Rinse, Measure, & Mash Blackberries

so while we're rinsing our berries we're going to go ahead and we're going to pour them into a measuring cup so that we know exactly how many cups of berries that we have here this is a little bit of a challenge with only one person however can hang that right on the edge of that pan or pot and we'll just gently pour them out one nice full four quarts there's two there's three we'll say three and a half uh we'll add another half cup right there so we got basically almost a gallon of berries right here then we're gonna run cold water into our berries for our first rinse cycle before we drain them okay we're doing cold water again we're just gonna fill this up about three quarters and you'll see some of the trash will float right to the top like little leaves and stuff like that this stuff was outside man so there's going to be a little bit of trash in there and don't be surprised if you see maybe a little bug or two now as we're prepping for our canning we're going to go ahead and put a little bit of water in here and we're going to go ahead and put our canning jar lids in here and we've got a lot of canning jar lids so we're just going to separate them out put them in there we've got some wide mouth and we've got some small mouth we'll get those warm most of the time bad berries will come to the top all the bad stuff comes to the top give her another little rinse a little shake let that drain just a little bit and then we'll put it in the pot repeat this process over and over hey we've drained for just a few minutes and this is going to be the magic pot right here this is going to be where the magic happens man look at that that is absolutely awesome so we're going to add sugar to this but first we're going to smash them up good you could use a food processor to smash them up or you could just simply do what i'm doing right here a potato smasher that's it just give her a little tap and get the smooshing so we're going to keep on smushing and working this and we're actually going to start working our sugar in this is going to seem like