My husband and I got a small pressure cooker (6 qt) as a wedding present. I wondered for awhile if it were possible to use it as a pressure canner, and if it wasn't, why not.
It turns out that pressure canners need to be larger, since warm up and cool-down times are included in processing times for foods, and those time periods are much shorter for pressure cookers.
The smallest pressure canner/pressure cooker on the market is this, the 12 quart Mirro. You can do 5 quarts or 8 pints. While I'm still pretty leery of the idea of operating a pressure canner on a moving boat, home canning some goods before sailing seems like a smart way to save money and add variety.
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