Anyone buying bulk pectin?

[Deebo]

Hello, so the wife is bitten, and making jelly. Just ordered her two pounds of pectin, to stop buying the little boxes.
Anyone have any experience with it? I hope it works just like surejell.
Also, just a heads up, the ace hardware in my town has the best huge selection of canning related materials. pallets of jars, lots of everything.
The only bad deal I saw was Surejell, it was like 5.50 a box, at Ace, and its around 2.50 at walmart and Dollar general.
Jar prices looked comparable to amazon.
Anyone find an online site for jars?
I figure the wife will have to sell the "jars for 4$, and get free jam inside" is how im gonna market it.

[Broncosfan]

Hello, so the wife is bitten, and making jelly. Just ordered her two pounds of pectin, to stop buying the little boxes.
Anyone have any experience with it? I hope it works just like surejell.
Also, just a heads up, the ace hardware in my town has the best huge selection of canning related materials. pallets of jars, lots of everything.
The only bad deal I saw was Surejell, it was like 5.50 a box, at Ace, and its around 2.50 at walmart and Dollar general.
Jar prices looked comparable to amazon.
Anyone find an online site for jars?
I figure the wife will have to sell the "jars for 4$, and get free jam inside" is how im gonna market it.

Never bought bulk pectin. I personally would not since I never know how much I will be using every year.The humidity is bad here in Ohio so if I have some open from year to year I don't use it.I only use the Ball
pectin that you measure yourself. Jars never bought online. I assume your in New Mexico? Doubt there is a Menards there but the only place I buy jars. You can go online to klip2save.com search Ball canning coupons and you can get good coupons for $3 off a doz. I think the cost is 24 cents a coupon and a $1 per order mailing charge. Order today and you surely would have them first of next week. The coupons expire late Sept I believe. I stocked up last year on pints for under $4 a doz.

[Deebo]

damn good prices.

[Deebo]

ordered two, one of each size, as soon as they come in, Ill have the lowest price in town recorded, and see if theres any problems, then stock up before the deadline.
THANK YOU

[Dwight55]

I guess I'm going to get buzzed here, . . . but here goes anyway.

Why does anyone waste good money on pectin?

If the fruit is capable of being made into jam or jelly, . . . it has enough fruit pectin already in it.

If it doesn't, . . . why waste time making jam or jelly out of something that wasn't meant to be done in the first place?

Kinda reminds me of using pectin to make liver and onion jelly, . . .

My grandmother, mother, and none of my aunts that I know of ever used the stuff, . . . and neither do I. I make excellent strawberry, strawberry-rhubarb, blackberry, black raspberry, jams, . . . and never have a problem.

Aww, . . . never mind, . . . I know, . . . I'm old fashioned.

May God bless,
Dwight

[hawgrider]

I guess I'm going to get buzzed here, . . . but here goes anyway.

Why does anyone waste good money on pectin?

If the fruit is capable of being made into jam or jelly, . . . it has enough fruit pectin already in it.

If it doesn't, . . . why waste time making jam or jelly out of something that wasn't meant to be done in the first place?

Kinda reminds me of using pectin to make liver and onion jelly, . . .

My grandmother, mother, and none of my aunts that I know of ever used the stuff, . . . and neither do I. I make excellent strawberry, strawberry-rhubarb, blackberry, black raspberry, jams, . . . and never have a problem.

Aww, . . . never mind, . . . I know, . . . I'm old fashioned.

May God bless,
Dwight

Some of the reasons for using it is here-


Point of Pectin: 5 Reasons to Add Pectin to Your Homemade Jam

It should be a crime to take beautiful fruit you bought at a farm stand or hand-picked yourself and cook the joy out of it. Cooking any mixture of fruit and sugar long enough will result in a jam that will set up in your canning jars. But longer cooking times can mean over-processed flavor, darkened color and a lower yield. Adding pectin allows you to cook jam for a much shorter time, which may result in the jam of your dreams. Here are five reasons to add it to your next batch.
http://www.thekitchn.com/the-point-of-pectin-5-reasons-to-add-it-to-your-jam-193449

[Dwight55]

Nahhh, . . . it's just the lazy way out, . . . period.

Whoever that was sounded more like a CNN reporter telling about Melania, . . . than someone who actually has done any canning.

But again, . . . just one ol' timer's opinion, . . . YMMV

May God bless,
Dwight

[hawgrider]

But again, . . . just one ol' timer's opinion, . . . YMMV

May God bless,
Dwight ^^Exactly ^^



Yield, flavor, taste.... yeah none of that matters Lmao!

[Broncosfan]

I don't use pectin for apple butter. Cooking it long and slow until it gets think. Used a crock pot for this years one batch really good the second I'm not sure what happened but it wasn't great so threw it out.
Pectin use does help make consistent results. I prefer using it to always get great results with my jam.

[Deebo]

My reason, my wife "only follows the written directions", to the best of her ability.
She is funny. OH IT HAS TO BE LIKE THIS DONNIE". I hear that one a lot.

[Broncosfan]

My reason, my wife "only follows the written directions", to the best of her ability.
She is funny. OH IT HAS TO BE LIKE THIS DONNIE". I hear that one a lot.

I am somewhat the same. I do experiment with recipes but changing or guessing in a jelly or jam recipe can produce bad results. I hate to waste fruit especially.

[Deebo]

Never bought bulk pectin. I personally would not since I never know how much I will be using every year.The humidity is bad here in Ohio so if I have some open from year to year I don't use it.I only use the Ball
pectin that you measure yourself. Jars never bought online. I assume your in New Mexico? Doubt there is a Menards there but the only place I buy jars. You can go online to klip2save.com search Ball canning coupons and you can get good coupons for $3 off a doz. I think the cost is 24 cents a coupon and a $1 per order mailing charge. Order today and you surely would have them first of next week. The coupons expire late Sept I believe. I stocked up last year on pints for under $4 a doz.
I did get a "test coupon" and it worked fine at ace hardware.
Just ordered 10 more, of the $3 off a case of jars, that expire on 9/30/17. No worries, the jars wont expire.
Will there be "more coupons' after the 9/30/17 deadline? I thank you for the heads up.
Last night the wife made jelly from FREE GRAPES. I asked about grapes, apples and peaches on a facebook site that is free, (clothes, furnitiure, school supplies), but we also always alert each other of great deals.
So, It was probably 25 dollars worth of grapes. They were small, seed in grapes, green and black.
She sorted and washed them, I "smashed them" she boiled them for a few minutes, then sieved the juice out. Ended up with 8 3/4 cups of grape juice.
I have the test bowl on my desk, just haven't gotten to eat it yet.

[Broncosfan]

I did get a "test coupon" and it worked fine at ace hardware.
Just ordered 10 more, of the $3 off a case of jars, that expire on 9/30/17. No worries, the jars wont expire.
Will there be "more coupons' after the 9/30/17 deadline? I thank you for the heads up.
Last night the wife made jelly from FREE GRAPES. I asked about grapes, apples and peaches on a facebook site that is free, (clothes, furnitiure, school supplies), but we also always alert each other of great deals.
So, It was probably 25 dollars worth of grapes. They were small, seed in grapes, green and black.
She sorted and washed them, I "smashed them" she boiled them for a few minutes, then sieved the juice out. Ended up with 8 3/4 cups of grape juice.
I have the test bowl on my desk, just haven't gotten to eat it yet.

I have never had a problem with the coupons from klip2save.com. I don't think you will see more Ball coupons this year. Usually 2 times per year around may and Aug. There might have been on on December last year but I can't say for sure. I will let you know if I see another round this year if you want me too?

Great to hear you used free fruit. I made grape jam. We separate the skins from the inside and sit aside. Process the insides through a food strainer/sauce maker. Then I process the skins in a food processor mix it all together. Its a lot of work but we think worth it. I still have over 20 lbs of grapes left. I plan to try a grape pie recipe that someone gave me and can the rest into pie filling if I like it.

[Deebo]

Yes, she is a jam lover. hates jelly. She was upset because we didn't process the skins and pulp, and the whole time, she was stirring, saying, "this shit smells like mop water", "this shit aint gonna work". it did stink like fermented grapes..
WELL, I literally just ate a spoon sample, tastes just like grape jelly to me.

[Deebo]

Wow, I found jars at half off. They were overpriced, but with the coupons, and the half off, I paid 3.75 each for three 12 packs of Ball pint jars.
Now gotta order more coupons, because of the sale.
Oh, and it was a safeway grocery store. half off of 13.00, (6.50), then 3$ off that. so, .24 coupon, comes to about 3.75 case. Only wish they had more, and that weren't marked up, before they were marked down. I think the same jars were about 11$ when I saw them.
Still way cheaper than the 10 $ Walmart prices.

[Broncosfan]

Wow, I found jars at half off. They were overpriced, but with the coupons, and the half off, I paid 3.75 each for three 12 packs of Ball pint jars.
Now gotta order more coupons, because of the sale.
Oh, and it was a safeway grocery store. half off of 13.00, (6.50), then 3$ off that. so, .24 coupon, comes to about 3.75 case. Only wish they had more, and that weren't marked up, before they were marked down. I think the same jars were about 11$ when I saw them.
Still way cheaper than the 10 $ Walmart prices.

Deebo
Make sure you have enough time to get and use the coupons. I'm positive they expire on Sat. 9/30

[Deebo]

Yes sir, they have been running about 4 days to get delivered. Should give me plenty of time. We are done with the half pint jelly jars, going into the canning process now, will be quarts and pints.
Should (SHOULD) be ok, gives me a solid week or so. Im near the stores everyday.