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Rooms and storage · Service rooms, kitchen and pantry · rooms-10Add a food processing and preserving station
Harvests arrive in gluts. A processing station lets you wash, cut, can, dehydrate and ferment large batches without taking over the whole kitchen.
How
- Plan a long, washable worktop, a deep sink and wall storage for canners, jars and a dehydrator. The methods are in living-10, living-11 and living-12.
- In hot climates, consider a shaded outdoor or semi-outdoor processing area so canning heat stays out of the house.
- Plan where cooled jars will sit undisturbed, then where they go on the pantry shelves. Label every jar with contents and date, as living-9 advises.
- Place the dehydrator and any electric canner where they can run in the middle of a sunny day (living-6).
Safety: Follow tested canning methods only (living-10).
Do these first
Sources
- Food Storage: Pantry (HGIC fact sheet). Clemson Cooperative Extension, Home and Garden Information Center, accessed 2026-11