I have had several people to ask me how I air seal our jars. This is our air sealer>
I connect a cap and hose to the machine.
I have a Food Saver. There are different models and ours came with two canisters that you can air seal. It did not come with a jar cap. I ordered our jar cap from Pleasant Hill Grain several years ago.
I simply connect to a port...
Set it to vacuum and Seal...
connect the other ind to the cap. This is the bottom of the cap...
I place the canning lid without the band to the jar....
Center the canning lid
Place the jar sealer cap over the top of the jar and canning lid...
On my unit I press this part down to turn it on and the vacuum starts.
It makes a very tight seal so I have to use a pop bottle opener...
This pop bottle end not the can opener end...
And that is it, the jar is sealed until you are ready to open it. This is good for dehydrated foods, cereal, most any kind of dry foods you want to keep fresh.
If you decide you want to dehydrate food, I highly recommend you to get a good dehydrating book. Some foods must be blanched which is not difficult at all but when I do canning or dehydrating I always follow my books. I also suggest for canning the ball canning book.
I hope this helps, Grandma Donna
