Canning Food

The french revolution changed the way France worked. The neighboring countries went to war with France because they didn’t like how France operated now and that meant the french needed a big army to defend France so the french drafted 10000 men to help defend France but as you can probably guess that is a lot of people to feed especially since they are on the borders of France and therefore the middle of nowhere so it was hard to get enough food. General Napoleon had supposedly fixed this problem since he always had about half of his army out looking for food but an attack from the Italians showed the problem that his plan had. The Italians nearly defeated the french but failed. If they had had all of their men and not had half of them foraging and hunting it would not have been such a close call and less of their men would have died. Napoleon had been offering a lot of money for anyone who had an idea for how to store more food or make more food faster but after the near disastrous attack by the Italians he near doubled the amount of money he would pay for an idea. Around this time a man was experimenting with ways to preserve food. He was a chef so he had access to all types of foods. He did all kinds of experiments with all kinds of foods which eventually led him to the canning process. The canning process is very simple but effective. You put whatever food you want in a mason jar then fill it with water, screw the lid on snugly but not to tightly or else it won’t work then put the jar in boiling water. The water inside the jar or can boils since all the water around it is boiling so the water turns to vaper and evaporates out the lid creating a vacuum sealing the lid on. The boiling kills all the bad micro creatures that make the food go bad and the vacuum makes sure no micro creatures get in the food. The chef gave this to Napoleon, got the money and owned a company that still makes canned food today.