Canning pineapple

[blissful]

Pineapples went on sale at meijers, $7/7, so we bought 14. I washed pint and 24 oz jars.
The directions say, chunks, with water or syrup, we use water. It's very good in water and I use a lot of pineapple lately in carrot-apple-pineapple slaw.
Waterbath canner, for 15 or 20 minutes.

National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Can Fruits

Tomorrow I'll be canning while mr bliss is out on the trapline. Either all of them tomorrow or tomorrow and the next day.

 

[cookiecrafter]

What do you look for when picking your pineapples at the the store? The ones at my store are always green and I leave them on a table at home where the cat can reach the tops and nibble on them. It seems to speed up the ripening process. I believe the tops must be like quack grass.

 

[blissful]

I pick the biggest ones. I've read that they don't ripen after picking. I'm not sure if that is true or not. I've never bought a pineapple and had to dispose of it because it was not sweet enough and I buy quite a lot of them when I can or dehydrate them. If I let them sit whole for too long, they will start to ferment or rot a little.

 

[jennyema]

pick them up and smell the bottom. It should smell distinctly pinepply

 

[blissful]

14 large pineapples fits 6 large pineapples flat in a chiquita box. About 2.5 lbs each. Very sweet. They were mostly green.
End result:
1 quart jar
21 24-oz jars
6 pint jars
About 39 oz of canned pineapple per pineapple.

 

[blissful]

Cost analysis:
$14 pineapples.
To buy pineapple, canned 20 oz cans, $1.49 each. 10 cans would be about $15.
The jars and tattler lids are a previous investment, the few metal lids I used are 8 cents/lid.

So with the work involved, 28 jars of pineapple, about 18 of them were at little to no cost.