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A quart jar of home canned green beans sitting on a counter.

How To Can Beans

Learn how to can green beans quickly and easily. Step by step tips to help you preserve lots of green beans without a lot of work.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Serving Size 7 quarts

Ingredients

  • 14 pounds Green Beans
  • 7 tsp. Canning Salt
  • Water

Instructions

  • Wash your beans, destring and remove the ends than cut into 2-inch sections.
  • Pack the beans into jars leaving 1 inch of headspace.
  • Add 1/2 tsp. of salt to each pint jar or 1 tsp. of salt per quart jar.
  • Fill the jars with boiling water leaving 1 inch of headspace.
  • Remove air bubbles from the jars by running a plastic spatula around the inside edge of the jar.
  • Wipe the rims of the jars clean and place the lids on finger tight.
  • Process the jars in a pressure canner, pints for 20 minutes, quarts for 25 minutes at 10 pounds of pressure or adjusted to your altitude.
  • Remove the jars from the canner and place on a towel. Allow them to sit for 24 hours for the seal to set.
  • Then remove the jar rings, wipe the jars clean and place into storage.

Notes

Hot or Raw Pints for 20 minutes – 0-1,000 ft 10lb pressure, over 1,000 ft 15 lb pressure.
Hot or Raw Quarts for 25 minutes – 0-1,000 ft 10 lb pressure, over 1,000 ft 15 lb pressure.

These values are from a nutritional database and automatically calculated, and should only be used as an approximation.