Preserving cooking oil by canning

I love raising sunflowers..there is nothing that brights up my day more than to look outside at the garden and see my beautiful sunflowers I have about a 100 in the middle of the garden, I might try getting the oil...I saw a neat little press the other day and instructions on how to do it. Here is an old timey sunflower huller..lol

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_.../oilpress.html

What is wrong with people? Getting nasty with someone that's going out of their way to help them. Seems like some people generalize others a little too much. Sure made it a point to say that they were busy homesteading and can't read all the posts. Everyone else brags but never yourself.


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People answered your question- you didn't hear what they said. DON'T CAN OIL. It's a waste of time. Yes, you can do it. No, it isn't necessary. Yes, it can actually lower the storage time of your oil.

I called the number on the back of the Crisco can. Store oil in glass or metal containers. If you have to transfer, try to add the least amount of air into the oil as you do it. Fill the jars as full as you can. Wipe the rim very well and put the lid on. (vacuum seal if you want). Store them in the dark. They will keep in a cool place for a very long time. I have kept oil for over 5 years this way. Air is the problem with oils - not pathogens. So you don't need to heat it. Heating it, can actually cause it to spoil faster due to the influence of AIR into the oil as it boils. A note to add to this - if oil is stored for a while then opened, it seems to go rancid faster than if it were new oil. Put the oil in small containers. Plan on refrigerating after it is open.

I'm afraid this is another thread hijack, lol, but I can't offer any more advice than what has already been said. The question was answered in as many different ways as people could think to put it.

I just don't understand why people ask for advice and then don't take it or argue with it, much less why they feel the need to be rude because it wasn't delivered in exactly the fashion they wanted or because someone posts "extra" knowledge that might be really beneficial or of interest to many, not just the one. If you had a relative, friend or neighbor standing in front of you, would you tell them to give you only the exact information you asked for and to otherwise just shut up?? I certainly hope not!

I think this sort of thing is exactly why these boards are so dead any more. People get tired of trying to help and being treated badly for it. If you're "too busy", too lazy or whatever to Google the question and find your own answer, then you sould be grateful someone is taking their time to answer you and do your work for you. I think that sort of goes along with the "neighborly help and friendly advice" that is...make that used to be...the backbone of this forum.

Which brings me to my point...Andy, have you posted anywhere about your experiences or plans for dealing with the oats? If you haven't done that yet, maybe once you've processed your oats and sunflowers you could do a post for those of us who ARE interested, pretty please? I'm very interested in both of these, but figured it would be cost prohibitive to buy the equipment needed to process the sunflower oil and/or hulling and rolling the oats. I would love to hear your experiences, since you do everything so well!

Some one mentioned botulism growing in oil, it must have water to grown in. Pure oil can not grow botulism.

Store in glass containers. Do not can. Two things make oil go bad... heat and air. Polyethylene containers "breathe" If you get it in metal containers leave it in them and don't unseal, else put it in glass with no headroom.

Max

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Sounds perfect to me!

This is the absolute rudest post I have read in a long long time.

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