Prepare Pressure Canner

ear we don't need that so inside my pot that I sterilized in my jars I have my jar lids and I have that little magnet doohickey and you can reach down in to the warm water and the water is at about a hundred and sixty degrees and you get your lid okay you don't want to get it that way you want to get it the other way so we'll make sure we flip it over and I'll show you how we put the lids on our jars now this is our pressure cooker lid and this is an old-style pressure cooker it's a little different than newer ones you get may have a little meter on here or pressure gage on here or they may have a little thing that goes on here that you rotate for 5 10 or 15 pounds well what we have is the old-style and they still make them this style just not this color which is awesome so you set this guy on here that is your 5 pound jiggler okay this is 10 pounds this added to it makes 15 pounds and that's it that's your jiggler so what you want to do for what we're doing all intents and purposes we want to use the 5 pound little jiggler now we want to heat this water up we're going to put 2 quarts of water maybe a skosh more water in our pressure canner right here and then we'll set our jars down in at room temperature so all this will get warm together it's important that it all gets warm together so that the tomatoes properly seal in their jars now I'm going to take you over to the jars and I'm going to show you exactly how we put the lids on them and tighten them down and then once we get done with the pressure cooker we'll show you how we tighten them one more time at the end so stay tuned for that for sure we want to make sure that this pressure cooker it'll start jiggling it'll make a noise you don't want it to go you want it to go so in other words you want it to maintain five pounds of pressure you don't want fifty five pounds of pressure blowing up on this thing you want to maintain that five pounds of pressure so the difference in this and the regular water bath style of canning is that we use pressure and steam we're not covering the entire jar with water okay let's go over here and I'll show you how we apply our lids so we want to take