The Canning Machine is the kitchen and fuel station of Industrial Craft 2: one block that cans food, loads uranium Fuel Rods, moves fluids between containers and enriches liquids, all while drawing just 1 EU per tick from a low-voltage feed of up to 32 EU per tick. The Canning Machine's recipe costs seven Tin, one Electronic Circuit and one Machine Block. In canning mode the Canning Machine packs any food into Tin Cans: the canned food stacks to 64, restores 1 hunger point plus 3.2 saturation per can, is eaten faster than regular meals, and cans made from different foods stack together because every can comes out identical. Canning mode also loads uranium fuel into empty Fuel Rods for the Nuclear Reactor.

The two tank modes turn the Canning Machine into a fluid pump: the drain mode empties buckets and fluid cells into the left tank, and the fill mode pumps liquid back into containers or refuels the Jetpack directly. Fluid Enrich mode mixes the tank's liquid with an item from the center slot — water plus lapis becomes reactor coolant, and the same mode produces biomass and construction foam. Overclocker, transformer, energy storage and ejector upgrades fit the Canning Machine's upgrade slots, and a Bronze Wrench lifts the Canning Machine without breaking it. The empty Tin Can returns after every meal, so one stack of cans keeps a whole base fed indefinitely.