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Pressure cookers have been around for an awfully long time, although their popularity seems to have ebbed and flowed. Today, though, that popularity is on the increase and for good reason. They speed cooking, they save on energy and they’re safer than ever.
But should you get a pressure canner instead of a pressure cooker? Well, if you get right down to it, a pressure canner is a pressure cooker. On the other, hand a pressure cooker is not necessarily a pressure canner. The difference is primarily in the size.
If you want your pressure cooker to serve as a canner as well, it has to be large enough to accomodate the jars into which your food is placed to be canned. Not all pressure cookers are capable of doing that.
Thus, when it comes time to make that purchasing decision, you would be wise to consider all of the possible uses to which that appliance might be put. Home canning is also increasing in popularity, so that might be an important consideration even if it is, at this point, but a future consideration.