Want this question answered?
Salt curing Dehydrating Freezing
Food is preserved by curing with salt, smoking, pickling, drying, or canning.
Fermenting, salt-curing, smoking, canning, and freezing.
salting canning drying irradiating boiling curing and freezing are all methods of preserving foods
salting canning drying irradiating boiling curing and freezing are all methods of preserving foods
It isn't necessary to add salt to canning tomatoes, but if you do, be sure to use salt with no iodine.
Curing. As in "curing meat".
No.
There are lots of food products that contain preservatives: nearly everything manufactured or processed has preservatives in them. Raw fruit and vegetables and fresh-caught fish have no preservatives. Butchers can sell you meats without preservatives.
When doing any type of canning or perserving, do not use regular table salt, which can alter the color. Instead use canning salt or sea salt.
The National Center for Home Food Processing and Preservation (NCHFP) has a website that provides an excellent forum for information on curing, smoking, fermenting, freezing, canning, and dehydration. They have an excellent guide that provides detailed instructions for canning, freezing, fermenting, curing, and smoking meats, fruit, and vegetables. You can download it by section as a PDF file. It is funded by government funds and is free.
Brine