About The Canning Shelf

The Canning Shelf helps home cooks choose preserving methods and equipment without the guesswork.

It's written by Michael Mathes in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

How we write

Safety guidance is sourced, never invented. Methods, times, and do's and don'ts come from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning as published by the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP). We link the exact page we used.
Product details come from the maker. We quote published specs and give the date we checked. We don't make up prices, ratings or test results.
We say what we tested. Our current guides are research explainers, not hands-on reviews. If we test something ourselves, the article will say so.
Images are illustrations. Cover images were generated for this site and don't show specific products. See credits.

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