"beaufortnc" wrote in message
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Does anyone know if there are lexan canning jars, or the equivalent? I
googled the term, but found nothing concrete.


I have a couple that my son got for me from Boat US. I'm not sure how much
they cost since they were a gift.

These look very much like glass and I didn't know they were Lexan until I
saw them in the store display. They have a Lexan top with a wire bail to
hold the cover on and use the standard Mason jar rubber seal. I don't know
if they would stand the heat of a pressure canner but I'm sure they would
work for 'hot-pack' canning where the vacuum is achieved by the cooling of
the contents rather than the pressure cooker/canner.

If your really serious about canning for a cruise, you can get cans, lids
and device for crimping the lids to the can edge. My old boating mentor use
to can his own tuna in metal cans with a pressure canner.. He seldom had any
can failures and his tuna and fish chowder had a shelf life numbering in
years. He never canned other meat, but that was mostly because he did
coastal sailing and could by it fresh when needed.

My Grandmother (before we had electricity) use to can meat but there was
always a high risk of it failing and it was not uncommon to have a mason jar
explode in the cellar.. My Mother preferred to pay for a "freezer locker"
that she rented in a near by town.

(Yes! It's true! I'm old enough to have lived in the era where we rural
folks lived without electricity, indoor plumbing, went to one room school
house and in bad weather my father took use to school on one of his plow
horses. Finally got electric when I was about 13yo,1950) (Never had heat in
a bed room and a glass of water would freeze if I didn't drink it.)

Oh! Presently live in W. Washington and heat with wood (pellets), but have a
heat pump/AC that is too expensive to run in temp below 30 degrees.

Life is great when you can look back at what it was like 60 years ago..

Steve
s/v Good Intentions