Re: using pressure cooker to can raw food
For shelf stable, you would need a pressure canner. (Not your stove top pressure cooker for a quick meal.)
It has a weight gauge.
If you use this type of canner, you can put raw meat in the jars following directions for weight and time depending on the altitude you are living at.
I cut up boneless chicken breast the size of 1inch cubes and only put 1 tsp of sea salt in the jar and when it cooks in the canner, it makes enough broth in each jar that it is not dry. Between heating the canner to a point and adding the time of getting it up to the pound of pressure needed with the cooking time and then the depressurizing time, it is thoroughly cooked.
You can do beef cubes...........Hamburger you might want to brown it so that it doesn't become a solid clump running the risk of not being done in the center.
I have added cut up veggies with the raw meat and made my own canned soup. Find the link to an agricultural gov site and it will have directions on how much pressure to set the gauge and the length of time.
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