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[Johnny Come Lately Name]

 

“Why?” you might ask? Because I had my cajun burner set up outside with my canning kettle on it. I lit the burner and went inside to get the stuff ready for canning. When I came out to see if the water was boiling yet, the hose to the burner had fire coming out where fire wasn’t supposed to be coming out. 

Guess that was it’s way of telling me it was time to replace that cracked hose....

[Longjohn ★]

Yay, a regulator that you can actually regulate. I detest those ones they put on the gas grills that you can’t regulate.

[Airehead]

What are you canning?

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

45 minutes ago, Airehead said:

What are you canning?

Nothing, apparently.

Made a quart of BBQ sauce. Decided to can it instead of take up space in the fridge, the way I usually do - especially since it’s also on the docket to make a batch of Buldak sauce and a batch of Kogi and can them all.

Knew I just bought canning lids, so that was no problem....except I bought wide mouth lids and I didn’t want to use my wide mouth jars for this. I had two of the smaller ones, so I used two small mouth and one wide mouth.

Then my burner self-immolated.

I brought the canning kettle indoors -which I didn’t want to do- and as I was bringing the water back up to a boil, I heard all three jar lids pop down. By rights, that means I should pull those lids, replace them with NEW ones and proceed from there.

At that point, I shut the burner off, literally threw in the towel and went for a bike ride.

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

54 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

Yay, a regulator that you can actually regulate. 

In this case, you have to have it - otherwise the burner is either off or WFO...and this thing looks like the tail end of a Falcon Heavy, at full tilt. If I ran the burner wide open, I’m pretty sure the canning kettle would hover.

I could have borrowed the hose and regulator off my Magic Beer Machine^TM but that’s just a hose and a regulator, no control.