Meanmom: thanks again. I had printed out the instructions from the tutorial I found (above) and just wrote your cutting measurements on it so I'll have that when I give it a try. You can a lot don't you (i.e. vegetables, jellies, etc)? My directions tell me to keep the sterilized jars warm until I fill them. How do you do that? I've tried keeping them in a warm oven in a roaster pan with a little bit of water (not in the jars but in the bottom of the roaster pan) but the jars tend to fall over.