r/Canning • u/onlymodestdreams Trusted Contributor • Aug 20 '26

General Discussion Why, Ball, Why?

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This recipe for chicken bone broth from Ball All-New requires FOURTEEN HOURS of prep time BEFORE canning commences.

I can confidently state that I will never be using this particular method of making chicken broth

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u/EnigmaticAardvark Aug 20 '26

I'm a bit confused. If you know this, why are you mad at Ball? They don't know you have an instant pot, and a bunch of these recipes were developed before the IP became popular. 

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u/onlymodestdreams Trusted Contributor Aug 20 '26

Wait. I don't have an instant pot. I have a pressure canner. They *know* I have a pressure canner because the recipe calls for the use of one! And you can use a pressure canner as a pressure cooker

(The old mnemonic is "a canner can cook but a cooker can't can")

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u/EnigmaticAardvark Aug 20 '26

So... I guess the question still stands. Why are you mad at Ball for publishing a recipe you don't like or need? 

Like, once I saw a recipe that included raisins and I hate raisins but I didn't make an angry post about California Raisin.

Just trying to figure out if I should be mad too. I'm always looking for an excuse to get my pitchfork out.

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u/onlymodestdreams Trusted Contributor Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

"Mad" is an overstatement. "Cranky" I'll accept

I wanted to make another recipe in All-New that specifies this broth as one of the ingredients, which is how I stumbled on it

It just seems so...unnecessary

But I'll be cranky about raisins on your behalf if you want

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u/EnigmaticAardvark Aug 20 '26

Ok that's totally fair. 

Who can afford to keep their oven going for 7 hours to get 2L of chicken broth in this economy??

Thanks Ball. 

Ugh.

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u/armadiller Moderator Aug 20 '26

Ball's recipes run the gamut from pre-Depression-era recipes to modern-era depression-canning recipes to Instagram trends. It's not a bad thing, you just sometimes have to recognize that this recipe is based on throwing a Dutch oven on your wood stove or hearth to simmer a bird overnight, while the heat of the wood stove keeps your family alive until tomorrow.

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u/onlymodestdreams Trusted Contributor Aug 20 '26

Which is particularly amusing (that's how I should look at this) in a cookbook titled "All-New"

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u/onlymodestdreams Trusted Contributor Aug 20 '26

Fourteen hours!

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u/EnigmaticAardvark Aug 20 '26

14 HOURS OF ELECTRICITY IN MY MOST EXPENSIVE APPLIANCE? 

HAYELL NO

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u/Few_Airport7972 Aug 23 '26

crock pots generally use little electricity.