Hi Kelly! I apologize in advance for leaving you such a long comment, but I couldn't find your e-mail address. In answer to your question about the canning pot... I do, in fact, have a ceramic-topped stove and I use a pressure cooker for my canning. There are a couple of other "canning pot" options out there, though. If I remember correctly, I bought my pressure cooker at Wal-Mart, but it wasn't in the canning aisle. I'm not sure what other cookers Wal Mart offers, so I'm not sure if you were looking at the same thing that I have. I never noticed anything on the box that said something about not using it on a glass or ceramic cooktop, but I always could have missed that. Nonetheless, I have used it for 3 batches of jelly, 3 batches of pickles, a crab boil and a huge pot of clam chowder, and didn't have a problem with it at all.
I do know one thing about glass/ceramic tops that a friend of mine found out the hard way. Don't set the lid to a pot on top of the stove after you remove it from a hot pot. The hot temperature of the lid can cause a suction to form and crack the top of the stove. I never knew that before she broke hers... just FYI.
Feel free to let me know if you have any more questions! :0)
Hi Kelly! I apologize in advance for leaving you such a long comment, but I couldn't find your e-mail address. In answer to your question about the canning pot... I do, in fact, have a ceramic-topped stove and I use a pressure cooker for my canning. There are a couple of other "canning pot" options out there, though. If I remember correctly, I bought my pressure cooker at Wal-Mart, but it wasn't in the canning aisle. I'm not sure what other cookers Wal Mart offers, so I'm not sure if you were looking at the same thing that I have. I never noticed anything on the box that said something about not using it on a glass or ceramic cooktop, but I always could have missed that. Nonetheless, I have used it for 3 batches of jelly, 3 batches of pickles, a crab boil and a huge pot of clam chowder, and didn't have a problem with it at all.
ReplyDeleteI do know one thing about glass/ceramic tops that a friend of mine found out the hard way. Don't set the lid to a pot on top of the stove after you remove it from a hot pot. The hot temperature of the lid can cause a suction to form and crack the top of the stove. I never knew that before she broke hers... just FYI.
Feel free to let me know if you have any more questions! :0)
Thanks Holly!
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