Most people say don’t put a canning pot on a glass top electric stove.
Well, that’s what we have. Would a camping stove and propane tank work? Any ideas?
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Are you talking about a pressure canner? It might work, but they tend to get too hot and too inconsistent of heat for a canner.
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I used a ceramic top electric range to can with no problems. But I plan to can outside using my propane camp stove this year. Should note that the stove is not my little two-burner Coleman unit, although it might do the job, but mine is more like this unit.
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No just a regular canning pot.
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Water bathing would prob be ok, but pressure canning would be another story. I think my owners manual (Presto 16qt) says not to use anything more than a 12000 btu stove. We do all our canning on an electric element stove, so no problems with that. If we had a ceramic top stove, I prob wouldn’t try it, I’d be worried about cracking the top.
What is the brand name and size of your pot?
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I did water bath and pressure canning on a ceramic top for years with no problems. I have a gas stove now, but I’ve often considered using the “turkey fryer” burner outside to can to keep the heat from building up inside.
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I used to use a big 4-ish gallon large stock pot for canning on our glass top stove with no problems. It took forever to get hot.
However, I can tell you, if you drop a full plastic container of flour from the cupboard above the stove onto the glass stove top, the glass will most certainly break! 
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I’ve had a hard time getting a glass stovetop hot enough to process any canning. i now use big propane burners to do it. propane stoves don’t get hot enough.
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What about just getting one of these?
https://www.amazon.com/Chard-DPC-9SS-Canner-Pressure-Stainless/dp/B00VTL8STO
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Looks like fun, and handy, but I’ve never done any canning with a pressure cooker I don’t know. You don’t have to get jams and jellies that hot, and I don’t put up veggies or meat; if I’m canning fruit I use a light syrup. Low pH foods should be canned in the pressure cooker. I’d prefer to blanch and freeze those as I don’t like canned vegetables very much. Even tomatoes may not have a low enough pH to be safe.
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It might be okay, but doesn’t have a lot of capacity (4qt max). We have something similar to that one, but it’s for pressure cooking only, no canning. We cook chicken, pork, roasts, etc in it. Cooks in a very short time, and the meats are cooked well, and very juicy.
We bought one of these 4 years ago, and it’s been a good canner. It can pressure can 9 pints or 7 quarts. We can’t water bath quarts in it, though, not enough clearance, but we can water bath pints and half pints. We have an old 23 quart canner when we need to water bath quarts.
It uses a weighted “bobber” instead of a gauge, which takes a lot of guesswork out of it, and obviously doesn’t need to be calibrated like a gauge.
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Like above, I used a glass top for years for water bath canner and a pressure cooker/canner. No problems. We have gas now, but it takes longer than our glass top. Funny, for years I wanted to get back to cooking with gas…and now I can’t wait to get away. Induction will be the next stop, boil water in no time flat! I do like the gas oven though, I can run that thing all day for practically nothing. The pressure cooker is great for canned meats, mushrooms, well I guess for whatever. The best thing I think I made with the pressure canner was a bunch of little jars of canned albacore tuna because at the time I had so much I didn’t know what else to do with it. It’s amazing how flavorful that home canned tuna was.
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I’ve canned doing the water bath thing on a glass-top for too long. It got to where the big burner just gave out and I replaced it. Still takes longer to do everything.
Even tried the side burner on my gas grill… no can do. (well it can, but just takes forever)
So I just ordered one of these for this year and it has really made things go a ton quicker. It’s 65,000 BTU and was $50. So far it’s been a real good decision. Unreal how quick it can bring things to a boil.
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i have the same exact one. got mine on amazon. i also use it to heat water to plunge chickens in to help the feathers come off easily. that thing rocks it! boils 10gal in 5 min! wanted a double burner but too expensive and this one does the job.
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When I turn it up to full bore it sounds like I’m on the flight deck of “Top Gun” and Li’l Tommy Cruise is fix’n to go get em!
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reminds me of the sound of a lit cutting torch! 