Stephen Downing wrote:

> Recently I canned some beef spare ribs to send to my brother in Afghanistan.
>
> Had 7 jars total. One blew up in the pressure canner and today when I got
> ready to send them out 2 of the jars had loose lids on them.
>
> Figure I overfilled the one that blew up but don't have any idea what would
> 2 of them not to seal properly.
>
> Any suggestions?

My suggestion is that if you have to ask
suggestions you leave the canning of meat products
to the professionals and just buy it. There are
way too many risks involved to make it worth your
while, IMO.
Goomba