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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I use a traditional canning pot, but have many pots this would work in.
I use the old school wire lifting rack that came with my canner. It’s almost rusted through and I shudder to think what would happen if I actually tried to use it to lift out my goodies. This darling trivet is just what I need!
Being a newbie and having made just 5 half-pint jars of jelly recently, I didn’t use anything in the bottom of my sauce pans. lol! I just placed the jars right on the bottom of my sauce pan, lol! I do plan on buying a pot so I can hot water bath all the jars in one place. If this trivet will help me become a better canner, then yes, I would love to have it!
I’m new to canning this year so my equipment is a little…sub-par. Luckily I’ve not had any broken jars yet. I was using my largest stainless steel pot with a collapsible vegetable steamer to elevate the jars, but constantly submerging that for long periods of time in boiling water has ruined it. Also, it tilted the jars toward each other which made me nervous. I’ve actually been looking for something new to use in my pot because I have about 4 bushels of tomatoes that are ready to come off the plants, and I could use a safer device like this
I bought a 22 quart pot and a rack that can be used for pints or flipped over for quarts. The problem with that is it takes forever to boil water, so if I’m going to do it I want to make the most of it and have to can all day. I would love something that would better facilitate small-batch canning.
I have a traditional canning pot/rack but I also have a very old rack that I bought at a yard sale. It has a circle of smaller rings around the outside of the rack that would be perfect for holding jelly jars in place. The only problem with it is it is just a little bit too large to fit in my canning pot. So I’m keeping my eyes open at other yard sales for a large pot it would fit in!
like you, i have been using the round cake rack…. which is slightly smaller than the stock pot, but does tend to leave rust marks when i fail to change the water…. thanks for the opportunity to try silicone….
s cree
I am traditional. 2 waterbath canners with jar lifters that I have had for years!
I have a glass cooktop that keeps me from using the regular blue speckled canner with rack. I have been using a stockpot with the insert from my pressure canner to allow the water to get under my jars. The trivet sounds like a great solution to the “like fingernails on a blackboard” sound the metal insert makes when I place it in the bottom of my pot!
It depends on the day. I don’t like bringing out the big water bath pot so normally I use my biggest stock pot. and since I don’t have anything good for the stock pot… it usually marks it all up. What a brilliant idea on the silicone!!!
I use a traditional set up with a very rusty round cake cooling rack. I was looking at the silicone trivet on amazon.com and saw that you can piece two of them together to make it larger. I considered ordering a couple, but wondered if two would be necessary or if you find that one fits your pot nicely.
Katie, for a standard-sized stock pot, a single trivet covers the bottom sufficiently. -Marisa
I have your book and while I have used some of the recipes (and loved them) I still use my traditional canning pot because I haven’t gotten around to rigging up something else. But, I may have to do something soon because I have a bunch of peaches to jam and my canning gear is at a friend’s house who is out of town. Yikes!
I use a surplus store cheap 20 qt stock pot which is great for fast heating and light weight. I add either a cake cooling rack or a reversible flower rack from Progressive but neither are really good at keeping half pint jars upright. This trivet looks like a great alternative!
I currently use a traditional canning jar rack in my pot–the one with the handles that fold over so you can close the lid. However, it’s getting rusty (hurray hard water), and it doesn’t properly fit pint jars, much less quart jars. I’d love to make a new set-up!
I use a tall pot with a metal cake cooling rack (the exact model you used to use) and struggle with the same flakes of rust and other particles – not to mention the little rust spots left on the bottom of the pot. (I do use a traditional canner for quart jars because my pot doesn’t fit very many. If I’m doing tomatoes or applesauce, I’m doing it seven quarts at a time!)
This silicone trivet seems like the perfect solution for my rig. Fingers crossed!
I’ve just started canning this year (got your book this summer and love it!) and don’t have a proper canning setup yet. For a pot I use my DH’s 5 gal brewing pot, and the “rack” is just a bunch of extra jar lids set evenly across the bottom.
Most of the time, I use a traditional pot, but for the occasional small batch, I’ll use a stock pot with a layer of old canning rings on the bottom. No matter what I use, I usually have my electric kettle full and hot – it’s great for topping off the water if I need it.
What a neat idea! I use a traditional water bath canner, but this was the first year I did it at my home. As a kid it was with my grandmother, as an adult with my mom. Both are gone now and a friend and I bought a water bath canner to embark on our own adult canning journey. She’s a total novice and it feels different for me to do it without my mom around to ask a question…Sort of a bittersweet experience, but I think she would have been happy with it.
I asked my dad a few questions and it became a nice bonding experience. I can’t imagine all they used to can on old wood stoves. Funny how traditions keep on rolling, I think I’m the only one in the family that does anything like this and I was sort of surprised by how much I like doing it on my own.
To answer the real question~~None of them ever used anything in the bottom of the pot at all when they canned. For that matter, when I read the modern recipes, it’s amazing all of us haven’t died from botulism. All of that to say, I love learning about new ways to do things. The other night we needed a 2nd pot and were going to try canning rings, but hesitancy got the better of us and we just made the night longer by using only 1 pot.
Much to learn, which is so much fun! Thanks for your blog, and more importantly for sharing traditions that would pass with our grandparents generation if we weren’t picking it up and making it our own.
Peace
I use a small round cooling rack with an extra lid or two on the side so the jars don’t fall over.
Depending on the size of what’s being canned I used either my traditional canning pot or a smaller stock pot will do the trick, the cake cooling rack is used for that or occassionally I’ll fill the bottom with jar rings. I LOVE this silicone trivet and would put it to good use.
I had a traditional canning rack for my jars until it rusted. Then I saw your post and scoured for something similar. In the end, I bought a bath mat and cut it to fit my pot – definitely unconventional and not sure if food safe, but hey, the food is in jars. Would love the trivet – it would eliminate the suction cups sticking to the bottom of my canning pot!
I have a regular canning pot and a flat-bottomed rack that I bought from an online canning shop. I would love to try out this trivet, especially when I have 2 canning pots going at once!
I don’t want to jinx myself, but I use an old aluminum (or some sort of metal) stock pot and no trivet or rack. I’ve rarely had jars crack on me, maybe only 2 or 3 times, and I hope my luck continues! I did think the towel-on-the-bottom-of-the-pot idea was clever so I tried that once, but the towel floated and just irritated me too much.
The blossom trivet, however, is adorable, and would be perfect to set my baked goods on to cool!
I don’t put anything at the bottom of my pot and I keep my fingers crossed that the jars don’t explode. It’s really my least favorite part of the process lol! Just haven’t had the money/chance to buy something.
I think I’m canning on borrowed time here – I’ve never used anything in the bottom of my pot, and luckily haven’t had any mishaps yet. Not sure how much longer my luck will hold out . . .
My favorite thing to use is the steamer canner…OMG i love it over the water bath canner…uses less energy and i am hooked…love the trivet!!
thanks for an opportunity to win…
Melissa
I have the traditional ball canning pot with rack. I love it but its not good for small batches. I think I need something like this to use for small batches. And its cute too!
I use part of an aluminum baby bottle sterilizer that I found in my mothers basement. It fits in the pot I use. Its time to update!!
I use a traditional jar-lifter rig for my 20-qt canning pot, but I don’t have anything for smaller pots, when I’m canning in smaller batches. That trivet looks perfect!
I have both a Graniteware BWB canner that came with a rack and a pressure canner (whose included rack is really just a riser for the bottom of the pot.) Unfortunately hard water is doing nothing good for either, despite best efforts with Barkeeper’s Friend and vinegar in the canning water. I’m thinking this might be easier to clean.
Hi Marisa! I use the 4th burner pot for canning, since I am almost always doing super small batches. Recently, though, I’ve realized that I need to upgrade my gear if I want to do more than 2 jars of jam at a time!
This would be a perfect addition to my smaller batch equipment shelf…looks great.
I’m new to canning and had no idea such a pretty design was available to hold my jars up! I would love to win this
I bought an All American 921 and after I messed up my first attempt, I’ve since done a few more thing and am plugging along. Canning is hard work but I love looking at the jars when I’m all done!
I’m using a traditional water-bath canner, but I need something to fit in smaller pots because it’s such a pain to heat up a huge canner for a few half-pints!
I’m just starting out with canning this year (pickles so far), so have been making do with what I’ve got on hand. I did recently get an enameled water bath pot with rack, but before that I was using a big stainless stock pot that I would use for brewing beer, jar bands wired together for a rack, etc. I did buy a rack to use with the stock pot previously, but it was 1/2″ too big to fit in the pot – so it’s turned into a cooling rack instead.
I am new to canning and the first recipe I tried was the Plum with star anise – I am now completely addicted to it and have made 3 batches! I did not realize tho that the jars shouldn’t sit on the bottom of the pot – whoopsie! I really need this trivet.
I’ve got a big old hand me down pot with a really rusty rack in it. I also use smaller pots for smaller jobs.
I graduated recently to a real live canner (a vintage number gifted by a friend). Before that I had an awesome yellow enameled pot, but I used it so much it got a rust hole in the bottom and rendered it useless.
Traditional. But am looking to cobble things together for small batches. Thanks for the chance!
I have a boiling water canner and a pressure canner, but I’m guilty of using my stock pot for smaller batches and either using the rack out of the pressure canner or using nothing at all in the bottom.
I have a traditional setup, but this is adorable! Thanks for the giveaway.
I have a traditional canning pot, but since I have a glass topped stove I usually end up using a heavy stock pot with an old dishrag in the bottom. I have been looking for a trivet, so I would love to win one! But if not, I just might have to get online and order one. Thanks for the opportunity!
I am a traditional canning pot user. I bought a kit – a cheap kit – and while the pot and tools are great, the jar rack has rusted! So obviously I could use this trivet.
I just use an old stock pot and put the jars right in. I really should get one of these.
We use a traditional canning pot, but my husband prefers a stock pot for small batches. The canner came with a proper rack, but the stock pot usually gets a shifting collection of jar rings. This trivet would be an awesome solution!
I use my pressure canner as my BWB. I wish I had something like this, so I could use a large stock pot; the pressure canner takes FOREVER to come to a boil!
Oh, you don’t know how bad I need this!!!!
I have pieced together my own canning rig, but recently, was traded a giant canning pot for a pint of blueberries at a garage sale. No rack, and I’m too cheap to buy one. If I don’t win, I might have to buy this one, tho!
I have a traditional canning set-up (a wonderful gift from my mother). I’d like to be able to use a 2nd pot at times, and this looks like it would do the trick!
I have a traditional canner for most of my canning projects and a stockpot for the tiny ones. My cooking set up is a little different. We have an old house with no AC so canning in the summer is almost unbearable for me. So, my hubby set up a propane burner on the porch and a hose to fill it up so I don’t have to lug a full canner outside. It’s not the norm, but I love it and it keep our house so much cooler! Plus, it frees up the stove for other things like dinner.
Last year, I purchased a round cake cooling rack. That actually sits on the bottom of my canner, then the traditional canning rack goes on top. My traditional canning rack is in rough shape.