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pre-HeatIng emptY JarS
1.
While you’re preparing your favorite recipe, the Appliance can pre-heat your clean
empty jars. To pre-heat, first remove Inner Pot from Appliance. Remove Rack and set
aside. Next, fill your empty inner pot with hot/warm tap water to the fill line. Volume
of water to be filled: 48 oz or 6 cups water, marked by the fill line on the Inner Pot.
2.
Return Inner Pot, with water up to the fill line, to the Appliance by slowly lowering
the pot back into the Appliance Base. Place Rack back into Inner Pot with the wire
base facing down contacting the Inner Pot base. Place jars atop Rack. Set preserving
lids and bands aside in your work space. Ensuring the gasket is secure in place,
lower the Lid. Close and lock Appliance Lid. See section for Opening and Closing
Your freshTECH Appliance Lid on page 12.
3.
PRESS the
pre-Heat
button on the touch-pad, the red light will start flashing.
Now press
Start
and the red Pre-Heating light will remain illuminated. The
Appliance will automatically begin sensing the internal temperature to pre-heat
your jars. In the meantime, you can continue preparing your recipe.
4.
Jars will be pre-heated (in approximately 12 minutes) indicated by the flashing
green Ready light, and the green status bars on the display are fully illuminated
from left to right. Keep jars in Appliance with Lid closed until you’re ready to fill
them with your freshly prepared food. You will notice the display screen reverts
to the Welcome message. The green light will continue to flash until you program
it for preserving.
5.
As long as the Appliance Lid is closed, but not locked, the pre-heated empty jars
should stay warm for at least 1 hour.
do not, however, allow the pre-heated jars
to stay longer than 1 hour in the Inner pot as the appliance will eventually cool
and the internal pre-heat temperature could fall below a safe threshold. Simply
pre-heat empty jars a second time if 1 hour elapses from initial pre-heating.
HoW to uSe tHe appLIanCe
preSerVIng freSHLY made food
1.
Prepare your food as per the recipe instructions in the freshTECH Recipe Book.
By now your empty jars must be pre-heated and ready to be filled, indicated by
the flashing green Ready light.
Important note WHen fILLIng pre-Heated JarS WItH freSHLY prepared
food:
To maximize efficiency, and to minimize temperature difference between your
pre-heated jars and hot foods when filling, we recommend the following process
when filling jars with food:
• Open the Appliance Lid and remove only ONE EMPTY JAR AT A TIME while filling,
keeping the Lid closed as much as possible. This prevents additional heat loss and
temperature reduction.
• Fill the first jar with food using a Ball
®
brand canning funnel, adjust two piece cap
on to the jar and place it back in the Inner Pot.
• Then remove the second empty jar, close Appliance Lid and fill with food. Place
back inside the Inner Pot, and so on. DO NOT take all empty pre-heated jars out
of the Inner Pot at once – as that will cool the jars quicker to room temperature.
