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title: "The Complete Canning and Preserving Kit"
url: "https://bepreparedsolutions.co/solutions/BeEquipped/kits/the-complete-canning-and-preserving-kit"
description: "Everything you need to can, preserve, and organize your harvest. Pressure canner, jars, tools, and pantry system in one complete kit."
source: "BePrepared Solutions"
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# The Complete Canning and Preserving Kit

For: Pandemic, Crisis - economic, financial and or environmental, Natural Disasters, Hurricane, Wildfire, Tornado, Flood, Winter Storm, Earthquake

## Overview

This is the whole preserving season in one box: both canners, the prep tools that clear a bushel in an afternoon, the jars and lids, and the storage and rotation system that turns a counter full of jars into a pantry you can actually shop from. It covers the full capability — can it, dry it, seal it, shelve it, and know what you have.

## When you would use Putting Up: The Complete Canning, Storage & Organization Kit

The garden goes sideways in the best way. Forty pounds of green beans in eleven days, a bushel of peaches from the orchard down the road, and a neighbor who keeps leaving zucchini on the porch like a threat. Last season that was a problem. This season it is a Saturday.

The pressure canner comes out for the beans, because low-acid food is its job and not the water bath's. While the gauge holds ten pounds, the food mill turns the seconds-bin peaches into sauce, the water bath loads for the peach halves, and the dehydrator is three trays into the zucchini nobody asked for. By four o'clock the counter is a landing strip of jars — labeled with the date, boxed into crates so nothing chips, rotated onto the shelving with the new stock to the back. Twenty-six quarts, nine pints, four trays dried, written on the inventory card. In January you do not shop the middle aisles.

## How we selected the items

We built this for the person who already did a season of jam and pickles and hit the wall: the water bath cannot do vegetables or meat, and that is where most home canners stop. So the pressure canner anchors this kit, and everything else exists to remove the next bottleneck.

Prep is the real one — a bushel of apples by hand is an afternoon, and by crank it is not — so the food mill and the peeler-corer-slicer are here. The scale is here because preserving recipes are written by weight, and pH strips because the acidity line is something you check rather than assume. Then the half nobody plans for: dehydrating and vacuum sealing for the produce that should not be canned at all, crates so glass never touches glass, shelving that makes rotation automatic, and an inventory log so the supply is something you know rather than something you hope.

## Safe processing — the line that matters

Both canners are in this box because they do genuinely different jobs, and the difference is not a preference.

**Water bath** processing is for **high-acid** foods only: jams, jellies, pickles, fruit, and tomatoes acidified with the citric acid included here. **Pressure canning** is the only safe method for **low-acid** foods — vegetables, meat, poultry, and seafood — because only a pressure canner reaches the temperature that destroys botulism spores. Acidifying a low-acid food does not make it water-bath safe.

Vacuum sealing and dehydrating preserve food too, but neither applies heat processing, so neither one makes a low-acid food shelf-stable on its own. Work from the tested recipes in the included reference, and have your pressure canner's dial gauge accuracy-tested periodically — most county extension offices do it, usually free, and it is worth booking before the season rather than during it.

## Item Highlights

*   **23 Quart Pressure Canner System**: The only safe way to can low-acid foods at home — vegetables, meats, soups, and stocks.
*   **Water Bath Canner with Rack & Core Canning Tool Set**: The second canner, for the high-acid half of the season, plus the nine tools both canners need.
*   **Food Mill & Sauce Strainer**: Skins and seeds out, sauce in, without peeling anything by hand.
*   **Food Dehydrator with Stackable Trays**: For the herbs, apples, and surplus zucchini that keep better dried, in a fraction of the shelf space.
*   **Vacuum Sealer Machine & Mason Jar Vacuum Sealer**: Bags for the freezer, and a jar sealer that pulls a vacuum on the same jars already in this kit.
*   **Jar Storage Crates & Pantry Rotation Shelving**: Glass never touches glass, and the oldest jar is always the one in front.
*   **25k Heirloom vegetable seeds**: Closes the loop — next season's surplus is the reason you own all of this.

**Estimated total:** $620. Estimated Amazon total when this page was built, not a price BePrepared Solutions charges. Kits are fulfilled through Amazon; the current price is on Amazon at checkout.

## What's in the kit (18 items)

### Food, Water & Waste

- 24 Quart Pressure Canner System, Stainless Steel
- Water Bath Canner with Rack & Core Canning Tool Set
- Canning Lids & Bands - Wide Mouth Replacement Pack
- Digital Kitchen Scale for Preserving
- pH Test Strips for Food Acidity
- Vacuum Sealer Machine with Bags
- Mason Jar Vacuum Sealer
- Fermentation Airlock Lid Kit for Mason Jars
- Pure Canning & Pickling Salt
- Fruit Pectin for Jams & Jellies
- Citric Acid - Food Grade Canning Acidifier
- Dissolvable Canning Labels
- Granulated White Sugar, Non GMO
- Wide mouth quart high quality mason jars
- Wide mouth pint canning jars, rings and lids

### Knowledge & Entertainment

- Complete Home Preserving Reference - 400+ Tested Recipes
- Pantry Inventory Log & Rotation Labels
- Home Canning Guide - Tested Recipes & Safe Processing Times

## About this kit

**Putting Up is built for home food preservers who want to do it right, from harvest to shelf.** Whether you're processing low-acid vegetables in a pressure canner, making jam, dehydrating produce, or fermenting, this kit includes the equipment, ingredients, and organization system to handle a full preserving season.

What's inside:
- Pressure canning system (23-quart capacity) and water bath canner for safe, tested preservation methods
- Wide-mouth mason jars in multiple sizes, plus lids, bands, and vacuum-sealing options
- Prep tools: food mill, peeler-corer-slicer, and digital scale for precision
- Dehydrator with stackable trays for drying produce
- Fermentation airlock lids for lacto-fermented vegetables and beverages
- Pantry rotation shelving, storage crates, and inventory system so you know exactly what you have and when it was preserved
- Complete reference guide with 400+ tested recipes
- Canning salt, citric acid, pectin, and other essentials to get started

This kit works for gardeners with abundant harvests, farmers market shoppers, and anyone building a preserved-food pantry. The included inventory log and rotation labels keep your shelves organized and your stock fresh.

## Questions

### What's the difference between the pressure canner and water bath canner?

The pressure canner reaches higher temperatures and is required for low-acid foods like green beans and most vegetables. The water bath canner is used for high-acid foods like jams, pickles, and fruit. This kit includes both so you can preserve safely across all food types.

### Do I need canning experience to use this kit?

The kit includes a complete 400+ recipe reference guide with tested methods. Beginners should read through the guide before starting, but the tools and ingredients are designed to support you through each step.

### What preservation methods does this kit cover?

You can pressure can, water bath can, make jams and jellies, dehydrate, vacuum seal, and ferment. The variety of tools and ingredients supports multiple preservation techniques in one season.

### How long do preserved foods last?

Shelf life depends on the preservation method and storage conditions. Properly canned foods last 1-5 years or longer; dehydrated items last 6-12 months; fermented foods last several months refrigerated. The inventory log helps you track and rotate stock.

### What if I run out of jars or lids mid-season?

The kit includes variety packs of jars and replacement lids and bands, but you can purchase additional supplies separately as needed during peak harvest.

Full kit page, with product details and the affiliate disclosure: [The Complete Canning and Preserving Kit](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/solutions/BeEquipped/kits/the-complete-canning-and-preserving-kit)

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_Guidance here is general and cannot account for your circumstances. In an active emergency, official instructions from local authorities take precedence over anything published by BePrepared Solutions._