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I'm
Canning Applesauce and
the jars are leaking.
Sharon
I've been canning for a long time and I've never had a problem with the
jars sealing. Recently I was canning applesauce, and every
jar leaked
when I took it out of the hot water bath.
I cleaned everything, used
new lids, and reprocessed, and it happened again. It's not a
matter of
not enough/too much headroom because I checked both times.
I also
checked to make sure there weren't air bubbles before processing. We
did some raspberry jam and that worked fine.
Any idea why the apples
aren't turning out?
Jen ~ IL
Hi Jen,
I'm stumped as to why it would do this now and you've not had a problem
before. I am assuming you are hot water bath canning applesauce.
The only thing I can think of is maybe your jars are still too hot when
you take them out of the canner. I had that happen to my
peaches last
week.
When I pulled the first jar of peaches from the canner it was hissing
like crazy
and juice was pushing out. I left the other jars in the open
canner
for about 2 more minutes and then took them out and had no
problem.
Try opening your water bath canner and leave the jars on the rack for a couple of
minutes and then take out your jars.
Let me know if that helps. I know how frustrating redoing 2
batches of applesauce must have been!
Sharon
SimplyCanning.com
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