Enter the characters you see below Sorry, we just need presto pressure canner make sure you’re not a robot. Earlier this year, Instant Pot announced that they were adding a multicooker to their line that would include a canning setting.
Would this be the electric pressure canner that many of us have hoped for? It quickly became clear that the answer was no. The Instant Pot Max is a very able electric pressure cooker that has the ability to go up to 15 pounds of pressure, but it is not the electric pressure canner of our collective dreams. There are a couple reasons for that. The first is that no testing has been done by the National Center for Home Food Preservation or any other US-based cooperative extension to determine if products processed in the Instant Pot Max reach a sufficient internal temperature to kill off any botulism spores that might be present. Additionally, when pressure canning times are developed, the time required to come up to temperature and back down again are factored into the total process.
These pre- and post-processing times are altered with an Instant Pot Max and there’s no understanding yet of how that change will effect the finished product. Instant Pot Max isn’t an ideal canning vessel is simply its size. It’s a six quart pot and can only hold four pint jars. If you are someone who does pressure canning on any scale, you will find this limitation totally infuriating. There’s very rarely an instance when four pint jars is the sum total of a batch of stock, or beans, or pumpkin cubes.
