i am making home made sauce from the tomatoes from my garden and am going to can it. Can i add meat? im not sure if the meat can spoil when i can the sauce but any ideas or suggustions?
only if processing with pressure cooker otherwise add meat when preparing sauce after when using the canned sauce
Yes, you can add meat, as long as you follow proper cooking / canning procedures. They sell canned spaghetti sauce with meat, don't they?
No, make your sauce when your ready to use it, add your meat. The processing in store bought meat sauce is different.
I have canned meat (venison) but I have never made pasta sauce and canned it with meat in it. Personally, I wouldn't because we eat pasta sauce with a lot of different meats in it. Sometimes it's hamburg, sometimes it's italian sausage or chopped clams. Or I'll use it to make a veggie lasagna. And no, I don't use a pressure canner. I use a hot water bath. Millions of jars of foods have been canned for years in nothing more than a hot water bath and with minimal problems. My grandmother never used a pressure canner in her life and never had a problem. She lived to be 99. If you follow good food safety practices, process properly and store properly, you will be fine. I do think the flavor is better for frozen meat but the time I canned venison, I was out of freezer space and had jars. It was good and kept well but a heck of a lot of work!
