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>>Yeah, it does make me wonder how long one of these gaskets sits on a 
shelf these days with fewer and fewer people canning....


Shouldn't make a lot of difference, I'd think, so long as the gasket remains 
sealed up in its package and isn't exposed to light or temp extremes.

One of our pressure canners is a very old one that belonged to my 
grandmother.  It has eight big threaded knobs that tighten down the 
gasketless lid.  Still works fine.  The others use gaskets.  Maybe my 
imagination but the gaskets available now of days don't seem to be nearly as 
good as the ones I remember from past years.  They don't last as long and 
more than once a new gasket has failed to seal and needed replaced before it 
was ever used.

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