Presto 23 Quart Digital Pressure and Water Boiling Canner with LED Digital Display

best thing we ever bought! easy to use.

I started canning with a small, traditional presto before upgrading to an All American and then I bought this last year after a long-time canner recommended it to me. I was not expecting to love it, but I do. It has even made water bath canning easy (which I never enjoyed because I felt like I had to babysit the canner the whole time). I've run at least 25-30 loads of various things from fruit, beans, meat, and whole soup recipes through this workhorse and I reach for it first over my All-American every time now. PROS: It's QUIET. No more having to listen to the regulator jiggle for hours (my personal favorite aspect as I can meat and beans mostly, which require longer processing times), I don't have to babysit it and can rely on it beeping at me so no more forgetting timing for venting or processing. I can also double stack wide mouth quarts with pints on top (maybe this is a rebel canning approach but it works although you can only have 5-6 jars on top or the lid won't go on). It's also much lighter than my AA which weights 25ish lbs empty and is too heavy to move once loaded - not the case with this electric presto! Plus, I can can wherever is convenient and not be tied to my stove or have my stove taken up by a giant canner. I don't mind not having the removable inner pot - I do NOT want non-stick coatings anywhere near my food, so the fact that this canner DOESN'T have that is a big pro compared to the other electric presto models. CONS: You can't double stack quarts or regular mouth jars unless you're only using pints - I wish it was just a teeny bit taller to allow this option comfortably, it also does take a while to cool down after the “cooling” cycle ends (but this is the same thing with my AA canner so not really a con). Overall, I love having the option of being able to preserve food without taking up space on my stove and would HIGHLY recommend the electric canner even over my All American!