The Canning Mistake That Killed More Mountain People Than A Hard Winter Ever Did

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com I am Opal Rowe, and I grew up on a creek in the Kentucky mountains where every cellar was lined with jars we put up ourselves. There is one old canning mistake that has quietly killed more mountain people than any hard winter ever did, and the worst of it is you cannot see it, smell it, or taste it. Before I tell you one word of the story, I hand you a free thing you can do tonight to check the jars already sittin on your own shelf. Then I walk you all the way through what the mistake really is, why the gentle foods are the dangerous ones, and the safe way my Aunt Zona taught me as a girl at her stove. And at the very end I set two jars of green beans side by side on my counter, one safe and one that could kill a grown man, and I ask you if your own eyes could pick the deadly one. In this one, Opal covers: • The one free check you can do tonight on jars you already put up, before you throw a single one out • Why green beans, corn, meat, and pumpkin are the jars that carry the real danger, and tomatoes and pickles do not • The safe way my Aunt Zona swore by, and the heavy kettle that makes the whole difference • How to check your own gauge, your altitude, your lids and rims, the little steps that save a jar • The two jars I set on my counter at the end, and whether your own eyes could tell which one is safe Tell me down in the comments where you are watchin from, and what your people called that heavy kettle, and whether you knew this one already or are hearin it for the very first time. CHAPTERS 0:00 Walk to your shelf tonight — the jar that can kill 3:50 The foods that filled every mountain cellar 9:34 Why the sour jars were always safe 13:50 The one canning mistake — what it really is 16:02 The killer you cannot see, smell, or taste 17:55 The seed and the poison 19:00 The pressure canner, and how to use it right 20:11 Dial or jiggler — know your own canner 22:55 The little steps that save a jar 29:24 Two things folks say that can get you killed 31:36 The ten-minute boil that breaks the poison 32:43 Check the jars you already have — tonight 36:06 The proof — how bad this really got 42:27 The two jars on my counter