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| So I got my new pressure canner (yay!) and brought it home for the holidays, where there is a nice gas stove with burners that are not crooked. But I never got the canning done. So now I'm headed back out to the mountains (where we live most of the time) where my electric stove has only one large burner, and it is so crooked (one side higher than the other by about 1/2 an inch or so) that the water runs to one side of the pot when I cook with just a little water. Does this pose a problem for pressure canning? Should I wait until I'm back with the newer gas stove to do the canning? (the food can wait -- it's pumpkin) |
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- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jan 3, 14 at 9:31
| Most electric burner that I know about come out. If so, you can bend it some to help to even it out. With the burner OFF, just lift the burner part and twist. Just a little at a time, and not too forceful. This should help with the uneveness of your burner. I've had this to happen if the stove was dropped during moving. Is it just 1 burner or the entire stove that isn't level? |
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| Agree that burners can normally be fixed to level IF it is the burner and not the whole stove. A thin metal shim under the feet on the low side will work if all else fails. Off-level burners makes a malfunctioning weight on the canner. If the weight isn't level on the vent pipe it can't jiggle accurately so you get false pressure readings. So if you can't fix the burner then you should not PC on it. Dave |
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| Elisa, my former electric stove was off just a little from level, and the weights on my vintage Mirro canners would just hang and hiss, not spin or lift. I kept a small carpenters level with my canning supplies and would check for level each day I started a project, letting the canner cool in place and not moving it again until I was done for the day. I'd put pennies under the burner ring to adjust, check level, little tip shown to me by my much older neighbor. If yours if off a lot, I'm imagining it just causing you a lot of frustration, it's not going to work out well. |
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| I think this is the definitive answer: it's off too much to adjust and I shouldn't risk it. ((of course, this would be a great time for that new stove my husband has been talking about!) Thank you all for the info -- and for the tips on trying to even it out. I think I'll try those, just to make it easier to cook on in general. (it's the burners, not the stove. and they're very uneven) Thank you! It is great to have this forum as a resource. |
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- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Sat, Jan 4, 14 at 8:36
| Suggestion from hubby. Take the burner in and get a replacement. He has seen burners that had been used on HIGH for too long have this problem. Usually happens just before the burner goes out. Make sure that you take the old burner (hopefully it's new enough to have removable burners) with you to get the right one. Always nice to have a back-up burner, same with the smaller ones. Most appliance repair stoves or sometimes just a hardware store may have them, or they might be able to order new ones for you. Marla |
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| Thanks, Marla, for the suggestion (and thanks to your hubby) -- which I will try. But, at any rate, I don't think I'll be canning on that stove this winter. Our water lines are frozen and so we have no running water. I made applesauce once when the water was out (that time it was a groundhog had chewed through the wires), and it was not easy to clean up! |
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- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Tue, Jan 7, 14 at 10:24
| We collect fresh snow when the water is out. This time, we're lucky, the water's been dripping/running for about 2 days now. We dropped below zero F over 36 hours ago, and hope to be above 0 late today. got down to -22 air temp and wind chills of -45-50 the last 2 nights. Nothing is moving. |
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