3 Important Tips For Storing Canned Food
Home canning is a moderate and a practical approach to
safeguard all your diligent work in the garden. While there are certain steps
that you need to take when you're canning food, there are also some other
safety precautions that need to be kept in mind while storing canned food. Here
are some tips that will help you for safely storing your canned food and
enjoying the same for months to come.
Tips for Storing Canned Food
1. Keep the Canned Food Out Of Sunlight
The sun can really affect food quality, color,
and tastes. It's essential to keep home-canned food or readymade canned food
bought from the store in a dark area where daylight or sunlight can't reach.
Store the jars and canned tin in an enclosed area where there are no windows,
for example, a storeroom or pantry.
2. Utilize the Right Space
It is also important to store the canned food in the right
space. Place the canned food in such a place at your home where the place is
out of direct heat and sunlight, dry and cool. A cool, dry basement is the
perfect spot for storing the canned foods. In the event that you don't have
those choices, there are still a lot of spaces inside the home to store your
canning containers. A lobby wardrobe, storerooms of the kitchen and lobbies
racks are adequate places if they're not reached to by sunlight and warmth.
3. Store the Canned Food at the Right Temperature
This tip is some kind of combination of the above two tips.
The Canned food should be stored where the temperature will remain between 50 –
70 degree fahrenheit or 10 - 21 degree celsius.
Anything hotter can make the food to spoil and freezing of the food can cause
the containers or jars to break. It is also important to ensure that the food
storage space is dry because damp areas an cause the canned tins and their lids
to rust which can also damage the canned jar’s seal. This may also lead to
spoiling of foods kept in a container.
So these are the 3 important tips that need to be pursued to
keep your canned food safe so that it can be enjoyed by you for a longer period
of time.
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