Canning Orange Juice - Does It Taste Any GOOD? - #4
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- We have a lot of oranges. A LOT. We've made curd, marmalade, marinades and even wine. But we still have a lot left. We'd read about canning orange juice to preserve the harvest but didn't know what it would taste like after months on a shelf. So, we decided to find out.
Join us in the kitchen shed for a canning experiment and a couple of taste tests to find out if canned orange juice tastes any good. Let's see...
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Try adding a little of the zest in when you boil the juice. Just a few slices. Then strain out. It will give it a more rounded orange flavour.
Ohh, will definitely try this. Testing some new jars and an electric water bather today so it’s a perfect opportunity. Thanks for the tip!!
I could smell the oranges when you were juicing them, Very fresh :) LOL
Another reason to whipe the jar with vinegar is to make sure there is no juice residue of the juice. It is imperitive that the glass is clean in order for the lids stick when processed.
That's what I was going to say.
Guys you need to do a last Eco and Beyond vlog to announce your new channel. I was missing you until I accidentally stumbled across your new channel. All the best and happy to see you didn't disappear.
Our neighborhood (Georgia, USA)will sure love your "orange problem" hahaha 😆😜
The salivary glands were twinging as I watched you taste the various juices. Great experiment and good to know for my abundance of orange trees I have here in Canada!! Hugs from 🇨🇦.
A great experiment that worked out well for you for a year's worth of orange 🍊 juice... A great saving all round. Now to find a perfect place to store heaps of orange 🍊 juice in hundreds of small jars... 👍🙂😎🌞
Thank you for the vid. So thats how you do pasteurised oranges. However the comments are super. If everyone did a video and then compared to a commerical orange production process, I would be watching oranges for a long time. That said the proof is in the taste. Great way to start a day off. Better way to finish a night. Thanks again for sharing..
I love watching your science experiments! Thank you :-)
The OJ would also make great popsicles or sorbet, so nice and refreshing for those hot days.
We’ll be trying sorbet in the future, we just don’t have freezer capacity at the moment
Is there a food pantry/food bank that would accept a donation of you excess fruit?
Watching you can brings back memories of my grandmother teaching me how to can fruits and vegetables.
My grandmother would buy a huge load of oranges when they were at their cheapest or on sale. I lugged a few sacks of oranges from the grocery stores myself when we went for visits. I don’t know how she did it but I’d imagine it would be similar to what you did. But she would freeze hers and added water to make “fresh” OJ anytime of the year. When I got older and found out that you could get frozen OJ in a can, I wondered why she went through all that trouble. That was until I bought one; Gran’s tasted better.
Try to make pasteurization simple. I boil juice and pour it into a hot rinsed jam jar. Immediately turn the lid on and place the jar upside down on a towel. After an hour, put jars upright and check whether lids are hollow. Finished.
Try making jam with orange, apple and a little cinnamon!
It is very tasty!
Yes! Marmalade!
I can orange juice in liter and half liter jars and some half liter bottles. I found out that it is best to strain the juice if you have a lot of bits in there. It ends up on the top layer of the pot of juice and you end with an uneven mix of juice and bits. The bits I then dry in the dehydrator. I also freeze a lot in small bottles. It has a slightly more bitter, sharp less sweet taste depending on the type of oranges. It works for me anyhow as I like tart drinks.
Just for fun we dehydrated orange slices and boy were they good, it concentrated the flavor and is my new favorite.
Make Orange Curd. I have the same problem as you (in Spain with lots of orange trees) - Orange Curd is delicious.
Nom nom
Great use of oranges that may otherwise go to waste. Loved the controlled experiment. Thank you.
It's great to find a way to preserve those beautiful oranges:)))
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They've added an "in order" playlist to their channel!
You've got very beautiful oranges!
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I saw a show once years ago about commercial orange juice from Florida. It kinda made me feel sick because they talked about putting it in vats and stored really long periods. I don't fully remember the details.. I'm glad yours are doing well. !! Can all your beautiful oranges !!!! Good luck 💕💕
Lovely video. Thank s for sharing a bit of your life with us. 🥰
Great video! I have watched a few about canning but, get overwhelmed with all the 'need to buy equipment' which I can't find easily here. You made it simple using everyday equipment. Thank you....Maybe some sun drying food stuff later? I have an abundance of that here.😀
We always try to do our initial experiments with whatever we have .... to make sure it works and that we like the results.
Since filming the video we’ve invested in a bigger electric water bather that can do more jars at once and also some different jars. Tested these today, just waiting for the jars to cool down 😀
I agree with you!!she doesn't need any machinery,she does it the old way, that's why I liked!🤗😃
@@MAKEDOGROW I like the to hand idea....good luck with those new jars and thank you for replying 😁
May I suggest to buy a freezer and freeze the juice and used it on the time when you don't have fruits available. God Bless and Love from Canada! Love what you did with your property!
There’s no freezer big enough to store the amount of juice we have available... and we currently don’t have enough solar setup to run a freezer
What I miss since the late '80's is canned concentrated, frozen orange juice used in all sorts of cooking situations. Perfect, with water reconstituted orange 🍊 taste. Especially ideal for drinks and cocktails 🍸. The cans were small and convenient to store and stored for ages. It was difficult to tell it wasn't freshly juiced. I can't remember the Brand name. I wonder if you could dehydrate the oranges. Powdered Orange juice.
Can also freeze dry
Rims of jars should always be wiped. Rings twisted finger tight only
Yum! Not sure if you are into sweeter stuff but fruit leathers, sugar glazing slices (dehydrating). You can also save peels for tea or make zest for recipes/baking. Yum
Oh this is my dream. Try spicy juice with clover, cinnamon and cardamon! I would definitely experiment with marmalade and all sorts of spreads. Also candied orange peel is very tasty! I know you said it’s not your thing, but maybe for friends or some future business ideas? Those citrus trees are a blessing! Looking forward to next videos, I’m so happy you keep going and enjoying what you do.
I think the OJ and spices will definitely be going into mulled wine later in the year 😀
Tks, I am going to try this...😊
Hi guys I really like your thinking. Idea for the orange stuff sell organic produce. juice, marmalade, sweet from orange peels, dried peel for cake flavoring. Also plant lemons 👍👍👍💖🥰
Hello from Spain! I enjoy it so much this video, because ,I like all about canned food the old way and house restoration. Thanks for sharing , I subscribe to your channel and will follow up your journey 😃🤗🤗🤗
Awesome job. Don’t need the info in Scotland unfortunately. 😊
Would work with any juice I’m sure. Are apples and pears grown in Scotland?
You can get a "thing" to pick up the lids from the hot water. I think it has a magnet on the bottom and I've seen it on various You Tube videos...saves on burned fingers.
I've never really thought about canning orange juice, as I'm from the Midwest USA. I did go to 2 years of college near Tampa, FL and remember, on trips around Florida, smelling the smell of orange & lemon production when driving by the groves & juice factories. It seemed amazing at the time, plus the smell of the flowers. The air was alive with orange and lemon smells.
You should smell our little kitchen shed when we’re dehydrating citrus peel ... it’s like Christmas all year round 😃
Was told to dehydrate the peelings and make powdered zests for baking, and cooking. Ordered a solar dehydrator from Amazon. Looking forward to its arrival. Did put it in stocking and hang dried. Also dehydrated it in my electric dehydrator. Have not made the orange chicken stir fry yet
Make chunky orange marmalade slice up lots of rind. Pretty up the. Labels and lids and thats your Christmas presents sorted for the next few years.
That is very interesting. I might try that this growing season with my friends lemon tree 😊
I have subsequently tested at 65C for 20 mins and it tastes much better and fresher
I love canning and preserving. It’s such a long process in your tiny kitchen. You’re so patient. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I’ve just recently found a much better way ... juiced, cold packed in jars, then water bathed at 60C for 30mins (did lots of research about pasteurisation after some of the other comments). Easier and tastes much better, almost like fresh juice (and no doubt has more vitamins)
@@MAKEDOGROW This is so interesting! You have both recipes on your new site?
@@MAKEDOGROW And, yes, it sounds far easier.
Excellent. This video answers all my questions. thanks
I’ve subsequently changed to using an electric canner .... 65C degrees for 30 minutes, and the taste is much better
@@MAKEDOGROW May I ask, is this your whole process? Or do you pasturise first? I just made some shelf stable OJ using a Fowler's Vacola unit and the juice didn't taste so good after pasturising... Fresh it was lovely, but after processing it was quite bitter and the taste had significantly changed.
With this updated method, do you place the filled jars/bottles in the water bath canner and then bring it up to 65 degrees (and keep at 65 degrees for 20-30 mins) or do you put the jars straight into the canner that is already at 65 degrees?
So happy to see you on UA-cam again :D
Missed your Videos!!
We were subscribed to and followed your “Eco & Beyond “ then when Kylie hurt her back, digging all the drainage. Then we saw no more.... Till we stumbled across your new channel tonight.... so why did you change, without telling us? I know we have missed a lot.....
Wot? No added chemicals!! Great to see the breadth of your skills - labourer, carpenter, plumber, market garden er, vintner and now chef
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Your channel is great!! Keep on doing content please , I enjoy so much :) why dont you do a tour inside the house? What do you do for a living?!
Awesome information. Easy to follow. Will definitely be trying that. Thankyou 😊
I would love marmalade. Make it and sell it.
💕Have you tried orange sorbet💕Squeeze freeze stir every hour until it crystallises then leave to freeze until your ready to eat it💕
Will definitely be trying that when we have a freezer. How long can it stay in the freezer .... would be great here in the summer months 😀
Nice experiment and you get to drink it. Freeze dried slushies could be the way to go and they last forever and can be sold online. All that compost could be made in fuel. OK I know you have a lot to do already thanks for sharing.
Ha ha, yes many things on our plate. We have looked at a freeze dryer, and an automatic juicer .... will probably invest in both when we’ve built our processing kitchen 😀. And after peeling 50 oranges this morning (to dehydrate and make orange powder) I’m wondering if there’s a machine that can do that too ... peeling cramp is very real 😂
That was fun! Thanks for sharing!! Peace and blessings 🙏
Nice! Looks good. How about selling all the fruit you don't need?
Great video and very interesting results
I water bath canned a few gallons of orange juice a few weeks ago. Same method, essentially. I did strain out the pulp. I pasteurized the juice (heated to 190f for 5 minutes). Then water bathed. I’ve opened some and it was wonderful. The canning does kill the enzymes and vitamin C, but not the vitamin A. I didn’t want to see the oranges go to waste and will use the juice. I still prefer fresh squeezed, of course.
I’m hoping to do another experiment this week, at a lower temperature. A little bit of research suggests that a cold pack, then water bathing at 60C for 30 mins will also work.
I’d be much happier if that works, less work and hopefully more retained goodness
Great experiment!
What a great idea, can your own juice to use when the oranges are not in season. I hope that you are able to can in litre or more quantities, those small jars are hard to store and not even one drink.
Doing an experiment today with some larger jars and a new electric water bather. If all goes well we’ll be investing in a lot more 1L jars
Brilliant work🌸👏🇦🇺
Always love watching your videos guys!
Thank you. Very interesting. Question: would the vitamins still be alive or does the cooking kill off vitamins? Look forward to you next video. 👍🖐
Good question. I am a home etc teacher and my students have just done this for a prac - lesson learned - heat kills vit C unfortunately. The students came up with alternative of freezing oranges until you want to eat them. You can either peel and freeze, then turn them into a slushy - delish !! Or freeze with skin on, defrost and either juice or, slice and eat. It is better for your health to consume the pulp of the orange as it contains soluble and non soluble fibre, preventing your gut from absorbing too much sugar from the juice.
Heating definitely reduces the vitamins etc, but not all of them. If you’re looking to maximise on the bits, freezing is probably better (but then you have to have the freezer space)
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@@MAKEDOGROW honestly, you are doing a great job. I love the way you experiment and that you try not to waste anything.
@@justoneacre7873 thanks, I really hate anything going to waste!
The next thing I have to solve is what to do with all the pulp left over from juicing - thinking I’ll experiment with some kind of pressed and dehydrated slices, something like a fruit jerky.
I peeled 50 oranges today to also make use of the peel, very time consuming unfortunately, so need to find something else we can use the skins for 😀
Bought homemade zitrussoap in Portugal. It was really great.
For how long can you store them when they are unopened? Great content we love all of your vids😊
8:30 Nice hiss (cheers to Steve) 😅
Could you try FREEZING fresh orange juice? Either as ice cubes or blocks .
If you’ve got freezer space you can freeze bottle of fresh juice. It tastes great once thawed and lasts as long in fridge as fresh squeezed after thawing.
We don’t have a freezer unfortunately... and freezing isn’t really a scalable option when you have thousands of oranges. Would like to try making a concentrate and either canning or freezing that
Is there a UA-cam version allowing us to smell and taste?
I could smell and taste the orange❤️
That was very interesting and a good experiment. Could taste oranges as you were juicing them lol. .over the video thank you xx
Enjoyed
I have picked lovely tasting oranges early spring whilst visiting Cyprus, although there is a citrus season, I hear they can be picked all year round, have you tried them all year round (leaving them on the tree) ?
We don’t pick any ... we just use what falls from the tree (I’ve collected 57 from one tree today and it’s only 1pm ... it’s particularly windy today).
Last year they lasted through until about July on the tree - the weather (wind and rain) play a large part in how many drop
Could you try freeze drying the orange juice in the future because the freeze dryer is costly. But you'll end up with orange powder. Maybe you could sell it.
Good info….Thank You!🌀💚🌀
I’d love to know where you bought the jars.
I have the experience that when I press the orange too far, ie down to the white membrane, my juice is much more bitter than when I make sure that the membrane is not touched during the pressing.
Because we really enjoy duck breast fillet with orange sauce, I found out myself by pressing it myself, but in the wrong way. After I had done a new pressing in the right way, my sauce was delicious.
1.5L was then reduced to 0.5L, so that all flavors present became more concentrated.
I think there were very empty peel halves on your waste mountain, although I could have been wrong of course.
Since you have a very large amount of oranges, you might try juicing a little less powerful to make sure the zest hasn't added any extra flavor to the juice, is my penny here. 😅😎
How about making chutney or relish instead of Marmelade?
I have found that the deep orange zest when ground together with sugar makes an orange drink very similar in flavor to orange soda.
Oh, I’ll need to try that. We made some orange dust (dehydrated peel that’s been ground) so that should work too
I think the hot water bath is a good way to go. I do believe the juice can be good up to 18 mo depending upon your storage facilities. Tropicana probably does a similar process. You can also freeze dry orange juice. 🍊
A freeze drier is on our ‘to buy’ list when we’ve built our processing kitchen. Can’t wait!! 😃
The canning process will cause the complex sugars to break down into simpler versions. The enzymes contained in the juice will also become inactive after heating. Juice concentrators and milk condensers will often concentrate under vacuum. The boiling point of the liquid is lowered from near 100 C to around 55 to 60 C. Much kinder to the sugars and other goings on inside the juice. Chilling before you break the seal, on your canning jar, will help preserve the freshness...but only a bit. Have you tried drying or dehydrating your oranges as an alternative use? I've seen plans for solar dehydrators online and on UA-cam. Just a thought. BTW...Pennsylvania just had its first day above 21 C.....So jealous of you guys!!!!
One day we’ll invest in a freeze dryer, think that’s probably our most affordable option for better preserving.
We do also dehydrate peel and slices (Kylie did 50 oranges worth of peel today).
Wine still seems to be the most effective way of using up the large quantity of fruit that we have 😂
Do you can other food stuffs? Did you buy the jars new etc or use old jars and lids. I want to do canning but can’t afford a steam canner. Can you do a video on that please
We do can other foods ... you’ll see plenty of that when we harvest from the garden later this year.
We use both types of jars, ones we repurpose from store bought food and others bought specifically for canning.
If you have a large enough pot you can water bath anything - the pot I used was just a standard pot that goes on the stove (we bought at a local market here for around €10), not a special canning one.
Canning videos I’ve watched of homesteading you tubers usually say they are wiping the jar rims with vinegar to remove food particles which will prevent a proper seal.
Not really an issue when using lug lids, but is a consideration with the US style 2-part rings. Also if you’re pouring from a jug you’re much less likely to get anything on the rim
Wonder about the vitamin & nutritional value of the juice: fresh vs processed?
Hello from a freezing snowy PEI Canada. Is it possible to freeze the juice. I could smell the freshness of the oranges.
We don’t have a freezer unfortunately ... it’s also not really a scalable option when you have thousands of oranges (collected 120 off the ground today - it’s been a little windy and chilly)
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I think you should do a test with a lower temperature! Keeping the juice at 63C for 30 minutes should pasteurize it just fine, while maybe preserving the flavor better?
It has to go to 90C in the water bather, or so the science says, so even if we heated it less initially it would still go above 63C in the bath. Unless you have some research/science that suggests otherwise?
@@lodriguez will try experimenting with lower temps, not only good for the juice but will take less time (and energy) to heat the water
Hi, thanks for the Video, could you please write in description what Juicer do you use here?
It’s this, purchased in the UK: www.sageappliances.com/uk/en/products/juicers/800cp.html?sku=800CPUK
In other countries Sage = Breville
I would never have thought of canning orange juice! I don’t do much canning but … did you know there is a handy tool to get the lids out of the boiling water and save your fingers from getting scalded: it’s a small magnet attached to a plastic wand. Having seen your DIY habits, you’ll probably just glue a magnet onto a wooden dowel!
By heating it in a pot first, then pouring it in jars which cools it, then reheating it again, it seems like you had a lot of heating, reheating and oxygen exposure. If you "cold pack it" as in the case of oranges, put room temperature juice directly into jars, and into an already quite warm pot of water (you can have a 30 degree or so difference between jar and canning pot no problem, just not ice cold straight into very hot water)... you would avoid a lot of that. Maybe it would improve the product even more? Also, you really don't need to leave the jars in the pot an extra 5 minutes, its another step that is unnessecary and might overcook it. Just take them straight out onto the towel.
Also I'm curious how the juice tasted maybe a couple of months or so later?
Wiping the rim of the jar is to make sure nothing got on the rim that would keep the jars from sealing.
To be honest won't know till u try.
Folks now days can anything that fits, from meats, dry freeze etc.
Yr extras might help with animals when and if u decide.
Or and have a Farmstand sale and give back to the community.
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Any reason you are using propane and not induction for the hobs? I commented in another video im in the UK running the same inverter offgrid and have used an induction all summer easily. Seems you guys wouldve had enough power to cover it too.
We now have induction … this is a very old video
U can made kompucha juice fermentation.
Hello great ideia 👍
Different oranges have different juice qualities I believe valencia orange juice stores for a long time comparatively without bittering and nearly all commercial juice is made from them. Also some orange varieties will stay fresh on the tree for extended periods of time allowing you to have fresh oranges most of the year round meaning you don't have to rush to preserve when you have a glut like some more traditional varieties.
Good content!
What if you put fresh juice straight into jar and then can it? Eliminate the boiling?
And if you add some lemon juice before sealing, wont bring the bitter back and conserve it more? I used tonmix lemon so it wont taste bitter.
The vinegar is good for cloudiness but your lids will start to rust very fast if you don't clean off the vinegar after they cool down xx😊
We’ve just switched over to Weck jars that have glass lids so all should be good from now on. Will definitely remember to rinse the others if I continue to use them for canning. Thanks for the tip 😃
@@MAKEDOGROW That's fantastic! I'm enjoying your content alot!! 😊
@@MAKEDOGROWweck declared bankruptcy last month. Maybe they will be able to be saved and continue on, but it might be a good time to stock up on extra rings right now
Hi! Any update on the quality of the canned juice? Would be nice to know :)
Unfortunately, i cannot give it a try, no oranges growing here :-/
But i recently canned my Sauerkraut with use of the inverter. Don't you use your inverter for cooking?
Was wondering if you could reduce it to a concentrate as an experiment. That's how the big companies do it, saves on needed storage space. Then when you want to drink it you add water. But I'm pretty sure you would lose a lot of the flavour and nutrients 😬
We’ll definitely try making syrups, cordials etc in the future but that takes a lot more energy. I’m pretty sure it also removes almost all of the nutrients because of the higher temps and longer processing time
I was taught you should do only finger tightness for lids with water bath canning, but perhaps the seal is different with those lids.
Yep, that’s the advice for the 2 part lids, lug lids are different.
There was one we didn’t tighten enough and it didn’t seal (was great in a cocktail the following day though) 😂