Canning Meat Anyone?

[Kessler]

For what it's worth, and no, I am not recommending that you do or try it. I am just stating what I did.

I canned some boneless turkey in May 2011. Today I opened the jar and made sandwiches out of it. I drained the liquid, heated the turkey in a cast iron skillet, added BBQ sauce and mashed the meat up while mixing the Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce. IT was great!

So, my point is, I know that my turkey (and chicken, pork and beef) if canned properly, will be edible over 5 years from now.

I do remember some of the C-Rations I ate while in Vietnam in '64-'65 were dated back in the thirties.

[kickstand]

I think that I had some of your turkey....at a Subway shop.

[W.Lynn]

I ate my share of c-rations, no telling when they were canned either, but I ate them until I couldn't even get them at the surplus stores any more.

And I do can meat, we're still eating the pork loin I canned years ago.

[Cwi555]

If it's done right, it will last a very long time.
Edit; and stored right.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/arctic-explorers-uncover-60-year-old-food-stash-180956936/

Also suggest using this search string in google;
The steamboat Bertrand was heavily laden with provisions when it set out on The Missouri River in 1865