and he's continued to thrill audiences as recently as "The Good Wife," with his portrayal of Louis Canning . But he's also a best-selling author and he's written three books.Is that right? Three?
And it was like-- you know, in the '80s, I remember when I first started at this new school, I moved from Hackney to Canning Town. And I was probably about 12. And I was a very thin kid.
a constant stream of warm air going up there and drying your food quickly. It can be like, after a day. Then you have nice, dried food; it's a great way to preserve food, as opposed to canning , which is a scary thing to do because you have to worry about botulism and things like that, if the acidity content isn't high. They've also made good use of the parkways to grow vegetables. They call this their illegal parkway garden. And they grow squash there, even though you're not really supposed to
These are sour beers that are fermented with bacteria. We got a separate canning line so that we could put the beer-- live bacteria into the finished goods. That's something atypical of what a lot of the sour beers that are out there in the market-- those are usually kettle sours, which they kind of cook it
And some of the things that we discovered we still do today such as canning . This is actually canning season. I have how-to's on my blog.
So this is my mother's almonds and cheese, a very traditional tapas what I'm about to do. would be canning . If you Google it, and you put "canning ," you're going to see one guy shows up, Nicolas Appert.
So this is my mother's almonds and cheese, a very traditional tapas what I'm about to do. Why is canning not something like that's more available to that part of the world?
that you have to check ahead of time. So you're constantly canning -- brewing and canning and brewing and canning .
Do they look thick? So this is my canning pot for today.
Do they look thick? and call it a canning rack.
Do they look thick? When it comes to canning , there are really three tools that I recommend as sort of must-haves.
Do they look thick? You want a canning rack, but you don't have to even have this guy.
So this is from our section on canning . And if you have an acidic vegetable, in this case, pickled vegetables, you can do what's called "boiling water canning ." And this is our photo for boiling water canning . We use this idea of a cutaway throughout the book to try to illustrate the magic view of what's happening in your food while you cook it. As you can see, we not only cut the pot in half, we cut the jars in half, too, 'cause what the hell. We have lots of photos in all kinds of ways. This is a centrifuge jar. We
But eventually they're going to work with knives. If you're going a home canning bent and have no idea what you're doing, you're probably on a dangerous path.
So on Saturday, I'll be buying a bunch of flats-- I mean a flat of tomatoes. And then I'll be canning it for the year. It's not like I can all year long, or all day.
that you have to check ahead of time. So one of the first questions was canning .
I was actually just about to talk about that, so that's the perfect question. So when it comes to canning , making a preserve like this-- and this jam is only going to have four ingredients. It's plums, sugar, lemon juice, and a vanilla bean, which I'll get in there in just a second.
Do they look thick? This is my favorite sort of modified canning rack, modified in the sense that I drop it in the bottom of the pot
Do they look thick? But so let's talk about the canning process.
Do they look thick? So any pot can be a canning pot as long as it's tall enough to hold a rack at the bottom, have the jars fully submerged in water,
So how do we get people who aren't us to pull for it, too. Maybe you could have some canning classes and take this one step further in domestic food preparation to stimulate domestic culinary arts.
to both illustrate things you couldn't otherwise show people, and to get people excited about concepts that might seem a little dull and boring. So this is from our section on canning . And if you have an acidic vegetable, in this case, pickled vegetables, you can do what's called "boiling water canning ." And this is our photo for boiling water canning . We use this idea of a cutaway throughout the book to try to illustrate the magic view of what's happening in your food while you cook it.
really young I came to San Francisco uh from the East Coast um in the 60s and I needed a job and I tried to get a job in a in a in a factory canning peas and they wouldn't have me because I would have had my arm stuck in the machine in two hours I me because uh but you know you got to have a sustained tension um
But I was skinny. And I walked into this new school in Canning Town, and as soon as I opened the door, this one kid stood up. It was chemistry. I'll never forget it.
I would say it would stay good for definitely at least like a week in the fridge. And if you don't want to do the canning and jarring and stuff, I highly recommend just putting it like in a quart-size Ziploc or-- you know, whatever brand of plastic bag you like.
I always tell people it's better to sort of walk before you can run. So you want to start getting really comfortable with canning , do the boiling water bath, feel happy and at ease moving jars of food in and out of pots of boiling water.
Do they look thick? So let's talk a little bit about the canning process now, because that's really what we're here for, right?
And there are instructions for the water bath in there. And you can really use-- I suggest getting a canning pot. You can actually use any pot, any big pot, to use a water bath.
They actually had to renovate the old Del Monte canning factory outside of Oakland.
which ended up being like an event space for us. Continued to add new equipment, new canning line-- our own canning line. We were using a mobile canner.
I googled a lot of alternatives. And some of the things that we discovered we still do today such as canning . This is actually canning season.
You're heating it, so you're canning it.
So this is my mother's almonds and cheese, a very traditional tapas what I'm about to do. Nicolas Appert came up with a method called Apperture and was the invention of canning , 1809, printed the book in 1810.
So this is my mother's almonds and cheese, a very traditional tapas what I'm about to do. The next way you want to try to revolutionize the world is even older than canning .
You don't want to get botulism. The good news is that it's really hard to grow botulism in canning jars and your home-preserved foods. And in fact, it is impossible for most of the things that we make at home, because when it comes to dealing with botulism,
and just let them sit for a day or two until you have time to come back and make the jam. It's a really good way to break up the work of canning , particularly if you have busy lives, which I'm just going to guess that all of you do. And so you can chop up the fruit one day, and combine it with the sugar, let it sit for two or three
Do they look thick? And this is my teeny, tiny small-batch canning pot.
So if I want a peach that's going to hold up well in canning , then I want to be responsible for helping make that decision.
And a very short time after that a French chef invented the first form of canning . And
But that was around 30. I was skinny. And I walked into this new school in Canning Town. And as soon as I open the door, this one kid stood up.
We were using a mobile canner. Again, we could focus and do our own quality control on that canning line and not have to rely on somebody else-- more capacity with bigger tanks, more efficiencies with more equipment outside-- grain silos we could order by the truckload instead of by the pallet.
So this is my mother's almonds and cheese, a very traditional tapas what I'm about to do. I wish that today in third world, we would be using canning to preserve the goodness of the Earth.
that you have to check ahead of time. And so for a lot of people that are starting out, they may be using mobile canning devices, or people come in and can it for them, or buy smaller machines and stuff
Also, larger pastry production, lots of canning , preserving, things like that that can't really happen at the space on 18th Street because of the size limitations.
He has a lot of LEGOs, so we balance out. What's nice about this book is that so often, when you read canning recipes, it'll say you need a flat, or five pounds, or a very large quantity of produce just to get started.
are lower in acid than they used to be. So what we've done is made a very sweet tomato that is no longer safe for canning in a boiling water canner unless you do what's called acidifying the environment. So anytime you can tomatoes, you either add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to the preserve to ensure that the acid levels in the jar
Do they look thick? You don't want to just hear about jam, you want to hear about canning .
Do they look thick? It's really handy. It's not designed for canning , but it works really well for canning .
Do they look thick? So what I like about this pot, the reason it's such a good pot for canning is that it comes fitted with this little rack.
Do they look thick? So a stainless steel stockpot, it can be a great canning pot.