Comments on: CANNING TOMATOES : PART TWO

By: 365 : 1 at make something

365 : 1 at make something — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:24:03 +0000

[...] i just started getting into it last year with pickles, canning tomatos and jam, but there is so much more to [...]

By: Dee Wilcox

Dee Wilcox — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:52:06 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing the oven-roasted idea! I’ve canned so many jars of sauce and salsa, and I have something like 8 pounds left to preserve. We have a home garden, and the rest of our tomato crop is ripening in boxes on our counter. Definitely going to try this idea as they ripen up!

By: Yoli

Yoli — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:39:21 +0000

I need something more easy to preserve tomatoes, because gas in Guatemala (my country) is very expensive. I saw once ago like broiled tomatoes and looked so tasty, I didn´t try them.
Thanks

By: Marianna Bonetti

Marianna Bonetti — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:10:33 +0000

Hi, I bottle my tomatoes in the old type quart soda bottles. First washing the tomatoes then boiling them for a short time, and then putting them through this electric machine that seperates the skin and seeds from the juice. Next I put the juice in the quart bottles and cap them, then put them in a boiling water bath. I did this two weeks ago and this week found two bottles broken in the cellar where they are stored. One bottle the cap blew off the bottle broke as well and perhaps the second bottle broke from the pressure of the first breaking. Would you know why the bottles may burst?

By: Lisa Pijuan-Nomura

Lisa Pijuan-Nomura — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:48:19 +0000

Karyn,
wow,
i think that the tomoato expedition is amazing and a little cuckoo, in the bestest way possible!
honestly, it’s incredibly inspiring. i might even do it next year!

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:34:06 +0000

Ohh! PLEASE have this class again next year so when I am a bona fide Canadian I can take it too…
Also, for all getting into canning/preserving can I recommend a dehydrator? We had one when I was growing up and I lived off natural fruit leathers, dried fruit and dried yoghurt for years.
Seriously, dried yoghurt is like candy, it gets chewy and sweet and you can freeze it and then it gets kinda crunchy…so good.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:03:53 +0000

When the ketchup is cooking on the stove, the entire house fills with a rich, savoury ketchup aroma. Delish

By: Karyn

Karyn — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:06:43 +0000

Jill – I can’t wait to hear how your canning goes. i feel very proud of my results, though i have yet to taste them!

elk & adele – thanks!

shin ae – The way Gayla told us to do the roasted tomatoes is super simple. Just slice them in half and sprinkle with coarse sea salt. Put them in the oven at the lowest temperature and bake them for 10 hours. I put them in before I went to bed and took them out in the morning. I left them in longer than 10 hours because they still seemed moist. The next night I put them in at 200F and that seemed to work better.

miss crowland – i honestly don’t remember how i figured out how many pears to use for the recipe last year. i think i just tried to estimate five pounds. this year i’ll write it down. i’m not sure if fiesta farms sells jars, i bought mine at home hardware. let me know if you find out that they do.

By: miss crowland

miss crowland — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:57:11 +0000

By the way, I don’t live too far from Fiesta Farms…do they sell jars there as well??

By: miss crowland

miss crowland — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:54:47 +0000

I just looked at your pear jam recipe. I have a pear tree in my backyard that is bursting right now…how many pears make up 5 pounds?