. >> reporter: add citric acid. >> a quarter teaspoon per height. >> reporter: leave about a half inchneed to have some room for the air to escape. >> reporter: pop out any air bubbles. >> then wipe your rims with a nice clean towel, put on the softened lid, right, and then you screw on the band fingertip tight. >> reporter: boil 50 minutes for raw pack or 40 minutes for puree. on the web site, you can just pick the letter of the food you want to preserve and it shows you how. linsey davis, abc news. >> what do you think, you're going to can or keep on food saveing? >> i use a little of both. the food saver, not to do a commercial but that thing works. my grandma used to can a lot. i really like they have these canned hot pickles. they're like pickles but they put some hot stuff in them. you get them out and they're really hot. >> i don't know what you're talking about but they sound good. >> they're just pickles but they're flavored hot, spicy. i don't know how they do it. >> maybe someone on facebook will write in. >> tell me h