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[MITCHELL]

Crackers

[PapaDave]

How do you 'can' your fish? I'm familiar with canning things like fruit, but have never tried it on fish.

[MITCHELL]

Originally Posted by PapaDave

How do you 'can' your fish? I'm familiar with canning things like fruit, but have never tried it on fish.

From the Time your pressure cooker weight starts hissing and rocking slow, cooking time is 90 to100 minutes. I cut up fish into 1ins pieces raw and stuff sterilized 12oz Mason jars full. I like to cut out the dark meat and cook that separate in a pan with butter lemon and hot sauce and eat right away if fresh.
Getting back to canning. I first put salt 1/2 teasp jalape?o skin 1 Tbs olive oil, garlic clove and stuff raw fish yellowtail or yellow fin pretty much taste the same canned
Packed in jars add drinking water to the bottom of the threads of Mason jar. Then I take a knife 🔪 and get all the air bubbles out of jars and cut through the fish at the same time because I mash it up anyway but never fill more water than to bottom of threads. Put bands on jars finger tight don't over tighten important. I use a 7qt presto pressure cooker it holds 7 small mouth 12oz jars
Fill add hot water 3/4 full close and cook.

[MITCHELL]

What was green turned red, easy to spot....
Tomato 🍅 basil

[MITCHELL]

You only want to can fish that is oily

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But every now and then I get one 3/4 full.
Don't be scared because you will know if seal did not seal right, you will smell it. I have had lids pop stacking things on top in shelf

[MITCHELL]

I have been canning since the albacore were a yearly thing off San Diego coast. And I can say I probably had at least half a dozen jars crack over the years. Maybe because I reuse my jars, until they crack. I always try to keep the heat down as low as possible. Just a slow hiss and steady rocking on the pressure weight.
But I have never thrown out the fish because of a cracked jar, it's always a clean crack and the fish comes out in one big chunk or you have to separate it to get out of the jar throat. When I say clean crack that's means no chips of glass. And of course I examine the fish looking for any glass. I eat the fish right away don't serve anybody. Anybody that reads this can make your own opinion rather to eat fish or not but I don't ever remember removing a glass chip from fish. If you have never canned your pretty much clueless.