Presto 01781 23-Quart Pressure Canner and Cooker

I love canning, but in the past have used Maid of Honor and National-brand canners - sturdy ware produced in the USA. I'm having trouble finding the right seals for these (the Prestos that are supposed to work are an inch too long) and decided to buy a newbie. Even though I can regularly, I was still a little reluctant, because of reviews where the gauge flew off. What I really wanted was an All American, but it just wasn't financially feasible, so this was the happy compromise. Before use, I read through the instruction booklet twice before I used it, because this canner is a little different than the ones I'm used to. If you haven't used this type or brand, definitely read through it carefully and follow the prep instructions before you begin. Quality Obviously, this is a newer item and not nearly as heavy as the older canners, or as extra sturdy as the All American. However, it is heavy-duty enough to do its job for more than just a few pressure canning sessions. The lighter version is MUCH easier to carry around than the older versions. This model has plastic handles. My older canners have wood handles - which I LOVE. They are much sturdier than plastic; however, I'm a realist. This is 2010 and you won't be able to find a new model with wood handles. If you want something super heavy duty, then bypass the cheaper models and get an All American, because you won't be happy otherwise. If you are on a budget, this is definitely worth a look. Seal I LOVE the seal with this canner! It is super heavy duty - much thicker than other seals I've used. It is about half an inch wide and fits snugly in the cap. I'm assuming it's thicker because this canner is tall - holds up to 20 pints - and it needs a heavier seal. Whatever the reason, it is terrific. The thicker size makes it easier to fit into the lid. It is a nightmare to try to fit the thin seals in the thin areas on other canners. I hope this seal is heavy duty enough not to wear out quickly. I will keep you posted on that as I finish up my canning season. Regulator I didn't really care for how the pressure regulator just sat on top of the vent pipe. To me, that is just a little dangerous. However, after using, I can see that it works. It sits loosely on top - easy to pull off and on. However, if you turn it slightly, it somehow catches on the vent pipe. It's still loose, but slightly more secure. If you watch your pressure, you would have no problems with it coming off. What confused me is that the black knob turns - which is typical for canners that allow you to regulate pressure by releasing steam AND changing the amount of heat used. However, the book says nothing about being able to turn this knob to release steam - and the regulator sits too loosely on the top to be able to turn the knob. It would definitely help regulate the pressure to release steam slowly. I plan to contact Presto to ask them about this - and look through the book one more time to be sure I didn't miss something. Ease of Use Again, I read through the booklet carefully a few times before I used this canner. I use a gas range and found it tough to keep the pressure regulated, even when I turned the heat all the way down. I had to sit with it the whole time - but was prepared for that. When canning, you cannot do much else but watch the pressure gauge. It sealed up quickly and pressurized fast. I love the lines on the inside that show how much water you need. Makes it a no-brainer for those intense canning days. The lid is also easy to put on. I only use these for canning foods in jars. I never use them for pressure cooking food. However, there are instructions for that as well in the book. Please note: It says not to use on gas stoves above 12,000 BTUs. Also, do not use on glass top ranges Overall Thoughts For the price, the Presto canner is worth a look. So far, I'm pleased with the purchase and plan to keep you posted on how it works out. You just never know until you get a few years into it.

I’m so excited to learn to Pressure Can using this UL certified pressure canner! I’m thrilled to learn how to store chicken broth in a shelf-stable way, because having the broth take up half of my freezer isn’t working for me anymore! Plus, the Pressure Canner cost far less than a new freezer would! And takes up less space!

I've been using this for over a year now, and it's been amazing. The quality is really good and it's the best canner I've used. I checked prices everywhere, and Amazon had the best deal by far. It's all aluminum and works great on my glass-top stove. The thick bottom plate spreads heat evenly, and it easily holds 18 PSI by adjusting the heat. It's way lighter and much quieter than my old All American canner - no loud noise that bothers anyone in the house. I use it almost weekly for canning vegetables, meats, and soups. It holds a lot, heats evenly, and keeps pressure really well. Super simple to use, and cleanup is easy too. If the rubber gasket wears out, it's only $7 to replace. The manual warns not to use it on outdoor propane burners over 12,000 BTU or it'll warp, but on a regular stove, it's perfect. It's held up perfectly with frequent use. Definitely worth the investment and should last me a long time. Highly recommend if you want a solid, no-fuss pressure canner.

I live in New Mexico. Home of Green Chile. I mostly use this puppy for canning green chile forty pounds at a whack. Full weekend at a whack. A lot of work, a lot of mess peeling those roasted chiles, and sheer exhaustion, followed by a promise to myself to not do it any more. But then, I am eating the most delicious chile all winter and summer long. I put it in food that friends eat and they love it. I give them pint jars all the time and they love those chiles. So by the time fall rolls around again and my stockpile is depleted, and I drive by a place roasting those truckloads of green chile and smell that oh-so-lovely smell, I am ready to do it again for another year. I am a city boy. I don't know any farmers. Or hang out with old grandmas. I just have the Ball Blue Book guide to preserving, the instructions that came with this pressure canner, and a guide to preserving that I downloaded from New Mexico State University (my state's agricultural college). Your state has a college and a guide like this, too. ALL the people I know have thought I might kill myself preserving food. But as I am still alive many seasons later, they have swung around to the fact that I might actually be doing something right. They also see me opening my little room-temp jars and eating my lunch right out of them. They also take and eat the chile. Food preserving can be dangerous if you don't do it right. But if you can just follow the directions EXACTLY as are laid out, hit the right pressures for the altitude of your location, which will hit the right temperatures for the right amount of time using the right type of jars and lids, you can do it. After the first time, it is not even hard. The reason for getting this pressure canner is--you can do it without any chemicals of any kind. Just water. And it will sit on your shelf at room temperature for a long time and be perfectly safe when you are ready to open the container. I've canned sauces and soups and stews. Venison. Tomatoes. Potatoes. Asparagus. Artichokes. Green beans. Pinto beans. Onions. Mostly I just played to see what can be done. But every year, the green chile. That alone has made it worth the purchase price. Is it pot itself safe? You bet. The lid locks down very securely. The pot is thick and heavy. It is wider than my kitchen (electric) burners, but there is a plate on the bottom that fits those burners perfectly. There is a guage provided so that you can see the pressure performance at all times. If you want to take your canning to the next level, buy this pot!

I've done a fair amount of water bath canning in the past, and I work with pressure vessels every day at work, but for some reason I've always been freaked out by pressure cooking/canning. I'm really glad I finally decided to push past that, because it turns out I love it. It was easy- in some ways easier than water bath canning, and is clearly very safe. I especially love the little silicone over pressure plug in the lid. It also seems impossible to put the lid on wrong, and everything is very well-made. The manual gives instructions for doing a "dry run" with a few cups of water and no jars, just to go through the process of bringing it up to pressure etc, and I definitely recommend doing that if you've never pressure canned before, it made me feel much more confident doing my first real batch. I've now done two batches, one of squash and one of half pumpkin half beans, and I have no complaints at all! I went back and forth on which size to get, particularly because we're a family of 2, I thought the larger might be overkill. Ended up going with the larger, 23 quart version, and very glad I did. When it first arrived I thought omg that's huuuuge, but when I actually started putting jars in it, it's not a ton of space. Plus if you want this to do double duty as a water bath canner, I think the 23 quart is a must. If you're struggling to fill the canner, you can put a few jars of filtered or distilled water in with your batch- makes for good emergency drinking water! Ultimately I think the larger size is more efficient, even for small families. Since this is my only pressure canner experience, I don't know how presto compares to other brands. However, this was very easy to use for a beginner, and in my opinion very reasonably priced for the value. I expect it will get lots of use, I will update if I run into any problems- but for now this thing is awesome!

Item was in perfect condition upon receipt. Nothing was damaged, and everything that was supposed to come with it was included. THIS ONLY COMES WITH A 15 LB PRESSURE REGULATOR WEIGHT. DEPENDING ON YOUR ALTITUDE THAT MAY BE TO MUCH. THAT IS A SEPERATE PURCHASE SO FIND OUT IF YOU NEED IT BEFORE YOU GET STARTED WITH THE PRESSURE CANNING PROCESS. My altitude requires that I needed a 10 lb weight, but I did quite a bit of research before I got started and discovered this early. They sell an adjustable weight on here for about $20 that is a little tricky to get adjusted to 10 lbs but did the job as well. Finally got to use the product yesterday and other than being a little time consuming the setup was easy and I did 4 quarts of chicken. All indications of the finished product check the mark, but I guess I won't really know until I eat it. Before you get started on the canning journey do plenty of research and read the enclosed manual thoroughly. AI is a great tool for learning usage and recipes. For the sake of your sanity and time get a good idea of the process looks like from start to finish, and plan to set aside about 4 hours. Would have given this 5 stars if it had come with the weight that I needed. This is a problem a lot of people have if you read through the comments. Also, you will need a kit that comes with a jar lifter, funnel, headspace measuring tool, etc.

I had a pressure canner many years ago. Bought it at a hardware store. No guage, but it did the job. Did I sell it at a yard sale? Don't know where it went, anyway. Decided recently to can again. So I read tons of reviews, Internet articles, compared features and prices. The Presto 1781 is the one I decided on. Amazon had it with free shipping, which made this doll the perfect deal for me. I have used it as a canner about 5 times already. Have not just pressure-cooked in it. Here are my observations: Easy to use. Follow the instructions in the book, and you are good to go. This baby is heavy! Moving it off the heat when it is full of jars is no small feat (especially when using as a boiling bath canner)! Eat a good breakfast! Half pint and pint jars stack nicely. I have not tried to can more than 7 quarts yet, so am not disappointed that the max is 7 quarts. I put up 7 qts of chili yesterday and my huge cookpot was pretty full. Any more would have been too much anyway. When using as a boiling bath canner, be careful when taking the jars out, especially when putting up half pint wide mouth jars, as the jar lifters are not very long and you can burn yourself getting that bottom set out. While you can use long tongs for half pints, I tried and ended up with a mess of hot strawberry jam all over and inbetween the stove and cabinet. So, use a jar lifter and hold it tightly! I like the guage on this canner. I have never used one with a guage before. After a couple of uses, I find I can take my eyes off it once it gets to correct pressure by the sound of the pressure regulator. It gets noisy when it gets too high. I live at 6800 feet altitude, and everything pressure canned has to be done at 14 lbs. 15 makes a noise and that's my signal to lower the heat. I have a ceramic top stove and have no issues with this canner on my stove top. The canner bottom is flat and heats up evenly. I love this canner. Just wish it folded up when not in use--it's a big honker!

23 Quart pressure canner for $76 plus free shipping? Okay, sounds great. Shipped USPS on 10/22 arrived on 10/23 [Sunday]?? Stunned, is what I am, stunned. A big THANK YOU to the shipping team at Amazon!! Okay, so here's my review. All aluminum, body & top are lightly polished. The bottom has a 10 inch diameter, 1/4" thick bottom-plate to disperse heat better. The pressure caner can be used on a glass-top range... just tested it on mine [a Jenn-Air Model... well in Jenn-Air fashion, they put the info on the underside of the stove... very smart move!], worked great. In the Presto manual, there are more than a few warnings NOT to use this unit on an outdoor propane cooker as the excessive heat will warp the bottom. It states, nothing over 12,000 BTU burner, which is a normal large burner on an average range top. I also own an All American 21.5 qt pressure caner. My personal opinion is, the Presto is better for non-industrial useage. The Presto costs 66% less, is MUCH lighter, can be used on a glass-top range where the All American cannot, mostly because of it's weight. The Presto is WAY quieter. The shuka - shuka - shuka of the 'vent-weight' on the ALL American is so loud my wife asked me never to use it when she's home reading or watching the Idiot Box. To keep 'things' copacetic at home, I obliged. Presto's is as quiet as it gets. No complaints from the wife, 10 feet away, reading... always reading. If the Presto's rubber gasket fails over time, a new one can be had for $7. If the aluminum mating surfaces of the ALL American fail, you have to buy a new pressure caner, or take it to a machine shop that can accommodate a 15 inch part on a lathe. How can it fail? If you don't clean it immediately after use, maybe, for whatever reason, you don't get to it for a week, pitting of the mating surfaces will occur. At that point, unless you have a lathe that can chuck a 20" part, the ALL American is toast. I've personally seen this pitting happen more than once. This happened when cooking a roast, beef tongue, not canning. The meat was removed, the liquid was left behind for about 2 weeks because of an out-of-state family emergency. "Somebody" was not pleased when he attempted to use it the next time. The ALL American, no matter how tight the lid, would not hold pressure. All American caners/cookers are super high quality, VERY heavy duty. But as we age, that weight can become a problem. So, I'm pretty stoked with the Presto, the price and, the shipping miracle.

Ainda não usei.. Quando usar, deixo uma nota sobre o produto. Usei, e é perfeita! Um enlatador de pressão mais que completo ! Cozinha com perfeição, e faz o vácuo direitinho. Aprovei o resultado. Recomendo a compra. É uma cultura que deveria ser mais praticada aqui no Brasil, mais falada inclusive.

I grew up watching my mom pressure can, and never thought then that one day I too would enjoy this self sustaining hobby! I quickly became addicted! I researched pressure canners for a year before finally settling on this Presto Model. I actually purchased the 16 quart first, and then loved it so much, I purchased this 23 quart. I have a flat stove top, so also confirmed with the manufacturer of the range that i could safely use a pressure canner. The last thing i wanted was a cracked surface. It works like a charm! Several great points - My moms pressure canner (from the 'old days', and even today) rattles and shakes, and I never felt safe even being in the same room while it was on the stovetop. This one - honestly its so quiet, i have to force myself to remain in the kitchen because its possible to forget its even on the stove! Super quiet, no rattling, shaking. For my range, once I am at my required pressure of 10-15 pounds, I drop my burner temperature to 2.8 and that maintains the pressure for the required time. The only sound it makes, is if I overfill the canner with water, and some of the steam bleeds off, and leaks down to the burner. But this doesn't last long, a few minutes at most. This canner is also easy to clean. It is heavy, BUT i have also seen lighter canners, and I have questioned how sturdy they are. This one fits in my sink for washing. I canned ALOT the first year, and needed a new seal, and ordered them directly from Presto. Seals were reasonably priced as well. I add a tablespoon of white vinegar to the water each time i use it, as it will stain the inside over time. I have safely pressure canned meat, including beef, and chicken, as well as soups, veggies and fruit. It also doubles as a water bath canner too. Highly recommend! Comes with a great instructional book for introductory canning, which i use exclusively for all my recipes.

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Perfect ... nice and big for sterilising 1 litre jars. The trivet is nice and stable. Works great on my electric stove top

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