Presto 02152 17-Quart Digital Pressure Canner

I love this thing SO MUCH!!! I’ve been wanting to get into canning for a really long time but I was honestly intimidated by it. I really love to cook but due to health reasons I’ve made some big changes in my diet. So buying at the grocery store has become more expensive than usual plus I spend so much time reading labels. Canning has given me much greater control of my food (no chemicals) plus I love that I can reduce sugar. This canner has allowed me to explore both styles of canning with ease! I’ve had it for a month and I’ve been able preserve anything from low sugar jams to spaghetti sauce - it is so fun!! It has worked perfectly every time with no issues. The one thing I will say is it only cans 4 quarts at a time but since it’s just me that’s not a big issue. I looked at cheaper ones here on Amazon but decided to go with this one because it was slightly larger. I’m so glad I did. This has been one of the best investments I’ve made in a long time!!! UPDATE::: I bought this at the end of June and have used it steadily since with no issues. Today when I was washing the inside liner (mid August), the inside coating peeled off! I notice it lifting at the bottom and when I checked it to see if it was just happening a little bit, it came off in sheets!! This is super frustrating because I have peaches ready to can. Unfortunately today is Sunday so I’m stuck until tomorrow on getting any help from Presto but I submitted a message with a picture. I have seen this canner compared to the Nesco, so I literally ran to order that one as it will arrive tomorrow. For $300 I would have expected the presto to hold up longer than 2 months. At this point my original opinion has changed. I’ll update my review as the situation develops. :( Update 2: I emailed Presto on Sunday because they were closed until Monday morning. I called Monday morning and got some rude lady who said if I emailed them then I would have to wait until they responded. She said “we don’t want 2 people working on the same issue “ but she didn’t even want to bother to check to see if they got my email. On Tuesday afternoon I called again. Luckily I got a very nice guy Nick who immediately checked to see if he could find my email but he couldn’t. I emailed him with the picture while we were on the phone and he was clearly flustered at the picture and put me on hold to show Quality Control. They immediately started the process to send me a new liner pan. They also said they may send me a fedex label to send the messed up liner pan back. They told me this is highly unusual and wanted a bunch of model numbers off the unit. I hope to get the replacement liner by the weekend. In the meantime I bought a Nesco. I wanted to see if I made a frivolous choice in buying the presto over the Nesco. I’m in the process of pressure canning split pea soup right now. Here’s my thoughts initially- presto is definitely better. It’s easy to use and warms the jars before canning which I really like because it automates this step. Plus the Presto is much bigger. I prefer wide mouth jars and can get more pints in the presto (7) vs the Nesco (5 and they are really crowded in there). I have decided to keep the Nesco (what can I say - I’m on a canning roll) so that I can do multiple batches at the same time. I have a glass top stove and am afraid to pressure can on it. Plus I live in Fl so while they do heat up the kitchen the electric canners are not nearly as bad as it could be if done on the stovetop. We’ll see how the new Presto liner pan holds up. They said the issue was not seen before and my research confirmed this because I couldn’t find any evidence that it was a problem before. IMHO if you can afford the Presto it’s worth it. The Nesco also acts as slow cooker and a pressure cooker which really doesn’t impress me. But I’ll definitely it check out even though I’m not a big slow cooker person and I gave away my instapot wannabe pressure cooker because I felt all it did was boil the meat. Final edit::: I have used both canners multiple times and have decided that I love the Presto the most. It is practically idiot proof because it beeps when it reaches the next step. That’s good for a newbie canner because I don’t have to guess if it’s time for the regulator or to start the timer like I do with the Nesco. Plus the Presto lid is much easier to clean and reassemble. The new liner pan for the Presto is a different color with a different coating. So maybe the one I got originally was phased out. The company was very responsive about resolving my issue after I got the right person on the phone. All in all I’m still glad that I bought the Presto in spite of the issue. One last final edit: it is now two years later (May 2025) and I still love the Presto the most. I have had no additional problems with the liner pan at all and the canner still works perfectly. I actually sold the Nesco on marketplace because I just didn’t use it anymore.

I have been waterbath canning jams for a few years now but wanted to graduate to pressure canning vegetables and meat. I find this machine to be very easy to use, the instructions being clear and precise. I have already used it for pressure canning gold potatoes and they turned out fine. The 12 qt size works out fine for my 2-person household. For a larger household , I would recommend the 17 qt. Please note that you cannot waterbath quarts in this machine. There is not enough room for water to cover quart sized jars. In my small household I only use pints for waterbath canning in this machine. I highly recommend this machine for both beginners and experienced canners.

This is a pressure canning game changer! I really like this electric canner. A well built quality appliance. The menu driven process coupled with their handy one page checklist enables anyone to pressure can with confidence and ease. The best part is once the “canning” process begins, you are free to do other tasks while the canning time counts down. I’ll never get rid of my classic “stove top” Presto canner, but since I received this, I’ve used it exclusively to can salmon and pinto beans. Will be great when it’s time to start putting up the garden harvest next month!

Can’t do large canning batches. But I’m good with 5 quarts at a time. Pints & half pints can be stacked. Pros Doesn't heat up kitchen. Fantastic because outside doesn’t get hot. I think that’s a plus. You don’t have to worry about children touching and getting burned. Very quiet and love the automation after button is pressed. No baby sitting to watch if it’s keeping constant pressure at proper settings. I have no regrets! I’m thankful that I decided to splurge on myself. But the whole family benefits from the convenience and efficiency of this product.

Do we need another glowing review for this product? Maybe not, but I'm giving one anyway. This thing is awesome! It's so much easier to use and know that you are cooking and sealing the food properly. I used to do water bath canning on the stovetop, which meant a hot summer day was even worse in my kitchen with all that boiling water. Not now. The only steam I really have to deal with is what's coming off the jams. The timer not only keeps you on track, but it automatically shuts off at the right time. One more big bonus: This year (year 3 of using the product) the handle on the lid broke. The plastic part just kind of snapped off. I kept using it because I was in the middle of a batch of jam and it didn't seem like that missing piece would be a big factor, but I was sad and a little frustrated. I took a photo and emailed Presto (on a Saturday night). First thing Monday morning, there's an email from Presto asking for the numbers off my specific device and within days (DAYS!) I received my brand-new lid delivered right to my door. I am so happy that I bought this canner!

My wife and I have been canning for at least 30 years now (stove top pressure and water bath). She suggested having a look at this Presto canner. Seemed like it was one of those too good to be true things but everything I read about it made it worth trying. It DOES in fact meet the USDA guidelines for home pressure canning of meats and such. We do lots of raised bed veggies, tomatoes, etc. plus things like soup stock and such so it is a year round thing for us. Late summer is obviously a busy time and this thing has been fantastic. We have done a lot of water bath canning as well as pressure canning and it has been perfect every time. No more standing in front of the stove adjusting the temperature to keep the pressure or boiling rate just right. Get it. We got the biggest available at the time (17 quarts) but now they do make some larger ones too. Ours will do five quart jars at a time, so only a small step down from the seven quart stove top pressure canners we had previously but the ease and convenience really are big winners here. It is also nice to have the whole stove back so we don't have to plan around the lengthy canning cycles. Do be aware that is is rather tall, so be sure it will fit your counter top if there are lower cabinets above. We have just enough space on the counter to where the canner can sit without any of it interacting with the cabinets. We may end up getting a larger one at some point now that Presto makes a 23 quart model, but this one is fantastic and is serving us well.

This is a long and, hopefully, informative review. I’ve been using Presto’s “old reliable” aluminum 23-quart pressure canner with a third-party pressure regulating “rocker” instead of the dial gauge. I can mostly pints of meats, fish, and poultry, and this old canner can hold 16 of them. (I had to purchase a second rack for the top jars.) But we live in Zone 8b, the hot/humid South, and I cannot bear to can in the house, nor can we afford to. (The canner’s power consumption per load is a LOT, and then add to that how much harder the air conditioner has to work with the canner heating up the whole house.) Instead, I’ve used an infrared burner outside and constantly monitor a load over many hours. It’s one of the most stressful things I do, but I fairly regularly am given free proteins and just can’t turn it down. Things are getting so bad now, I’m almost turning into a prepper…LOL? Anyway, my whole body was screaming at me last week to buy this Presto Precise 17-quart digital canner. Could it really hold 13 pints? Could it really not heat up the whole kitchen? Could it REALLY not require the intense level of monitoring I’ve gotten myself used to and absolutely dread each time I have a canner-load of something I have to process? Yes. (O.) Yes. (M.) YES! (G!) I thought at first I was going to have to buy a second rack to be able to stack jars to achieve the 13 pints, because you have to do that with the 23-quart canner. But the manual shows how to stack the canner, and they don’t use a second rack. Instead, what you do is put seven widemouth jars on the bottom, a circle of six with one in the middle, then six on top of them, staggered so the base/weight of a jar is balanced across the rings of two jars underneath. You don’t put a jar in the center on the top rack. I don’t can in regular-mouth pints, so I don’t know what you would do with those. It seems I read somewhere (or saw on YouTube) that the regular mouth pints are a little narrower and taller and therefore you can only get eight of those in this 17-quart canner. Or maybe I dreamed that after feverishly researching the canner before I bought it…. For the homesteading/off-grid geeks: On Friday, I did a 75-minute initial water test with no stopping to emulate filling the 13 jars. (I also tested that the canner was venting steam properly with the back of a stainless steel spoon; our humidity makes it difficult to see the steam, so that’s something else I now don’t have to stress over.) On Saturday, I did 7 pints of salmon for 100 minutes. On Sunday, I did two 75-minute loads, 13 pints of loosely raw-packed ground turkey (for dogs), then 8 pints of raw-packed chicken and 5 pints of puréed tomatoes. All in my kitchen, all easy-peasy, and really not much heat at all. After I put the pressure regulator on each time, I was off the hook for a good long while, during which time I was able to get a ton of other work done. (That alone is worth the price of the canner.) I ran the canner each time off our 1200-watt off-grid solar array, something I’ve been too afraid to do before, and monitored the total energy consumption: Water test: 1.292 kilowatts Salmon: 1.389 kilowatts Ground turkey: 1.643 kilowatts Chicken/tomatoes: 1.369 kilowatts I was knocked out by how little energy is required to sustain the pressure after the canner starts counting down the minutes you’ve set. Hardly any at all! And I appreciate the new design of the sealing ring; it sits down on top of the liner instead of having to go in the lid, so it’s easier to take it out and wash/examine it than the ring on my 23-quart Presto is. This and the Presto’s hands-off automatic monitoring features made doing two long loads in one day far less daunting. (Also, out of 46 jars, all but two of my Tattler lids sealed. How unheard of is that? I followed Tattler’s directions for tightening down the rings after removing the jars, not Presto’s instructions not to tighten the rings. I expect they meant the Ball type rings with metal lids.) So why am I so sad? There is ONE reference that I found on the product page to the removable liner being coated in PFAS-free ceramic. Everything else says stainless steel, stainless steel, stainless steel. Well, I don’t know how it happened, but somehow between the time I took my canner out of the box new and three days later, I’ve got a big chip or flaked-off place in the bottom of the canner. Did the stainless steel rack somehow bump it when I was removing the liner to wash it? Is that spot just a defective “made wrong” coating point that sort of broke off and floated away under pressure? A product this costly should not have a chunk of coating come off after a few canning sessions. What’s underneath does NOT look like stainless steel; it’s whitish. Who knows what it is? Is it going to affect the longevity or sensing capability of the product? (My guess: yes.) Is it going to get into my canning jars? (My guess: no, but possibly.) Have I contacted customer service about this yet? To be honest, the idea of packing up this great big canner and hauling it across town to the UPS store to return it is unbearable, and I know full well that’s what they’ll say I have to do. I would have to ask a neighbor to go with me because the box is too big and heavy to handle myself. So that’s my review. I LOVE the canner. I don’t think I could bear to be without it now that I’ve used it. But I am not at all happy that it has this irritating chipped/flaked off/whatever flaw and really wish the Presto people would somehow reach out to me and make me whole.

Thus pressure and water bath canner is amazing! Very easy to use and the screen tells you step by step directions.

Love it! Doesheat my house on a hot Day! Never had a jar not seal. I highly recommend this for anyone who has a fear of a pressure canner. It’s sooo easy with this. I use it weekly. With meat getting so expensive I buy on sale and can one jar meals or whatever else.. it was expensive but I have no buyer’s remorse lol

Love it once you get used to programming it. It is so easy no anxiety that you’re gonna blow up your canner on the stove. Freeze up your stove put it on the counter a sideboard. Just so convenient and easy to use.

Arrived insanely fast. The canner itself is amazing and super easy to use. Pretty much a set and forget in comparison to tradional types. I wish I had five of these things

Had a broken jar, upon inspecting I notice that one rubber foot was missing from my canning rack. Contacted Presto via email. 2 days later, their customer service dept advised that they would send me a new rack. Excellent customer service and product. Wife is a beginner canner and love this. 2025/09/27 Being in contact with Presto for a couple of weeks now concerning my Presto. On my last day of canning, it malfunctioned and water steamed out of canner. Took all my quarts out of canner and unplugged it. While doing so, heard a sound inside canner. Unscrewed bottom panel and a fuse felt on counter. The fuse came from the electronic card inside canner. Immediately contacted Presto via email. After several communication exchange, I was told that my canner was not warranty in Canada. With the price paid, was very much disappointed.

So easy to use. I love it. I have been sitting on the fence with this for a couple years. Do I purchase this or not. Pressure canner to me, is intimidating, but I had heard that this one, easy to use. Okay. I noticed it had gone down in price and I decided to bite the bullet !! ordered it and used it the next day to water bath can. I was anxious, but, I followed the cheat sheet instructions, and wow !! Super easy, start to finish. Now I will use it to pressure can tomorrow and feel comfortable that it will be a "set it and forget it" till it beeps to let me know its done. This has opened the door to all those recipes that I put aside because I was scared of pressure canning. If you own an instant pot, you will have no problem. Same kind of idea only bigger kitchen appliance. Thank you, thank you.