PRESTO Precise 02144 12Qt Digital Pressure Canner User Guide

02144 12Qt Digital Pressure Canner
User Guide

Precise 02144 12Qt Digital Pressure Canner

IMPORTANT: Read your Instruction/Recipe Manual carefully before each use for important operating instructions. Once you have become familiar with how your Presto  Precise® Digital Pressure Canner operates, this condensed guide will become a convenient reference tool.

Getting Ready

• Select canning recipe from Instruction Manual. Prepare jars, lids, and bands. Prepare food as directed for canning.
• Place removable pot in canner. Put canning rack in pot.
• Pour 3 quarts of water into pot, up to fill line.
• Fully insert power cord and plug into 120VAC wall outlet.
• PRESSURE CAN will flash.
• Press the control knob to select the Pressure Can mode.
• lights up. Rotate control knob adjusting to specific processing time for recipe and jar size being used.
• Verify you have set the right program and time.

Jar Warming

• Press. INSERT JARS lights up. Fill jars half full with water and place on canning rack.
• Remove regulator from canner cover.
• Place cover on canner and lock. Confirm gasket is on sensor.
• Lower sensor arm and turn green latch clockwise to lock in place.
• Press. WARM lights up. Jar warming will take about 20 minutes.
  At this time, complete food preparation.

Fill Jars

• Canner will beep twice and FILL JARS lights up.
• Unlock and lift sensor arm. Remove cover.
• Lift out one jar at a time. Discard water from jar and immediately fill jar according to canning recipe. Position lid and secure with band.
• Place filled jar on canning rack and repeat until all jars are filled.

Venting

• Place cover on canner and lock. Lower sensor arm and turn green latch clockwise to lock in place. Confirm that regulator is not on the cover.
• Press and HEAT lights up.
• Once the proper temperature is reached, VENT and will light up and the timer will begin to count down.
• When venting time expires, unit will start beeping.
• PUT REGULATOR ON will light up. Using a pot holder, place regulator on vent pipe, press down and rotate so regulator lever points to CAN position.
• Press to advance to canning phase. Beeping will stop.
• If the air vent/cover lock did not lift during venting, air/steam will continue to release until it lifts.

Canning

• CAN lights up. The processing time set in phase 1 appears.
• Once the required pressure canning temperature is reached, the unit will beep twice and CANNING will light up. Timer begins to count down.
  Canner is now processing.

Cooling

• When processing time expires, canner beeps 4 times.
• COOL lights up. Cooling phase may take about 1½ hours.
• When lights up, the timer begins the final cool down.

Done

• When processing time expires, canner beeps 4 times.
• COOL lights up. Cooling phase may take about 1½ hours.
• When lights up, the timer begins the final cool down.
• When time expires, unit beeps 10 times and DONE lights up.
• Press and hold for 3 seconds. Confirm air vent/cover lock has dropped. Unlock and lift sensor arm. Remove cover.
• Using a jar lifter, carefully remove jars by lifting straight up. Place jars upright on a towel. Do not retighten bands. Allow jars to cool naturally.
  Check seals no earlier than 12 hours, but no later than 24 hours.

PRESSURE CANNING METHOD

Maximum Mason Jar Capacity

• It will be necessary to double-deck wide mouth half-pint jars to achieve maximum jar capacity. To properly double-deck , see Instruction Manual.

ERROR CODES
Pressure Canning
Reference Instruction Manual for a detailed explanation on how to remedy the following error codes. See Troubleshooting section.

POSSIBLE CAUSE

| Insufficient liquid.
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| Regulator was not removed from canner cover in jar warming phase.
| Regulator was not removed from canner cover during venting.
| Regulator was not installed on canner cover after venting.
| Canning process was interrupted.
| Cooling process was interrupted.

Contact Presto Consumer Service at
1-800-877-0441 for the error codes below.
Unplug canner. See the Consumer Service
Information section in Instruction Manual.

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