Can You Can Chili Without a Pressure Canner

The only safe way to can anything with low acidity (which includes all vegetables and all meats) is to use a pressure canner. If you don’t have a pressure canner, stick to freezing your homemade concoctions. Process pints for 75 minutes, quarts for 90 minutes, at 10 pounds pressure.

What can I use if I don't have a pressure canner?

A normal large stock pot and lid from your kitchen can totally work for canning purposes. The only kicker is that it must be deep enough to cover the canning jars with at least two inches of water.

Can you jar meat without a pressure cooker?

Take the hot jars and add cooked meat into the hot jar (if the jar is cold, it will break off when you add hot and cooked meat) Put on the sanitized lids after covering three-quarters of the jar with cooked meat. Now, take the water bath canner filled with hot water and put the jar into it.