Fill Jars with Tomatoes and Salt

and it drops right into our jar and we push it down we're gonna pack these jars full now here's one of the heart-shaped kinda Roma tomatoes and you basically just take the tip slice it off just like so throw that down in the yuck bucket and go right to your jar and pop it right out boom done easy perfect you may not be this good your first time but don't worry keep practicing you'll have plenty of time to practice we want to pack this stuff down in here okay so what you want to do is you want to have something you can pack it down in with let me show you basically what I'm gonna use to pack them down in here it's just a big spoon okay be careful not to get any peelings in there if you can help it try not to have too many peelings in there and you also want to work all the bubbles out of your jar as best you can you take that big old spoon and you just kind of pack them down and again you're leaving about this much head room room room which means this much room at the top right here most of your canning kits will come with the gauge just like this and it has the numbers on there for a half an inch and basically we want to be exactly precise that's how much a half an inch is cool looks like we need one more tomato in here there we go nice perfect done set it to the side grab our next jar alright guys stick with me here we've shown you how to put the tomatoes in the jar we're also going to put one teaspoon of non-iodized salt canning salt pickling salt in here okay we probably should have put that in first but it's okay to put it in after the fact the next jars will probably put it in first now if you're using the water boiler method which is what's detailed in the ball blue bowl we would put 1/4 teaspoon of citric acid or 1 tablespoon of lemon juice like you buy at the store in the can but we're not using that method we're using a pressure canner and we don't need to go and put all that stuff in there we're just gonna use salt and tomatoes awesome another Stoney Ridge farmer kitchen tip you know you can buy salt a whole lot cheaper in bulk then you can buying little salt shakers so we buy big old things I saw and we keep these little containers this is from red grapefruit and I labeled it pickling salt ok pickling saw it and this is iodized regular sod this is for me and my wife to know what salt we need to put in our salt shakers and what salt we need to put in our canned goods all right I