5 Foods I WILL NOT Can Again!

[@danbouchard6780]

OMG Jordan. Green beans? We love our green beans. I have to have many jars of GBs to make it through the winter. It's the thing I can the most of.

[@foodprepguide]

I know!! It’s kinda crazy! 🤷‍♀️

[@katrinagarland5219]

Add a zinc tablet to your green beans jar before canning... they stay bright green and are crisper. You might be processing them too long as well.

[@olgapietri4062]

The zinc trick really works. My green beans kept a very pretty green color when I added the zinc.. is an Amish trick.

[@sushicourier]

Yep, I agree with the zinc comment! They stay beautifully green and look nearly like frozen after heating. I also add a little pickle crisp to the water, which helps keep them less mushy.

[@KathyKincaid-t5h]

We love our canned green beans we use them with ham and potatoes in crockpot. A family favorite with cornbread

[@annmc3878]

I agree with the pickled red onions. I love them on tacos, but they were mushy canned. We are just the opposite from you about green beans. I can’t stand frozen green beans and a major reason I purchase a pressure canner was to can green beans.

[@renasinor1471]

I canned green beans in vegetable broth and they were great .

[@SpaceLanderGirl]

So this year I tried a kind of succotash. Limas , tomatoes, and okra. It turned out so good it may be a favorite now.

[@marysaylor8458]

I love my canned green beans. I don't like frozen green beans. Each there own. Thank you for the video.

[@ampleangel2262]

I feel you on the green beans, canned are not good. But my freezer is too full for them. So I cut mine bite size and dehydrate. Not great to rehydrate and eat themselves, but wonderful in soups, stew, casseroles, pot pies, chili, spaghetti sauce etc. Anything with a sauce or gravy you want more veg for the kiddos in a palatable form.

[@sallygordin2869]

The zucchini relish recipe in ball blue is awesome. Maybe try a small batch. As to your green beans if you add a tablet of zinc they will stay bright green and have a better texture. As to the other 3 I wouldn't can them either. Blessings friend 😊

[@danielleterry2331]

Do you put a tablet in each jar?

[@sallygordin2869]

@danielleterry2331 yes

[@foodprepguide]

Thanks for the tips!

[@bridgestew]

What size jars get a tablet of zinc? I tend do things in pints because it's just my husband and me that I am cooking for.

[@tawnroddey]

Just water bath instead of pressure canning. They stay green and are delish. Of course, you have to LIKE green beans in the first place.

[@thickwristmcfist3399]

No green beans??? I remember helping my grandma pick, clean, and can bushels and bushels of green beens.... I always loved eating grandma's "snaps".... Long gone are those days.... Happy to see so many comments on this video! Looks like the channel is growing! Bravo!!

[@janlittleton7252]

I heat my jarred green beans with onion, a dab of bacon grease, salt and pepper! Taste like fresh!

[@foodprepguide]

I've tried something very similar with my family, and I just can't get everybody on board!

[@ellaortega1554]

Thank you for this video. I think it's as important to know what not to do as it is to know what we should do. Also thank you for explaining why. I really appreciate your videos. Very informative. I just discovered your channel and have been loving it. Thank you very much for all the info. 😊

[@EmCSquarey]

Pickled red onions should definitely be made as a quick, fridge pickle , in my opinion!

[@foodprepguide]

Someone else mentioned that, too. I haven’t tried them that way! I will do a refrigerator jar this year before I give them up entirely. 😂 Thank you for the recommendation!

[@jessicajordan4610]

The canned green beans. We don't really like them just snapped either. However if you put them through a bean frencher, oh boy are they good and worth the little extra time!

[@jimgoff8126]

For onions bring brin to a boil put over onions put lids on tight turn upside down and let it cool ,if you want you can keep it refrigerator, they keep fine along as they seal because of the vinegar. Hope this helps .I do all my Pickles this way never had problems.

[@kathywills3244]

I do squash bread and butter pickles and they are so good. Also I make fridge pickled red onions.

[@foodprepguide]

Ooh, squash B&B pickles sound good!!

[@kathywills3244]

@ I just use the same brine. They turn out very good.

[@julliefillippi8155]

Can okra using old Alabama farmer recipe. I freeze and can green beans. I can mine with garlic and onion powder. I like frozen but we enjoy canned also.

[@clashalley5575]

Is that the ball vinegared onion recipe? Maybe try subbing in red onions for the pickled pearl onions recipe instead. It is a lot more mild. Or try the “onion relish” which is also more mild and is just thinly sliced pickled red onions

[@barbiegirlznailz222]

I love pickled onions especially on burgers..hubby hates them. I put just a little less vinegar than water in mine. 💚

[@kimnelson7697]

I always like videos on this topic. I find them interesting. I agree with you on the pickled red onions. I canned them two summers ago and just gave up and dumped them. I personally really love canned green beans (and fresh ones) but absolutely cannot stand frozen green beans. I feel like you either like one or the other and which type you grew up eating influences that. If I was going to list 5 things I wouldn’t can it would be 1. Carrots 2. Pickled coleslaw (I really wanted to like this one) 3. Pickled red onions 4. Chili base 5. Tomato paste

[@foodprepguide]

Yep, I think you're right! I love topics like this, too. Always come away with some good ideas - or advice on things to avoid lol.

[@1954evelyn]

One thing I can not live without is Zucchini Relish. I use it in all my pasta salad, and potato salad, and my daughter even just eats it as a size. I do not buy any pickle relish we only use this.

[@dianegeilenfeldt5452]

One of my family’s favorite way to use then is what my kids would call cheesy beans. Make a cheese sauce and add drained beans . Season with salt and pepper. Give it a try.

[@cheriwilliams7001]

This was very interesting, and I am a fan of green beans, but okra, nope, nope, nope! I do not eat it. Red onions good sliced thin and soaked in sugar before use. This was an entertaining video. Thanks!

[@lanoredixon170]

I pickle red onions in vinegar and sugar and a little salt and water and put them in the fridge to put on salads. No brining or hot water bath. They're very good the way I make them.

[@foodprepguide]

Ugh, the okra was so bad...🤣

[@foodprepguide]

I'll have to try the refrigerator method! Perhaps that's the way Panera does theirs??

[@steadfastselectionsrenee5869]

I am about to can more green beans because they were so good. I did 3 cans to test them. I warm them up in butter and add either onions or caramelized onions, bacon bits, peppers, and diced tomatoes or any combination and they come out so flavorful. With garlic, salt, pepper, Mrs. Dash and sometimes another spice.

[@foodprepguide]

That does sound yummy! 😋

[@OriginalCosmicBabe]

I was raised on home-canned green beans and home-canned corn, and to this day I can’t stand frozen green beans or corn, and just barely tolerate fresh cooked green beans. (Fresh corn on the cob is heavenly, as long as it was picked early enough not to be starchy.) I don’t care for pickled foods except pickled cucumbers (aka “pickles”). My husband adores pickled beets, I love plain beets but dislike pickled. The foods I’ve canned in the past but won’t ever again are: asparagus (too mushy), applesauce (nobody else in my family likes it, even though I use my grandmother’s heavenly recipe), and blackberry syrup (just way too messy & too much work!). I also won’t can potatoes, even though everyone in my family adores potatoes, unless someone can tell me how to do it without them turning to unattractive mush in the jars! My favorite things to can are bone broths and vegetable broth (so easy!), caramelized onions (so much work but worth it!), and carrots (I adore carrots in any way, shape, or form - except pickled!).

[@SandraGarner-q3r]

Try making dried green beans. Check out leather britches, it what dried green beans are called

[@jillfaust9127]

Oh I love zucchini relish, and many of my friends love it also. Sorry yours was not good. I was so happy to find another way to use the harvest.

[@robinguertin574]

Thank you. I've only "can" dry foods. I'm afraid to ruin food.

[@comfortcreekranch4948]

I had the freeze dried okra it was fabulous! Jordan, I was wondering about the texture issues you had with the pickled okra did you add Pickle crisp ? My Cole Slaw I canned was missing that crunch, next time I can it, I’m gonna try adding @Pickle Crisp! might work for the onions too!🌷

[@foodprepguide]

No, I didn’t use pickle crisp. Thanks for the idea!

[@Tinkerbell31326]

Put green beans in a pan with butter then sprinkle in seasoned break crumbs and toss around for a few minutes. Yum

[@foodprepguide]

I've tried something very similar. It was a no go. 🤷‍♀️ I would eat them!! But I don't make a habit of cooking things just for me - too much work to have to cook two different dishes lol.

[@Tinkerbell31326]

@foodprepguide yes, i understand.

[@debbielaney5097]

Funny how we all have different tastes, I prefer canned green beans!

[@RobinWascovich]

My mom froze green beans and applesauce. Yum

[@ProudSoutherner-dm1zs]

I prefer green beans frozen as well. I will can them but that’s for when I don’t have time to properly cook frozen ones.

[@atexaslupine]

Preach, sister. I can’t on the green beans again

[@lynnelliot7256]

Have a look at 'the farmers wife homestead' in new Zealand, she does some very good recipes, she also has a lovely recipe for pickled red onions🌻

[@emilymangelsdorf8455]

Canned green beans is what we eat the most of. I have a daughter that will not touch the green beans if they’re from the store, she will only eat them home canned

[@emilymangelsdorf8455]

I don’t like crunchy beans, lol

[@sylviah.2690]

Hello from the eastcoast of Germany😍I also do not like green beans canned up. But I like green bean salad. If you like try this recipe : Bohnen in 2 Varianten from #Natürlich Selbstgemacht. Can't live without it anymore😁 Love your videos, yours Sylvia

[@foodprepguide]

I’ll look it up, thanks! 🙂

[@bridgestew]

I really like garden fresh green beans. The texture changes too much for me when they get canned and they squeak when I eat them. I don't like it. hehe

[@foodprepguide]

Lol! I know exactly what you mean by the squeak!! 🤣

[@JanineMJoi]

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[@renasinor1471]

Pineapple zucchini. 😮

[@foodprepguide]

Yes!! SO good! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrJiIRpZbxgmrM

[@renasinor1471]

No we didn't like it compost loved it . ​@@foodprepguide

[@barbgardiner5719]

One time I made a sweet corn relish. At first it was great and then somehow the sweetness was GONE! It was just a YUCK 🤢🤮factor!

[@foodprepguide]

That's so weird how that happens sometimes!!

[@Catlud12-sx6iw]

Pickles. I love them, husband wont eat them. Waste of my time

[@tammyrichards1571]

Try freezing

[@brummieinbristol522]

I call okra snot pods. Can't stand the stuff. I find the texture very off putting.