late and thought there’s no ways it would come before Christmas being the busiest time of the year. Sure enough a few days later the whole kit arrived! Such good value for a beginner too it has all the extra pieces.