Susan has been supervising me as I fill jars and operate the canner. Yesterday I did green beans, and today I finished 15 pints of kraut. One lid blew or it would have been 16. I think we have 6 or 8 more pints of kraut to put up tomorrow morning, and then I must pick beans!
It's very rare but once in a while a lid won't seal during the boiling water bath, and even rarer is when a jar falls apart during the water bath.
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John: Yup, gotta clean the jars this morning! It was a Chinese lid we picked up a few years ago, and it must be out of spec. Kraut cleans up easily.
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