Food Preservation
Thank you for visiting the UAF Cooperative Extension Service to gather more information about food preservation. Below you will find links to food preservation publications and resources that youʼll find helpful. They are organized into general topic areas and either link to PDFs that you can download or to source websites and documents. We also have several related videos on our YouTube channel here. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Extension Agent in your District.
Basics
Safety
- Salmonella Fact Sheet
- Botulism, A Deadly Food Poisoning
- Food Safety Facts, Basics for Handling Food Safely
- Food Storage: Refrigerator and Freezer
- Vegetable Storage in Root Cellars
- pH Values of Common Foods & Ingredients
- Vacuum Packaging
- Visual Inspection of Can Seams
- Safety of Frozen Canned Food
- Safety of Canning Quick Breads
Acidic Foods
- Canning Acidic Foods: Fruits
- Canning Tomatoes and Tomato Products
- Preparing and Using Syrups for Preserving Fruit
Canning Low Acid Foods
- Using and Caring for Your Pressure Canner...
- Canning Low Acid Foods: Legumes
- Canning Low Acid Foods: Meat and Poultry in Jars
- Canning Low Acid Foods: Vegetables
- Cook Before Eating
- Parasites in Marine Fishes
- Canning the Catch
- Canning Fish in Cans
- Canning Fish in Quart Jars
- Home Canning Smoked Fish
- Add Variety to Home-Canned Fish
- Smoking Fish at Home
- Fish Pickling for Home Use
- PSP: Fact Sheet
- Canning Caribou, Deer and Moose
- Canning Meat in Cans
- Canning Poultry from So Easy to Preserve
- How to Fletch a Halibut
- Filleting Salmon
- Mailing Alaska Fish
- Cutting Up a Whole Chicken
- Fish-Wurst
- Making Jerky
Jams and Jellies
Pickles and Relishes
- Pickles and Relishes
- Pickles & Relishes: Problems & Solutions
- Sauerkraut
- Sauerkraut: Problems and Solutions
- Pickle Fact Sheet
Freezing
- Freezing
- Home Freezing of Vegetables
- Home Freezing of Fish
- Help! The Power is Out...
- What To Do If Your Freezer Fails
Drying