I do my canning outside on one of those propane fired deep fryers that they use for deep frying turkeys at Thanksgiving. I started using it because I didn't want the house having to use extra air conditioning to cool down from the heat being added to the house from the canning. It is great! If you don't own one perhaps you can borrow one from someone. We actually found ours at a yard sale. A friend of ours went out and bought hers specifically for this purpose after seeing me use mine. My extra large canning pot doesn't fit on it so I just use the pot that came with it after cleaning it really well. Ann in TN