WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY: Homestead Honey Hour - Emergency Water Storage Solutions

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She just dabbles in everything preparedness and it's very knowledgeable. To come check her out. I think I've taken care of all the business I need to take care of for now. I you know, when you I don't know how familiar you are with YouTube, but once you get a good many subscribers and they kind of get a sense of what you're about and what you're interested in, they send you emails, lots of emails. I get probably about one hundred and twenty a day, and lots of people send me good information and links of things I need to check on well, I remember that, Oh, it might have been last month or even the month before. I happened to mention that I was interested in these these bags that you put in your bathtub to fill up with water to use in the event of emergency, in case you, you know, didn't have running water. And I was thrilled to find the company that sold them, and I looked all over the website to try to find out where they were made, because that's really a huge concern to me, and couldn't find that and call the company, and was disappointed to learn that they were made in China. And I did not want to put anything I might have to drink or eat in something that was manufactured in China. So I was really disappointed because I wanted one, and I mentioned that on the show and it wasn't but just a couple of days later that one of my subscribers, Vicky, thank you Vicky, if you're listening, sent me an email and said, Hey, I think there's a company that you might want to check out, and you might like doing business with them a little bit better. And so I checked out the company and liked what I saw on the website and sent a message I think I might have even got their phone number and just called to ask some questions, and they called me right back, and I was so pleased with what I found out. The person I spoke with was David Dodging, and he is the owner of Awqua Storage and sells the Aqua podkaits and he is my guest tonight and I'm so thrilled to have him to have him on with me. David, are you there, I am here. Well, welcome to the Homestead, Honey. It's good to have you. Thank you, and thank you for having me. Thank you everyone. I'm on my last burst of energy, so I'm excited I saved it for you, Sue, and I really appreciate It's really cool too. Can I Can I tell them, just kind of in a roundabout way, what you've been up against this week? Absolutely? Poor David. I kind of had trouble. I left several messages, and I was getting a little nervous because I always like to touch base with my guests to make sure you know that they're all ready for the show and stuff. And I didn't hear back, and I didn't hear back, and so I finally sent an email. Sak David, I really need to hear from you, you know, just get a little bit nervous. And he called back. He said, my wife has been out of town on business, and I have been taking care of my six month old. So not only is he running his business, but he's taking care of his little family too, and I think he's had his plateful. But if you've got enough energy to stick with us for about twenty or twenty five minutes, that'd be awesome. David, Absolutely, it for you. Awesome. Well, let's talk just a little bit because I know people want to know. I hope that they've gone. I hope that they saw my promo video and have had a chance to go and check out a little bit about your product. U you were telling me last night briefly how you got into this venue. Do you want to share that with my listeners? Absolutely? Uh, let's say just to let you know I was I'm Florida born. I was born in South Florida. I grew up in New Orleans and I now reside in Texas, and I've been to hurricanes my whole wife, and I remember religiously my mother bleaching and cleaning the tub and wasn't until one year is actually two thousand and four that you know, my mom called me and you know, like moms do check on her son, how you doing, how's everything. We're getting ready, we're evacuating, and you know, what's going on and on, And I'm in corporate America in the raw rasm, like my mom got to feed this up, and she's like, I gotta fill up the tub. And I just choked and I said, for a big bag it, You'll be done, okay, I will call you later, love you. And it just it it kind of don't it kept just eating me all ding. It's like, way, why I wouldn't you just throw a big bag of into what it's it? It? This makes perfect sense. So you know, I'm I'm doing my job and and and I'm thinking about it, and I'm like, you know, I do a little research. I start you know, putting putting the company together, the the the business whin the wheels in motion. But you don't know where you're exactly going at this point. So you start doing your research, your homework and looking, well, what kind of plastic, Well, what's on the market. You know, ziplock uses a blag, what do they use? You know, what's this material? And so you start kind of formulating, putting together, but you know, trying to keep your full time job because you got to pay the bills and lo and behold, I I've got some manufacturers made some prototypes. I'm like, you know, this is pretty cool. You know, testas like yeah, it works, and uh lo and behold. You know two thousand and five, it's Katrina. My mom cost me. Hey, we're evacuating. Different conversation this time, get it in the to fill it, get out, and sure enough they filled it up, got out of uh new one. They were actually in the Womans at the time and came stay with me in Texas. And that's when Patrina happened. So you know, you're you're sitting there and you're seeing this catastrophe and you're like, man, what's going on and what's gonna happen? And so forth, And you're still thinking, man, but this thing work, what's gonna happen? What are you gonna do? You gotta rebuild your life and so forth. Well after that, you know, they're with me about a month and a half. Loved my parents to death, but everybody knows people stay with you that long. You know, you're kind of like it's time. To go to put it together. So they go home and you know, very fortunately, you know, the house it was hit a butt. You know, as anybody knows, Katrina kind of veered off at the last. Not that no ones didn't get destroyed here, but where they lived, they were very fortunate. There was you know, roof damage. There was you know, minimal damage to the house and didn't go above the uh the tub or anything. The water actually didn't even go into the house and went up to like the door and so forth. Well, they get back home and you know, I'm like check it out, and there it is. They had water, and then they'll had the water to start, you know, putting their life back together. They have water to you know, drink, they had it for cooking, they had for flushing, you know, all these other things that you need the water for. Is you know, a people don't know how much water you actually need. And they're great and it actually worked and they were probably thrilled to have it. Yes, very much. That that is. That's wonderful. So what I was absolutely most excited about was to learn where your products made You want to tell them. The United States but not only the United States. It's made in Texas. I take a lot of a lot of pride in that anybody that's done any manufacturing in the United States, it is a uh it's it's very hard. It's very easy to you know, go overseas or or or or you know, it's it's it's it's actually hard to find people to that make certain things and parts and pieces. But the one thing I'm most proud about is that not only do we make the the butders here, we actually have the UH State School vasion to say we puts together for us, which is near and dear to me. And UH I told him, I don't care how big or whatever happens in the future, I will always keep some business there because it's it's kind of really cool to go in there and hear stories about people putting your kid together. You know, there's the guy that they'll have UH workshops that that certain of 'em like to do certain things, and some of them don't like to do things, and and and there's this one guy that he loves putting the little locks in the bag with the little twist tie. And every time I see him, he just he just lights up with this huge smile, and it's just like, you know, it's kind of cool that, you know, he he enjoys doing it. Didn't like to do anything else there, but he likes to do that one thing. And every time I'm low on parts, they call me, like, you make sure you got enough for him, Make sure you got enough for him, Like I will always make sure I have enough for him. So it's really. Cool in that great Now, you know what, that's the product I can get behind and get excited about. You sent me one so I could look at it. I love the way it's packaged. It's packaged so economically. It doesn't you know, I'm thinking. I'm thinking it's going to be this huge, big old thing, like maybe a waterbedliner or something. I mean, that's what I'm picturing, you know, And I thought it would be big and heavy, but it's not. It comes in this nice box. If you saw my video, you saw the two different products I was showing. One was in the smaller box. What's in that smaller box, David? The smaller box is the liner, the pump, and the locking mechanism. So basically what you do is take the bladder, lining the tub there's a spout, you put it over the faucet, fill it up, don't overfill it, and then once you do that, disconnect it. Lock the locking mechanism. It's very simple. It's like rolling the sleeve, you know, on your shirt sleeve, like rolling it down over the plastic, putting the lid on it, inserting the pump, and then just pump it out when you need it. And the one thing I just want to let people know, a lot of people, you know, worried about Okay, well, well how big is it? How much water does it hold? It? Can the bladder's forty by eighty, You can actually a hold a lot more water. Don't say how much, David, don't say. I'm not gonna say how much. But I'm just so because a lot of people ask me why I have a jacuzzie tub or I have, you know, my whirlpool tub? Is this big? Can I use it in there? You know? Anything that's totally that that's fine. Just you throw it in there, you know, but I tell you sixty five gallons of water. I tell you sixty five gallons of water, because the average tub holds seventy sixty five. It is just safe fill it up, don't ever overfill it, and that's what we stick with. Okay, Well, David, I just told you not to say how much it holds because that was one of the questions for the prizes. All Right, I'll give you another question and I'll make. Okay, well, make one up right now. And here's what we're gonna do. It has to be it has to be something that they probably would have seen on the website. So think of that and go ahead and ask it and hear, what's the deal. The first person that calls in with the correct answer to our question, we're just gonna let you. We're just gonna go right through them. If you don't have the right answer, we're gonna let you go. And uh so, David, what question? All right, I'm filling it up, and says we know it's sixty five. How long does it take to fill? There you go, first person calls in with the answer about how long does on the website he tells you about how long it takes to feel? How long? How long? Is that? Good question? So so there's that one liner, the pump and the siphe in that small box, and that box really to me. David looks like about the size of the wrapping uh uh, you know a roll of wrapping paper and it weighs about that much too. I mean, it just would be no problem to store stand up in the corner of a closet, no problem storing it. Yes, you you take it, You put it your pantry wherever you know, nice area whatever that's you know, it's not going to be disturbed, and you just you know, set up forget it and when you need it, hopefully you don't need it, you pull it out, you feel it up, and you know, don't know what the situation is. You evacuate, then you know when you come back, or you know, if if you can't come back, it's you know, if you come back, it's there. Hopefully it'll it'll do the shop. It's going to be there. I'll have that water you. Filled it up. Hey, David, we need to remind them the number is three four seven two zero two zero two two eight. Don't write the answer in the chat room, call in and tell us. First person with the correct answer will get the first aquepied. Okay, so David, I got a bigger box. It's just slightly bigger. Maybe, Yeah, I'm not quite twice as big as a small one. Is I'm looking at it right now. What's in the bigger box? Great? Thank you. It's the Deluxe Kit. And one of the things that you learn as you're you're you're you're building a product is you know the audience, the consumer. Those are the people that tell you what they want. They tell you what they need. And one of the things everybody tells me that I got more than one tough and I'm like, yeah, it's a good idem me too. And you know, one of the things I like to do is he's kind of bundle. I think bundling is where people when they hear that word, they see value. So I'm like, well you want to put in there? And I fought three you know, so we call that the Deluxe Kid. We put three liners in there, and we released it a couple of years ago and it's been a hit. Most people love buying the Kid. One of the things I love most about is that, you know, some people, I've had stories where they filled it up, they had their pump in lock and you know what, there was a stormers actually want to hit Houston, and one of them, the neighbors, gave the other two to their neighbors to fill their tubs. Now they didn't have the pumping right, but they had extra water too for their families. And you know that's to me, that's amazing to hear stories like that that you know what, here is I fill it up. I got a tugs. A lot of people like what if I'm gonna bait, I need my tubs or if you want to want to fill one, I want to fill two. Doesn't matter. You got a. Neighbor, you know what, here's one? Why don't you fill it up? And you know I got extra water? And you know, hey, David, we could We've got we got four people in the queue right now. Let's bring Kelly in and see if she's got the answer for us. Hey, Kelly, how are you? I'm wonderful. How are you guys? Really great? Good? How long do you think it takes? How long you think it takes the film that Ben? Kelly? Ten to fifteen minutes? You just got a what podcast? I'm so excited? Thanks so much. Do you think it's something you can use? Yes, I have three girls and we've been prepping for about a year and a half now, and that is something I definitely need. Isn't that great? You can scratch it off your list now. Yes, I so appreciate it. Oh, you're so welcome. Thank you for calling. In, Thank you, thank you very much. And can I lead into just a little more about that real quick? You sure can't let me just say one thing. The other people are on the line to answer that question. You can hang up and call again in for the second question, David, go right ahead. I want to say ten to fifteen. That's just kind of what we've we've researched and found. It depends on the water flow, of course, so you know, if it's going real slow, or you know, if you're in an area that everybody's filling up water at the same time, you may not get that same thing. Also though, too when you're filling up these blinders, that there's air in your water, so sometimes you might have to burp it. I've have people say, and it just depends on the water. For some people rocket it in there and then it's got so much air and water fills up with it, and they're like, I have air or in it? What do I do? And it's like you can burp it like you would a waterbed or something. So I just wanted to point that out too, But the answer to the question was at ten fifteen, So thank you. Perfect, perfect, Well let's do another one. Let's do one more. People guys in chat room, you're ready. Oh look they're woohoo and congratulating. They're all excited. That's awesome, Kelly, good jobs. Okay, here's the second one. Okay, I'm gonna tweak the question that you gave the answer to David, and just see if they were paying attention on the website. Okay, David already told you that the liner would hold us about sixty five gallons of water. On the website, what did it say that the standard bathtub held how many gallons? That's a good one on. David, Yes, absolutely, yeah, just see. If they're paying attention. Call in. The number is hold on. I gotta scroll up to see it, or you can put it in there for me, dB if you would. The number is three four seven two zero two zero two two eight. So call in. If you were on the website and you saw that the bag, the bag that you put in your tub, the liner will hold approximately sixty five gallons, But how many gallons does the standard bathtub hold? All right, I'm gonna wait to see who's gonna call in. Let's see. Okay, so David filled it. I've come back home after the storm or the emergency or whatever, and my bag's full in my bathtub and it's closed. How hard I mean or what do I have to do to get it out of there? How do I work the siphon? Is it just you tell me? You tell me, It's just a simple manual siphon pump. You start, you know, pumped the bowl as you would and you'll start the water flow on the top. There's a little gage that you can kind of start the flow or you know, determine how fast you want it to go, and then you can tighten it up, which you'll cut the air off and stop the flow of water. And one thing that I do that I add in my kit as an extra is a cork. And if this is good, I'm glad you brought this up, because some people say the cork doesn't fit in the top. The cork's not actually made for the blue locking mechanism where you insert the pump. The blue the corks for the end of the pump, because what happens is if you're pumping out, it could continue to kind of drip if it didn't stop it. Oh oh, and then what happens if. You have if you don't have it put away correctly? You don't want anything any insect or something kind of crawling in there. So we've added a little cork in there that you can kind of put in there that it stops it for hopefully nothing you know, gets in or whatever. And I love that. Okay, good, We've got a third little piggy in the queue. Like that third little piggy? Are you there? Hi? I am here? How are you? How? I'm doing great? Say hi to David? Hi, David, how are you? I'm doing great? How you doing? Love your. So you were paying? Were you paying attention to a little piggy? How many? How many gallons do you think the standard bathtub. Holes seventy gowns in water? What do you think? David? I think that's great. You just wanted the second kit. How you feel about that? I feel fantastic. One more thing to check off online. Rist I know, isn't that great? Okay? Well, you stay on the line and the engineer will get your address so that we can get that right out to you. Thank you. Both so much. Yeah, thanks to playing along. See you later. Yeah, David, you know what we of course, I'm from Southeast Texas. You know we've always evacuated for her. Well not always, sometimes we stayed, but we always filled the bathtub. And yeah, the thought, even after scrubbing it and bleaching, is the thought of drinking out that is just out of that. It's just not very appetizing. No, And you know, it's funny because that's been set since, you know, forever, Like I said, as a small child, I remember it and they take and it's it's a good ideals. But that water was never really for potable water, was extra water for using for flushing or whatever needs you need it for. And now having it for kind of both is just you know, it's double. You know, you don't have to worry, not only just the bleaching, but the one of the things that I noticed a lot of people. I've heard stories that they fill it up and they do leave. Well, how good are those drains and how good can you seal it? What happens when yeah. It drips. I've had stories of people saying, Wow, what a great product I've evacuated for this hurricane. I came home and found an empty tob. You know, now I don't have to worry about that. One of the other things that you know you need to know is that you know the backflow. What happens if you that backflow come You know from the valves it wasn't sealed really strong, and you can have that shoot into the water and then the water you have. You also the beauty of the bladder being in the tub. You have an overflow valve, which all tubs do, and what it does is gonna cover up that overflow valve to make you bring it up to that higher, higher level. Because even if you you have to try to close up that overflow valve, which some are good, some don't. That's why I got kind of standard for you know, how to do it. That's why the bladder is bigger than what it needed, because you to try to research and figure out every tub on the plane. I've had people send me pictures of everything from claw footed tubs to triangle chacuozie tubs, going will it work? And I'm like, it's a bag. You fill it up, it should work. It's gonna expand in. Everybody's gonna be bigger than that tub. But the plastic's gonna hit up against you know, your walls, and that's what's just gonna contain just a it's a it's a whole thing. I just, you know, want to keep reminding people. I can't reiterate enough. It's it's temporary, it's disposable. That's what it's designed for. So hey, let me let me let me ask you this. Somebody left a comment on the video, the promo video made for the show tonight, and they said something about I think their concern was the little valve, the little uh, the little valve that lives lifts up and down for you to drain your tub. And they said something about you might want to put something over that so it doesn't puncture the bag. That's not really a concern, is it. I've never seen it in the years that I've done it. Uh, if it does, you know, let me know. I mean, of course it's been on what the situation. It's it's plastic. It's gonna hit I mean less, it's sharp. Yeah, it's exactly press up against it. Now that was my thought. It's just gonna mold around it. It's just gonna mold around. I can't speak for every tub, but you know, if if yours is pointy and has a sharp you stick your hand on it and it hurts, Yeah, it might not work, and you wouldn't want to fill it up to that level or remove it or do something else. I don't, I won't. You know, it's I wouldn't know what to tell you there. But if it's an average one, I've done it in so many different tubs, I haven't seen. One ever do it. So Okay, nor Rhin in the chat is there are there any questions that you've seen in the chat room that we need to answer and we need to ask David. I've kind of been trying to watch, but I might I might not have caught every single one. If there's anything there, just type it for me so that so that we can ask him. Okay, David, I know you want to reunite with your family. Let's ask one more question. If they were paying attention to the last segment, you answered this, But we're gonna let somebody call in and give the answer. According to the Aqua Podcait website, is the tubliner reusable? And I tell you what, if you answer it, you're gonna win. But I'm gonna add a follow up to it and if you answered, then I'm gonna throwing a bonus. Oh hey, how about that? So go ahead and give us a call in at three four seven to zero two zero two two eight. Is the tubliner reusable? Okay, David, let me see what is the best way? I know, there's probably several ways if they if they want one of these, what should they do to go about get in? One great question. There's a lot of people that now carry the product. It's been real interested in the last two years, to say the least. And the price is anywhere from you know, the we we recommend the twenty four to the twenty nine ninety five retail and right now Amazon's got them on sale for nineteen ninety five. You know, run the twenty dollars mark cheapen than dirt. Sales it around twenty dollars price points, and we sell it for twenty four ninety nine. However, we also have a deluxe kit that's thirty four to ninety nine, So some people say, I'd rather pay a little bit more and get a bundle that way. Got three liners supposed to just the one. So the shoppers are very savvy. I tell you to go online see what the best price is. I'm afraid to buy them for my distributors before you buy them for me. And that's about that. Okay, let's see we have Nonny in the queue to answer the question as to whether the tubliner is reusable or not. Noughny, come on in. Hi there, good evening. How are you. I am wonderful, How are you? I'm good? So you tell me. Does the website recommend reusing the liner? Absolutely not? Okay, thank you very much. A big, big, big question. Exactly now, if you can tell me why is it not reusable, I'll give you your choice of a bonus prize. Well, because of. Possible contamination. Good a little bit more of what happens if you put water in it and then you try to get it out or you try to dry it maybe jeez. I know I'm being a little kicky. The contamination works, it'd be and here's the deal. You can't really completely dry it and you don't want to risk that. So that's why one of the things we did, and you said contaminate, So you got it right, and I might've been leading down the wrong path. So you're still gonna win, and it's it's that's what I like to tell people. No, it's like to tell people A great thing about the product is we offer replacement liners. So I've had people go, you know what, I'm not gonna pay that's twenty dollars or twenty five dollars. That's way too much money. You know. I've had people going there and just buy a replacement liner. You want to just buy a replacement liner for ten bucks. It's worth me to pay ten bucks not to clean my tub or try to. And that's so some people understand that you like to be savvy and save money. And if you just want to buy a replacement liner, if it works for you, hey, that's that. So thank you for da. What's her choice is the bonus prize. All right? So your choice is you've already won the kit, so you can do the kit and a T shirt, or you can trade them back to here and I'll give you a deluxe kit. Oh, I think I'll go with a deluxe kit. All right. I'm I'm gonna send you a T shirt. So thank you very much. You've got the whole battle of wax. Honey. I'm so glad you called in, aren't you? Oh I am, I am, I believe me, I studied, I have notes. That's so great. I'm so glad you call him. Played along. Have a good evening. Yes, thank you, thank you David. We have we Tree in the queue. She has a question for you. Okay, hey we Tree, come on in. Hello girls, how are you ben? I've got two questions after the discussion you just had with Nanny. Uh. The number one question that I had, uh is is he going to give all of us preppers a discount? He does have a secret. We treat There is a secret. And if you buy the replacement and actually this is funny, I'm gonna share us with the preppers because the prepper actually approached me with it, and I'm surprised nobody's blogged about it, so I might get myself in trouble here. But if you buy the replacement liner and the extra pump and lock, it comes out the toll of the twenty four ninety nine or twenty four ninety five came every day, it comes out to like twenty five dollars. Basically, instead of buying it for twenty five dollars and having to pay the shipping, you get free shipping cool. So that's my little secret. Don't tell anybody he said it. You can tell me Prepper test, clount, Prepper discount. There you go, Thank you Weed for calling in. Yeah, well, make sure that you put it in the chat room or put it on your site for the preppers, you know, because I do take the information that we get and I posted over at Facebook and several of the prepper groups that I'm in, and that's when I really see the tails start going for people. So my next question have in regard to reusing it. What about you know, because I know with a lot of preppers we use clorox to stertilize and stuff like that. What about adding a couple of drops of clorox and there? Would that not sterilize it? You know? And then that's a good question. But when it comes to the water, I play it one hundred percent safe. I'm going to tell you just to make sure to be safe, not reusable. And for a ten dollar price point to get a second one, it's kind of cost effective to do you really want to go through that trouble or even take the risk. And most people that use your regular water munsipal water can't speak for. All of them. But check with whoever your water comes from and ask them quality in it. You got it because most and that's and that's another good thing. I'm glad you brought it up, because some water is small amounts of Chlorine's already a municipal water. So depending on how you want on the store it, I'm going to tell you that I wouldn't recommend it. I would get a replacement liner for ten bucks, just to be safe. Okay, that's a good point. Okay, Well, I thank you very much for for answering those questions. Thank you for calling in. Good talking to you. Hey, David, Bye, David. You know what I'm thinking about when when when people talk about drying that thing out is I'm thinking about a long time ago when I used to store my kid's little blow up swimming pool, you know, and you think you had it all dry, and you know, you put it up for several weeks, and then you unfolded it again and it just smelled gross. And it wasn't It wasn't that you hadn't cleaned it out. It's just that some of the water got trapped in there, and it's just it's disgusting. It's exactly and I think that's the best way. I mean, I wouldn't risk ten dollars. I wouldn't repose to replacement Liner. I wouldn't. It's just it's not even worth it. One of the things that you know we've done right after Katrina, my mom, you know, she trained it, used all the water, shared with whoever needed whatever, and then she's at the end of them, She's like, what do I do? And I was like, well, you got a big trash bag now, so you know, cut up, use it as a trash bag. There you go, there you go. Good. Yeah, excellent. Well, David, I think you've answered all of our questions. You've been a terrific guest. I really appreciate you. I really appreciate you coming on es say please, just getting your wife back after a week. I know you're anxious to reconnect there. We're excited about your product. We're excited one that's made in the USA. I'm excited because it's made in Texas, because I'm a Texas girl. But the other important thing is that you've kept the price reasonable and you're having people make it that I want to support. I want to support the people who are making your product, so I'm excited about it. I'm so glad I found it, and we hope to talk to you again sometimes. Great. Thank you very much, and thank you everybody. Thank you so much. Good have a good evening you too, Bye bye bye bye. Wow. That was great. I love getting all my questions answered. I love talking about his products, and am thrilled that he brought Uh. He was generous enough to bring some prizes to give away. I know you're glad to get them too. U. He is just as personable as he seems. He will include a business card in your product. If you have any questions, you can call him or email him out an outstanding fellow, thrilled to have him on. So let's just recap here just a little bit. I want to remind you here at the bottom of the hour that you're at American Preppers Radio. We broadcast every night of the week. We have a new show starting on Wednesday at six pm Central called The Lost Art of Prepping, and I'll remind you to come back tomorrow night to visit with Karen, who is the host of In Time of Disaster, and she will have plenty of information for you. Let's see I am going to look for any calls in the Okay, it doesn't look like we have anybody lined up right now. I promised that during the second half of the hour that we would talk about canning issues and canning questions, because I know that you're right in the middle of it. If you are a gardening person like I am, you are neck deep. I have a whole table full of produce that I have to process tomorrow, eggplant, squash, potatoes, and tomatoes. My canner is going three to four days a week, and I'm busy, busy, busy. I'm getting lots of questions on canning, and I want to address here with all of you my number one canning question. And it wouldn't be what I would consider a traditional canning question, but it is a question I get all the time, and it's on my video on canning butter. The question is I have canned it just like you told me to can it. I have shaken it for the last thirty minutes. It's now cooling off and it's still liquid. What did I do wrong? And I just want to state here and go on the record that you didn't do anything wrong, especially if you're canning during the summer. If I put a stick of butter out on the counter right now, it kind of lays down after about an hour because it's so warm. And that butter that you have canned is really no different. It has been melted, so it's not exactly in the same state it was as when you bought it. But if you want it to get firm, all you have to do is put in your refrigerator, and I guarantee you we'll do more than get firm. It will get hard, So you haven't done anything wrong. If you're canning butter and you're worried that it's still liquid after several hours, it's just how it is. If you want to firm it up, put it in the refrigerator. I hope that will put some of your minds at ease. Before I go on with talking about your tanning question. Pokey, the Patriots and the que Pokey, if you'll come on in, I'll answer your question or try to. Yes, how are you, Poky, Hey, good cats? How are you? I'm great. I had been panning my shed off this week and I had I tried BlackBerry jelly. My husband wanted to get blackberries. Then we went out and got blackberries and tried BlackBerry jelly for the first time. And this is the second, well maybe the third or fourth time I've tried jelly. And the last two came out good because I did your strawberry pineapple recipe on your site, and the time before that I had done one in my five Carolina Extension book and it didn't come out very good. It was one of. These have a narrow red pepper, you know jelly's, and that one is so kind of runny. Well, my biggest problem this is now my BlackBerry jelly is real. It's still runny, it's liquid. How long do you think I need to wait to see if that's going to set up? And if it doesn't, if it's still liquidy, should I just go ahead and take it out and reprocess it. Let me tell you ahead of time, I did not use the pectin because it didn't call for it and only call for sugar with the BlackBerry. So I hope that gives you enough. To go on. Okay, one or two things. Either I would wait three weeks. That's about the time when you can expect it to set up. If it hadn't set up after about three three weeks, it was probably not. It's probably not going to the Other thing is if you don't want BlackBerry syrup and you really want BlackBerry jelly, then yes, you can reprocess it and you can either cook it longer. But what I really recommend is that you go ahead and you've already incorporated the sugar. So since you've incorporated the sugar, you would have to use the liquid pecked in it. And you can try that if you want to. How much of it did you do we dived? What would do Perry's four gallons or two gallons or how many? How many things of black gray did we do? Well? I mean how much how much jelly did you end up with? Oh? How many jellies do we end up? Plus twelve? Six? About eighteen? I think keat eighteen? Okay, that's a lot. That's probably that's probably more than black That's probably more BlackBerry syrup you than you'll want. Yeah, you could reprocess that. You would just need to use the liquid pect and since the sugar has already been incorporated, uh, and probably just cooking it down just a little bit more and then go ahead and putting that end and you should be good to go. Okay, and then the lipid pect And that's how do I know how to gauge how much lipid tect and put in based on what I've got there in those jells like I've got I did the half pint jars. So if I've got let's say eighteen to twenty of those, how many how much liquid pecked in? Lineed? Okay, you know what I'm not. I don't have my chart with me right here. But if you will, uh, if you will go on to oh the pectin website, if you'll go on to to Soto's website, they will have the information there. You probably won't want to process that all at one time? You didn't you didn't process at all originally one time? Did you. Did you process at all at one time? Did you process everything at one time? In other words, did did you take all the all the blackberries? And did you? Hey, Toky, let's let let me tell you this on that on that, on the website, it will tell you how what is the maximum amount of fruit you should process in one batch? Follow that and then however much liquid how many pouches they say to put in it. That's what to do because sometimes sometimes when you're talking about pectin and you start doubling and tripling a batch. It doesn't matter how much you use. It's not going to set up anyway. So follow their guidelines and they'll walk you around. Oh okay. The other question I had for you too is can you actually take something like if you had leftover tomatoes that you you know, you've you've got, You're just tired because you've done so many status of the day and you take a batch and you put it in the refrigerator. Can you take that and heat it up to boiling and then go ahead and can it the next day? Oh? Absolutely, I do it all the time. Okay, yep. And then problem The third question I have for you is, let's say that you know, my canner whole like seven quarts at a time. If I wanted to do the whole batch and just have it sitting on the counter, can I do that? Have it ready to go in as long as my jars have been. You know, what do you call it? You know, heat it up in the oven for two hundred and twenty five degrees. Can't think of a word of that. You mean you mean you've already got you've got one? I'm batch in the canner, and you've got another one that are filled and ready to go on the counter. Yeah, can you do that? Can you have them sitting on the counter ready to go? What are you talking about? What kind of food are you talking about sitting there? Like tomatoes? Yeah, tomatoes are gonna be fine. I wouldn't be doing it with beef stew or chilli or anything like that, because you're gonna be talking about a ninety minute wait time in the canner. But if you're talking about so you're talking about a boiling water bath with tomatoes, and. We're talking about pressure, I didn't mind an a fosher cannter. Okay, So we're just talking about a few minutes in the canner. Your only problem is getting your The time is going to be getting the jars out of the canner, letting it cool enough now here. You're not gonna want to say if those jars are set on the counter for twenty minutes, you're gonna need to lift the rack up in the canner, set those jars there, let the steam come up from the bottom and heat them up a little bit before you lure them right in that boiling water. Okay, because they will have cooled off some unless unless you turn your oven down very very very very low and are and just stick them in there as a holding place just to keep them warm until you get them in the canner, which is my recommendation. Yeah, no, I thought about that. Do you take your lids off and when you do that and then put your lids on. Before you go at? Actually I would, actually I would just well you could do that, sure you could. You could put your jars in there and just keep them warm, and then as you pull them out, just put your hot bands and lids on them. Then just get them right in the canner. Excellent, excellent way to do it. Yeah, okay, yep, all right, super. I love your I love your site and I've been a supper for them a long time, so you and your are the best. Thank you so much. I'm so glad you called in an see you Okay, bye, bye bye? Who know queen is in the queue? Queen? Come on in, Hi, kat Hey. Hi, I have a question. I know you tell us never leave your pressure canner, never leave it, But what happens if you just leave it for just a few minutes and it goes below your pressure? Your ten pounds do you then add a little time, more times, no book. No girlfriend. You start over. And so if that happens, if you're canning chili, and that happens at the seventy five minute mark, you start over for a whole new ninety minutes. Oh I had no idea. Yeah, So here's what you do. You pull yourself a nice cool something to drink, You get your favorite book, are your are your favorite magazine, You pull up a chair, and you sit right there. That's what I do. Okay, are you are? You can pay your eleven year old to do it. I've done that too. All right, thanks, I really need you to know that. Sure, okay, bye bye. Oh my goodness, that's right. I heard an old timey prepper today say that she walks away from her canner. It's a little a little scary to me. I don't do that. A couple of things I've seen lately that kind of concerned me. I saw a video where somebody was canning up all their leftovers that were in the refrigerator. Whatever they hadn't eaten. They canned it up and put it in put it up in a canner and called it good. Just wanting to let you know, I don't think that's a really good idea. Foods need to be canned properly. They're not all the same. All the leftovers and your refrigerator would not be processed at the same time. So just wanted to let you know if you saw that, you need to rethink that a little bit. One more thing I want to address. I can squash this week, and I've had a couple of people say I thought you couldn't can squash. Well, a lot of the USDA websites say that you can't can squash, but that is not true, and their reason behind it is because one, they haven't done the research on it, so they just can't say, which really bugs me because you know, we spend millions and millions and billions of dollars on thing. Can somebody please do a study to find out if it's safe to can Squashuh. The other reason is because they said they used to have the documentation on it, but they don't anymore and they can't find it, so they don't know. I mean, is that the lamest thing you ever heard? I can squash. I would not mash up squash and then can it to where it was a solid that's the same reason they say that you can't can pumpkin because it's too dense. But if you cut your pumpkin in chunks, and you slice or cube your squash, you most certainly can can it. If you would like to call in, we have just a few minutes and the phone number is I need to write this down instead of having to scroll up three four seven two zero two zero two two eight. Now, there are not many things I think you can't can. I do not. I can solid mashed pumpkin. I do not can like chocolate Sunday sauce, anything that's vents like that. I also do not can cake. There is enough evidence for me to suggest that that is not a safe practice. There are lots of people that do it, lots of people who do it who don't have who don't generally use safe canning practices. In my opinion, if you have thought about doing that, I would reconsider it. They're just or no safe guidelines. My other thing is how hard is it to throw together if you're gonna can a box cake? Is there anything easier than just throwing that together and popping it in the oven? It takes maybe like ten minutes, so if you are considering doing that, and I know many people have done it and have not died, But if you are considering doing that, I would really recommend that you do your research on that. You know that I am very liberal in my views on canning, and I can some things that lots of people think that you probably can't can, like butter and milk and squash and those kind of things. But you really need to reconsider cake if that is something you're thinking about. Somebody has asked me this week, can you can breakfast sausage? You most certainly can. You can either cook it like you would ground meat, just crumble it up and put it in your jar, or you can pad it into patties and then brown them and then stack them in the jar. Either way those work. Some people have some kind of some kind of opposition to the sage that's in the sausage and say that it gets stronger when you can, and I have just not had that problem at all. So if you would like to can break the sausage, you certainly can. And I will direct you also to to somebody who I really look up to it and admire, and I trust every single word she says, and that is Jackie Clay from Backwoodshome dot com. And I saw where she posted on her blog today on her question answer blog, something that I found very interesting. I have never done it before. But somebody asked her the question saying that when they can hamburger meat, you know, you cook it, you cook it, you crumble it up, and you cook it till it's brown, and you put it in the jar, and then the recommendation always is that you cover it with water or broth and then process it. And somebody says, you know, it just doesn't taste the same, and that is true. It is much much softer than regular ground meat that you just cook. And Jackie said she does not cover it with water or broth. She cooks it, she browns it, she puts it in the jar, packs it in and put wipes the rim, puts the lid on, and she processes it with no liquid in it. I cannot wait to try it, she says it it's exactly like if you just browned it in a skillet on the oven. Uh. And I cannot wait to try it. I have never heard anybody say that that was okay. She's done it for years, and I trust her, so I can't wait. Uh, Prepper Kelly is in the queue. Let's go see what Prepper Kelly's question is. Kelly there, Yes, hey, Kats, how are ye him? You so much? I just want to say, well, I appreciate you saying that, thank you. Yes, I've just had a quick question. I make homemade macaroni and cheese a lot, and I make the homemade cheese sauce with the roue and adding the milk of cream. And is it safe to can the cheese sauce? No? No, no, you can't do that. No. I've I've seen Bear Prepper canned cheese by itself, and I'm pretty confident that that's okay. I just don't think I would feel good about the cheese sauce you thicking it with fly right? Yes? Yes, no, no, sorry, there's just no safe way. There's no there's no guidelines for that. Right, Okay, Well, I appreciate it. I'm sorry, okay, okay, all right, all right, that's a that's a really good question. Somebody asked me recently. Do I really have to add that lemon juice to my tomatoes when I can them? Aren't tomatoes high enough? An acid and I've got a kind of like a two part answer to that. To that question, yes, if you are growing, in my opinion, if you are growing a hybrid tomato, you must add the lemon juice because they have bred a lot of the acid out of the tomato. So you know that. Uh, tomatoes, JEMs, jellies, those are all considered high acid foods, so they can be processed in a boiling water bath. So in order to do that, you need to raise the acid level of those tomatoes. Now, if you're going to process your tomatoes in a pressure canner, you don't have to add it. Here's the other thing. I grow some heirloom varieties that the acid has not been bred out of, and I do not add the lemon juice to those. So if you are sure you are growing an heirloom, you know you've purchased your seeds from somebody who sells heirlooms, you know that it is, then I just got to tell you personally, I don't add it to them. Okay, Oh my gosh, the time has gone so quickly. G Man's given me the three minute notice. Oh my goodness. Okay, so I've covered tomatoes. Let's see. Oh somebody Today's Oh somebody sent g Man an email saying, I'm concerned about the shelf life of vegetables and the cans that I buy at the grocery store. Can you take the food out of the can and put it in a sterile drawer and recan it in your pressure canner? And my answer to that would be no, you should do that. The food is much better off being left where it is. And I'm I'll post the video for you tomorrow where I showed Prepper A. We found a jar of apricot mango apricot baby food that was from I think nineteen ninety two, and she found it the cabinet yesterday when we were cleaning out. I'm trying to get all my chores done before school starts, and she ate it. She asked, is it okay? And I said, well, let's see. I just use it as a time to teach her. I said, let's look at the let's look at the container before we open it. Is it bulging? And she said no, it's not bulging. I said, does it appear to have leaked anywhere? Is there any compromise in the container? She said no, And I said does it and the seal looks tight. She said yes. I said, go ahead and pull the seal back. It was one of those little plastic containers. So she pulled the seal back. I said, now what should she do? Should you do? She said, I should look at the color. I said, what does the color look like? She said, well, it's a little darker than usual. I said, that's right, it is a little darker. I said what next. She said, well, I should smell it. I said that's right. So she smelled it. She said, ooh, it smells great. I said, okay, then give it a little bitty taste and see if it tastes right. So she put a little bitty taste in her mouth. She said, it tastes delicious. I said, I think you're good to go. And she ate down the whole thing. And I'm happy to tell you that she's still with us today, and she's very happy because there were actually two in the in the cupboards, so she's going to eat the other one as well. So that is my advice to you. If the can looks good, it hasn't been compromised. There's no leaking, there's no rust, there's no bulging. That's your first test. Then you open it up and you do the smell. Does it smell good? Did it spurt when you opened it, because that would tell you that some gases had built up. If that hasn't happened, then you take a little taste. Does it taste good, then you're good to go. So what I'm telling the person who wrote in is those cans, even if they have expired, are probably very good. I've eaten can goods that are twelve years old, no problem, as long as it met that test. If it met all that criteria, I certainly would not would not recand those vegetables anyway. I hope that answers your questions. Jim just said, if preparaees it, be sure to burper. Yeah, she might not be real happy with that. You guys, it's been a great show tonight. I've enjoyed being with you. I've enjoyed kind of watching your chat and following along just a little bit, even though I'm not fast enough to type to you. I want to thank David, who I'm sure is not listening now. He's probably reacquainting himself with his sweet wife and his baby, and I want to thank him for coming on the show. I've had a terrific time, and I hope you have to please join Karen tomorrow night, and we'll be back here next Thursday night with another edition of The Homestead Honey Hour Night. 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