Preventing food shortages and being self sustainable.

Which stores sell pressure cookers? Locally I have Walmart, Target and a couple of others. Are there any cheap ones out there before prices go sky high?

Anna Bo wrote:What to do if you live in an apartment with no land access to grow? No available land for community garden and no basement for storage? Wish I could move, but it’s currently not an option.

I would also look into foraging and looking for neighbors who have space and even fruit trees but little energy.  Most people buy a house that already has fruit trees on it and they don't know how nor do they care to take care of them. That's where you fit in.

John S
PDX OR

However,  some canners ARE also pressure cookers.   So if you want to the versatility buy a pressure CANNER that also pressure cooks :)

Anybody took notes of what's happening in Sri Lanka and Holland due to their outrage over the fertilizer bans? What if those things happen to us here in America? Isn't it time to create our fertilizer to aid our own crops and others locally?

Abraham Palma wrote:There's a guide online. There it explains what pressure cookers you can use, and what you can preserve with just pressure cookers.
https://nifa.usda.gov/about-nifa/blogs/usdas-complete-guide-home-canning

And there is another from the same company that sells the cans and the pressure canning pot, but I don't remember the name (Presto?).

Abraham, I went to that link though I did not see anything about pressure cookers or pressure canners.

Could you furnish a specific link to the information on pressure cookers?

This Guide:

https://permies.com/wiki/100765/USDA-Complete-Guide-Home-Canning

Has this on page 1-17:

Recommended canners
Equipment for heat-processing home-canned food is of two main types—boiling water canners
and pressure canners. Most are designed to hold seven quart jars or eight to nine pints. Small
pressure canners hold four-quart jars; some large pressure canners hold 18 pint jars in two layers,
but hold only seven quart jars. Pressure saucepans with smaller volume capacities are not recom-
mended for use in canning. Small capacity pressure canners are treated in a similar manner as
standard larger canners, and should be vented using the typical venting procedures.

Is there more updated information on pressure cookers?

Anne Miller wrote:

Abraham Palma wrote:There's a guide online. There it explains what pressure cookers you can use, and what you can preserve with just pressure cookers.
https://nifa.usda.gov/about-nifa/blogs/usdas-complete-guide-home-canning

And there is another from the same company that sells the cans and the pressure canning pot, but I don't remember the name (Presto?).

Abraham, I went to that link though I did not see anything about pressure cookers or pressure canners.

Could you furnish a specific link to the information on pressure cookers?

This Guide:

https://permies.com/wiki/100765/USDA-Complete-Guide-Home-Canning

Has this on page 1-17:

Recommended canners
Equipment for heat-processing home-canned food is of two main types—boiling water canners
and pressure canners. Most are designed to hold seven quart jars or eight to nine pints. Small
pressure canners hold four-quart jars; some large pressure canners hold 18 pint jars in two layers,
but hold only seven quart jars. Pressure saucepans with smaller volume capacities are not recom-
mended for use in canning. Small capacity pressure canners are treated in a similar manner as
standard larger canners, and should be vented using the typical venting procedures.

Is there more updated information on pressure cookers?

On that page they provide two links: one for downloading the guide (here https://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/publications_usda.html#gsc.tab=0), the other for purchasing the guide in paper format.

Abraham, so basically it is the link and quote that I provided.

I didn't noticed you were talking about the same.
Pressure canner operation is explained on pages 21-22 of the same guide. They are not selling any brand. Not sure what you are asking, sorry.
I don't know of any more updated info either.

Could we make our own pressure cookers? Some folks can't afford one of their own. How they work?

I wouldn't try to make a pressure cooker. That could go horribly wrong and kill somebody. You often can find them at garage sales or on craigslist. Not all of them are super expensive.

Please don't try to improvise a pressure cooker. These are carefully engineered to prevent steam explosions. The energy involved is a direct hazard to human life. No joke.

Thinking about it, pressure canners are not appropiate technology. It might not be too expensive, and many kitchenware makers can make it, but it's not something anyone in a third world can make for himself. Smoking, dehydrating, prickling, ... that's what we can rely on in any situation.

Perhaps a pressure canner is something that could be group sourced/ shared/ part of a community tool type set up,  so it's borrowed or loaned to be available to many people.