hi, I just wanted to chime in a bit on the salsa canning question. I'd go for boiling water bath with a tablespoon of lemon juice to a quart jar of salsa, unless you maybe have a tomato-free product that's really not acidic. you can get litmus paper to bake sure your pH is acceptable as a boiling water bath - or even make your own from puple cabbage if you are adventurous with kitchen chemistry. all my canning boooks say that the delicate flavors and colors fruits including tomatoes won;t hold up will to a pressu and throw in your lemon juice or vinegar you an safely do bioling-water canned pumpkin butter with sufficient lemon juice 9really tasty too - ry it when the weather changes and there are no more tomatoes to can!) so I don;t see why it wouldn't acidify hot salsa sufficiently. but lemons do cary in acidity (a do tmatoes) so experiment and test if you are unsure.

i;ve safely canned ratatouille with lots of eggplant and peppers alongside the tomatoes using lemon juice as needed, so i;d think hot salsa would be a similar experience. i also had a 40 pound box of very ripe tomatillos last year that were turning sweet rather like bland tomatoes rather than hard and sour as they are usually used in salsa), and I canned them into salsa with reconstituted guajillo chiles, onion, and lots of lime juice.

(I don;t use much vinegar, as it seems to be a migraine trigger for me and i;ve found vinegar-canned tomatoes taste too much like vinegar and not enough lke tomatoes)e canner and I'd tend to agree. even if you have a lot of fresh corn and peppers - soak them in lime juice, make a tomato- or tomatillo salsa. speaking of hot peppers; they can vary a lot on the same bush as well as batch to batch. i;vehad jalapenos that were milder than Anaheims, and jalaenos that were scorching alwas worth checking out the fir fo the chile ebfre committing to using them...a friend gave me a couple or maybe three hotpeppers from his bush in the sumemr this year, one one of tem was so hot it actuall gave me a brwn cemical brn on m fingers - I;d thought m hands were jsut dirty and coldn;t wash them off - had to see the dermatologist the next day about my face and she confirmed that it was indeed a pepper burn...