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RE: Canned! What To Do When You Have An Overabundance of Produce: Bush Beans (Part 1)
Awesome to see each step of the way! I've only done pressure canning once with a friend. I need to get a big pressure cooker. Have you tried pickling beans?
Thank you for the feedback! How did you like the canning process? You can get a pretty good deal on pressure canners on Amazon, I highly recommend one because it takes canning to the next level. I guess I'd consider canning these bush beans as pickling beans even though I didn't use vinegar, just brine. Which kind of beans do you mean?
Canning was fun! I look forward to doing more of it once my fiance and I move our of our travel trailer. Looking forward to getting back our our dehydrator and learning as much as I can about fermentation and pickling. I've only recently learned to make sauerkraut but it was so fun. Stained my hands purple for a few days. :) I guess I was thinking of pickled beans in vinegar. In brine they would be more subtle, right? How do you make your brine? Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Wow that sounds exciting! Where are you guys traveling? I'm REALLY excited to get into dehydrating so I can make my own MREs, it seems like the food lasts longer that way. But yes, you're right, pickling uses vinegar specifically so I resend and say that I have not pickled beans haha. The brine I use is just boiling water and a couple teaspoons of pickling salt per pint jar.
Right on! We're actually living in our camper on our land we just got last year outside Asheville, NC. We lived in it on an urban farm we had in Austin for a couple years, took it to the Ozark forest and spent a year farming in the woods, and now we're finally putting down some roots. I can't wait to do lots of pickled peppers too. Have you checked out the book Art of Fermentation?
I do business in Asheville sometimes, it's such a beautiful place! I wish you the best of luck on your newly-acquired homestead. I haven't actually read the Art of Fermentation but I've heard nothing but good things about it! I'm interested in making kombucha and yogurt so I may add it to my library soon to get the ball rolling on that one.
It's very beautiful indeed. I was born in Austin, so these mountains are quite a change! My Dad actually brewed Kombucha about 25 years ago when very few people had even heard of it. As a kid, I thought it was so weird wondering what these weird floating mushrooms all around our house were. Haha. Now, I wish I could go back and have access to the unlimited supply of free kombucha! He taught me to brew it but it's been years, so I too need to get on that! Yogurt and Kefir would be awesome too. Enjoy the day!