Preserve Your Harvest with WECK Small-Batch Jars

D Aguirre: The step by step of preserving and recipes in this book are perfect for me, as I only have smaller quantities of fruit to make jam and preserves from, and also, I don't have a way to can larger jars at the moment. Pint and smaller are what I can do easily at the moment. This helps take a lot of the guesswork out of the process. A book that has a permanent place on my countertop.

United States on Mar 31, 2024

Trevor Sinclair: I found it very helpful in doing the small batches, once I have done a few I will upgrade to bigger batches.
Have done a chutney, will be doing a Blueberry jam next.

Australia on Jan 29, 2024

Lindsay Hotchkiss: Love this book. I checked it out from the library first and out a sticky note on almost every page before I just decided to buy it. I’m new to food preservation and everything in this book seems very doable.

United States on Nov 28, 2023

Lisa: Jag använde den för att lära mig att konservera.

Sweden on Oct 02, 2022

Erin Tranfield: I love so many things about this book:
- the information about WECK jars was very helpful to me since I am not experienced working with these jars. I found everything I need to know to get started.
- the book is beautifully illustrated with great pictures that make my mouth water.
- the recipes are in reasonable quantities for what one might have from a small garden or farmers market. I think you can double or triple the recipes if you need / want to, but the book focuses on small quantities and that is perfect for me.
- there is a small area for notes for each recipe and I love this since I always write what I did and how it went.

Overall I love this book! It is definitely inspiring me to try new and interesting things and giving me the confidence to do it.

Spain on Oct 22, 2021

Ksenia: I really love the fact that this book offers recipes for small batches. My family consists of two people so I needed recipes which won't ask for 50 lb of produce and will account on that much products when it comes to measure sugar, vinegar or etc.
This book also is my first book to use in preserving so thanks to it I found out a difference between Ball jars and Weck jars :D Even though I had to go and order Weck jars - I used both brand with recipes from this book. These recipes works the same way for Ball jars.
After using both jar brands I understood why author prefers Weck jars over Ball, and frankly speaking - now I prefer Weck over Ball as well. Even though Weck jars more expensive they are cheaper in a long run, because you are saving on lids tone of money, while with Ball jars you have to replace them in best case scenario once in two years, in usual scenario - every year (they rust like crazy!).
Ok, back to this book :) This book offers very nice recipes which I never tried before and they came out awesome! I love carrot cake jam! I did not try fermentation recipes yet, but with pickle preserves I found out that it offers more vinegar than I like it. Next time I...

United States on Sep 16, 2020

Andrew George: Great resource for canning and so many recipes to try. It's well worth the read and money. Can't wait to try the kvass recipes

Canada on Nov 17, 2019

Dawn Casey Rowe: I do a lot of canning. I also love Weck jars. Most people find them hard to use or mysterious.

WECK Small-Batch Preserving demystifies the Weck jar, which is making a big comeback. Also, Stephanie has wonderful recipes--if you've been canning a while, the old standards get dull. It's nice to have some fresh new recipes.

Weck Small-Batch Preserving also disproves the misconception that you need to can 50 jars at a time--this lets me waste less while still getting new spins on in-season ingredients.

United States on Jul 05, 2019

Linda Neilson: Great book. Filled with recipes and ideas. Got me started ‘pickling’ again and tried new ideas.

United Kingdom on Apr 27, 2019

Michelle O.: Last year I decided to take the leap into canning! With the help of Thurow's first book, Can It & Ferment It, I was able to start with small batches which made the process less daunting! After using the first book, I was excited to receive Thurow's new book! She has a very helpful explanation (with photos) of how to use WECK jars, which I appreciated since the jars were new to me. The jars are a bit more spendy, so I like that the recipes - though tailored for WECK jars - are able to be made in standard mason jars as well. I have made a couple of the jam recipes, her version of fiery cider, and I even infused some alcohol (the apple-cinnamon-vanilla vodka is my favorite), and everything has turned out fantastic. Oh, and I can't get enough of the pickled peppers. I am very happy with this purchase. Great photos once again as well!

United States on Jan 25, 2019