How can you can green beans?

Answer 1

Like other veggies, canning beans requires a pressure canner. Other acidic fruits, salsa and jams can be canned with a hot water bath canner. Pressure Canners will have directions in them for canning beans, depending on the type of bean you are canning.

(When I was young, my mother used to can green beans in a hot water canner. We would put fresh green beans in jars with water, put the lids on loosely, place in the canner containing the same temperature water and heat to boiling, Boil for several minutes, then remove the jars and tighten the lids. As the jars cooled, the water and hot air inside would shrink, causing a vacuum which made the jar lids pop down and seal tight. We then put the jars in a cool dark storage area and ate them all year until the next harvest. Any jar that failed to seal became that nights supper.

Boiling the jars and the water inside them killed any bacteria that could cause the beans to spoil, as well as anything that could cause disease. This method has been in use for hundreds of years and more information is readily available on the net.)