It’s been nearly nine months since I switched from using a round cake cooling rack for my canning rig to the silicone trivet you see above and I wouldn’t go back for anything. I love the trivet at canning rack with all my heart, particularly since it doesn’t impart any funky particles into the water and looks just as good now as the first day I got it.
In fact, the only minor issue I’ve had is that when it’s left in a pot of boiling water with no jars holding it down, it can sometimes float. However, a quick maneuver with a jar lifter and it’s back in place and ready to lift and pad the jars again.
Awhile back, I got an email from the spokesperson at Spice Ratchet, the company that makes the Blossom Trivet, delighted with the new use I’d found for their product. They offered to sponsor a giveaway, to help spread the trivet love even further. I have five (5) trivets to give away to a handful of lucky winners.
If you’re interested in entering the giveaway, here’s what you do.
- Leave a comment on this post and tell me about your canning rig. Are you a traditional canning pot user? Or have you cobbled together something more interesting?
- Comments will close at 11:59 pm east coast time on Friday, September 14, 2012. Winner will be chosen at random and will be posted to the blog on Saturday, September 15, 2012.
- Giveaway is open to US residents.
- One comment per person, please. Entries must be left via the comment form on the blog, I cannot accept submissions via email.
Disclosure: Spice Ratchet is providing five Blossom Trivets for this giveaway. They sent me an assortment of their mini blossoms for testing purposes. I’ve not been paid to host this giveaway and my opinions remain my own.
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When I process big jars I use the rusty big ‘ol rack that came in my canning pot. For smaller batches/jars I use the progressive canning rack, but it doesn’t exactly fit and tends to shift. I’m loving that the rubber trivet would just stay put!
I have a HUGE canning pot from Costco, but am looking for something to use for just the small batches. I never thought of using a trivet… Fantastic idea!!!
Sadly, I do not use one. Instead, I stand over the pot making sure the jars avoid destruction.
We use my mother’s old canning pot and have been looking for a trivet for the bottom.
I have one of these and love it!
Would love another to share.
I use an old stock pot and a tea towel. I just started this year, so I still need to invest in my supplies.
This season I’ve been experimenting with the Kuhn-Rikon Fourth Burner Pot. It’s tall, slender, and includes a rack. It’s just the ticket for the small-batch canning I’m also experimenting with.
I use the green plastic “starter kit” basket from Ball in an 11-12 quart IKEA pot I got during one of their specials a few years ago. Works as well as I imagine anything else would!
i use an old ball canning pot with a wire rack. Takes forever to start the boiling water.
Depends on how much I’m canning – I love my Kuhn-Rikon 4th burner pot for small batches and a standard enamelware pot for larger batches.
Depends upon which pot I am using. My favorite pot came with a rack that I found practically useless and my favorite rack only fits one pot! The dilemma of it all! Would love this trivet as a solution.
I have the traditional canner and rack, but my rack is getting rusty and gross, so I’ve been looking for something else. Thanks!
I use a regular canning pot and rack I picked up a couple years ago, but the rack is pretty rusted and I love the idea of silicone since it would avoid that problem.
I am a round cake cooling rack person. My set up is not ideal. I tried to use a larger pot but my flat top stove could not get the water to a boil. So I can only can pints, or 1 quart in my 4th burner pot (which I also purchased at your recommendation). Before I got the cooling rack I used butter knives.
I have a traditional canner I won from Ball that I use for big batches. For smaller batches I use the 4th burner pot by Kuhn Rikon? I found these pots at a freight damaged store for $7.00! I bought one for everyone I know.
I have a rusty (but not very old) canning rack. The idea is nice, but why would they use something that rusts?? So for now I use a washcloth in the bottom of my stockpot. It works ok, but I’d imagine this would be perfect.
I use the rack from my pressure cooker inside a bigger stock pot. The rack has not fared well after about twenty jamming seasons. The trivet certainly looks a bit more forgiving for those times when a jar slips out of the jar lifter.
I’m a traditional canner. I use this big pot I got years ago at a local drug store. Stainless steep canning rack. That’s it!
I’ve got a few options.
For large amounts, I use my pressure canner (new! super excited about it!). It came with a rack and is deep enough for water bath canning quarts. Before that, I used a tamale pot, which came with a built in steamer shelf — that was nice, but required heaps of water and hardly fit over my burners.
If I’ve got something small, I use my pasta pot, with a cake rack in the bottom. It works okay, but the rack was cheap and I don’t imagine it will hold up forever… a trivet would be great instead….
Mine started as just a stock pot with the cooling rack at the bottom but even doing pints in there was kind of tough, they barely fit. Now I use our beer brewing pot and while it takes forever to heat up, I can easily do several quarts at a time! I need to get a bigger rack at the bottom though… Maybe a cool silicone trivet!
My round cake rack fits perfectly in my big stock pot, but sometimes I just use a smaller pot and a thick washcloth I knitted. A trivet makes so much sense!
I’ve been covering one of these since attending your class a few weeks ago! I use a wire canning rack in my canning pot and some jury-rigged rings in my stock pot (in which I process quart jars because there’s more space). But one of these would be much better.
I actually ordered one of the trivets off of Amazon after attending one of your classes! Haven’t had a chance to try it yet – planning to try it today with the raspberries I picked yesterday.
I have a traditional canning set. I’d love to lose the rack–things never fit exactly!
No canner here – I use a stock pot with a cotton cup towel in the bottom. to keep the jars from rattling. It’s what my godmother used to do, and she’s who taught me to can (she was a home-ec teacher from the 50′s, so I figured she knew what she was doing!).
A silicone trivet would be kind of awesome! Right now I have a very, very clean towel at the end of the process, so I use it to wipe up the counter, etc. But the trivet is really pretty, and adheres to my “multi-use” philosophy for anything I try to fit into my really tiny kitchen.
I most often use a canning pot, but since you mentioned using smaller pots, I have used canning rings in the bottom as a riser of my smaller stock pot when I have only a few jars to process.
I use a canning pot. I’m still new to canning so I’ve stuck to the traditional way of doing things. Hopefully I can branch out and get more creative as I get better.
I am new to canning and traditional
I have two canning pots–one that fits 7 pint jars and one that’s bigger that I hardly ever use. I did just get the 4th burner pot after seeing yours in action at the book demo!
I have a traditional canning pot, but the most horrible rack ever. Jars don’t sit right in it, and it adds so much room at the bottom that certain jars don’t fit into the pot at all. I definitely need a new one and have had my eye on this one. Thanks for the giveaway!
I use a big Le Creuset for the jam-making, and a stainless stock pot for the water bath. So far I haven’t used anything under the jars to prevent clattering, so this would be a nice upgrade
I have the basic ball canning set with pot. It works just great although the basket did rust the bottom of the pot a bit after sitting in there between uses without a paper towel layer.
I use my stockpot as my boiling water canner. I think I’ve only ever made 3-4 batches of stock in it, but it has been used countless times for canning. For a trivet, I use the perforated aluminum plate that came with my father’s old pressure cooker. My father & that old pressure cooker are long gone (and, in the case of Dad, greatly missed) but the trivet has gone on to perform its duties well. It raises my jars just off the bottom of my of my stockpot for safety, is light, & easy to clean. Sadly, it is also beginning to show its age & warping a bit…
I learned canning by helping my mother and grandmother. I have an enameled canner for water bath canning and a small aluminum pressure canner. My ex- mother-in-law got me a big aluminum pressure canner at a yard sale.
Nothing out of the ordinary, I just use the supplies that came in a canning set I bought when I first started canning.
It depends on the pot I’m using as to my rack/towel set up. If I’m doing a mini batch, I’ve been known to throw a towel in the bottom of a smaller pot, but if I’m lugging out the whole canning pot set up, I use the rack. Not terribly inspired, but functional!
For small batches, I use a variety of different size pots (depends on the jar size) and line the bottom with canning jar rings. Works great. Can really use this method on any size pot.
The mother of one of my friend’s helped me do some canning; sadly, she has had to move in with a daughter and I can no longer go to her house for assistance. I need to start doing this on my own!
I use a dish cloth in the bottom of my water bath enamel pan, as my rack was rusted. I keep thinking I should get a new rack, but either I don’t think of it in a store or I am feeling frugal..I have used the dishcloth method for a couple of years now. There seems to be less breakage. I WOULD LIKE TO TRY TRIVET! The dishcloth is floaty. I know an amish woman who uses a stovetop trivet..the part over a burner?
I use a traditional 7 quart water bath canner with the lift-out rack. I have two of them–picked up one at a yard sale for 5 bucks! And when I can in large quantities, I am so glad to have two! Also works well when canning together with someone else.
When I process tomatoes I haul out the big ole canning set-up from ball. And tomatoes used to be the only thing I canned because it seemed too big a chore to haul everything up from the basement for a few jars of jam.
Since discovering your site and book (love that it is for smaller batches I rarely have a need for 24 pints of blueberry jam) I have started using an asparagus steamer for small batches of veggies from my CSA and garden. I have expanded to pickled jalapenos and beets and look forward to applesauce. It has been life changing and has had me rethinking the way I process the tomatoes. converting my stockpot into a canning pot with one of these trivets will eliminate the need to store that big pot for a once a year event.
I bought a stainless steel rack for my big pot, so it doesn’t rust. I would love, though, to use the trivet in my smaller “jelly canner” pot!
I use a conventional water bath canner, but for small batches, or tiny jars, I use the bottom half of my smallest pressure canner, with the rack that came in it. I would love to have one of these trivets, because then I could use a pot I have as an “in between” size canner.
we live in a 26 ft trailer so i use my pressure canner as a water bath too could sure use this love to read your blog
Man, I just plunk my jars into my dutch oven pot filled with water….I do always worry that they are touching the hot bottom of the pot without a lift….I would love that darn trivet.
i use a big water bath canner, or a smaller pot will a steamer for super small batches… and sometimes i go totally crazy and can using the oven, gasp! dont tell the FDA!
I have a traditional canning pot . . . but its 23 quarts so it would be great for stacking!
The rack that came with my second hand pot it useless – the jars fall right through unless, I suppose, you are canning massive jars, but I’ve yet to try that. My metal cooling rack fits perfectly in the pot and I thought it was the perfect solution. That is, until it started rusting leaving unsightly rust stains on all my jar lids. Now I’ve tied canning rings together (don’t laugh) and gingerly try to make sure no jars fall over in the process. A silicon trivet is a brilliant idea, and I will be on the lookout for one should I not be one of the lucky out of the 648 commenters to win one here.
When canning, I use a giant pot that my uncle gave me for chili (I also use it for chili) and the tray from a broken steamer that my parents got when they married. It’s not as pretty as this trivet, which I would love!
Also, heard you on NPR today, great segment!
I just have a huge pot that I hover over, I tried to use chopsticks once but that was one of those good in theory not in practice things. To be honest I didn’t start processing my jam until I made it for my wedding favor. My mom never did so I didn’t think to until I was making it to give to lots of people.