Canning Tips for canning steaks?

[parsonswife]

We have a freezer full of rib eyes and Pork blade steaks. Just picked up top sirloin steaks too. I have never canned steaks but want to be prepared if we lose electrical.power. (I have done chicken and roasts). Can I do the rib eyes?

 

[summerthyme]

You *can* can ribeyes, or any cuts, but just realize that you won't slap them on the grill and get anything like you're used to using fresh meat. They'll end up more like pot roast.

I cut up round steaks and make stew. I brown the meat cubes after dredging them in seasoned flour (usually with chopped onions and garlic added), add water and seasonings and heat until *just* heated through. Then hot pack in jars and pressure can for 70 minutes for pints or 90 minutes for quarts.

It makes a great "heat and eat" meal, poured over whatever I've got on hand... potatoes, rice, barley or slices of homemade bread.

I have a stash of jars I keep in case I need to can up the steaks, etc ftom the freezer, but I hope I never have to!

The old Farm Journal Canning and Freezing Cookbook has instructions for canning all sorts of meat, including chicken on the bone, and even rabbit! But it's all pretty much the same process.

Summerthyme

 

[Kathy in FL]

I cut them for stir fry or stroganoff or fajitas or lo mein similar ways and then raw pack them. When I use them I pan fry with some soy or Worcestershire sauce. I admit it isn't like eating a steak but it is still beef/red meat which might be hard to get for some people during a severe economic downturn or their EOTWATKI.

 

[parsonswife]

Thank you both. I usually buy rib eyes and freeze enough for the year.....we don't do turkey or ham for the holidays just ribeyes. I think if the grid goes down we will eat them morning noon and night for a week!

 

[packyderms_wife]

What they said^^^ I can them up, raw pack, and use as a grab and go meal, our favorite is beef and noodles with peas. You can saute up some onion and bell peppers and then put the meat in with that mix and eat in numerous ways from chinese to texmex to pepper steak. You can also use it for salisbury steak, or steak with onion gravy.