Can you recan/jar canned foods?

We can get the monster cans of Taco Sauce, Olives, Soups etc for a
fraction of the cost buying the small cans. Could I recan these into
smaller jars or would they go bad?

Thanks

Tony

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:41:25 GMT, TonyP wrote:

Can you recan/jar canned foods?

We can get the monster cans of Taco Sauce, Olives, Soups etc for a
fraction of the cost buying the small cans. Could I recan these into
smaller jars or would they go bad?

Thanks

Tony

If you mean canning as in making the repackaged foods shelf-stable at
room temperatures it would depend on whether the foods were
appropriate to be processed by the home boiling-water-bath or pressure
canner methods. If they were it's certainly possible that you could
re-can them.

The downside to that is that the food would almost certainly be cooked
to death resulting in an undesirable product.

That's the real downside to the #10 cans. Once you open it you've got
a lot of something to eat up before it spoils. Transfer it into a
plastic or glass container and put it in the refrigerator is going to
be your best bet. Some things might could be frozen depending on
whether they would suffer a negative texture change or not.

Here at the house the only #10 cans we keep have dry-packed food in
them. If five or six people were sitting to the table at each meal
then the big wet-pack cans would be more feasible.

......Alan.


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lack of it is killing mankind.

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:41:25 GMT, TonyP wrote:

Can you recan/jar canned foods?

We can get the monster cans of Taco Sauce, Olives, Soups etc for a
fraction of the cost buying the small cans. Could I recan these into
smaller jars or would they go bad?

Olives are pretty stable. A once-opened jar keeps for ages. Soups and
salsa *do* decay after opening. If you have freezer space, you could
decant to bags or plastic containers and freeze; otherwise, once
opened, they will deteriorate in smaller containers just as much as
they would if you'd stored a small can/jar. You could probably go
through a normal canning process with the boiling and whatnot.