That's a good price for a presto. I've never used Presto but I ended up with a little cooker that I have never used. I've got to get with someone that has actually handled the gaskets to tell me how stiff they should be.
I can remember my mother canning in the sixties and I helped from the time I was 10 or 12 and did most of the actual operating of the canner by the time I was 14. I've never had am American Aluminum canner fail to seal nor did my parents as far as I know. That takes us back to the late Fourties. I've canned on wood, coal, gas electric, and outside on a fire in a cement block firepalce. As far as I can tell An American Aluminum or Presto canner will serve you well.
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