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Default how the hell do I dice 500 tomatoes?

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> On Oct 25, 3:56?am, "GUINEAGiusi" > wrote:
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>> > Yeah , right... for a couple dozen tomatoes... let me see your fingers
>> >> > > after those 500 tomatoes. Oh, they fell off. LOL

>>
>> >> Just wear rubber gloves. That way your fingers can stand more
>> >> heat
>> >> and the hotter the water is, the easier the skins slip off the
>> >> tomatoes.

>>
>> > Obviously you never peeled tomatoes.... has nothing to do with heat
>> > because after blanching the tomatoes need to be plunged into ice water
>> > or you ain't gonna peel anything, so the tomatoes will be cold... but
>> > after about two dozen tomatoes your fingers will ache so bad from
>> > peeling bits of skin they'll go numb, they'll feel like they fell
>> > off.
>> > Sheldon

>>
>> How the hell do you think people have canned hundreds of quarts or liters
>> of
>> tomatoes every year since home canning was devised? They do NOT leave
>> the
>> skins on.

>
> Because they're not making fresh salsa... canned tomatoes are cooked
> until their skins essentially fall off by themselves, you brainless
> GUINEA!
>
> Sheldon


No, they are not. They cook in the bottle as they are processed. I watched
my mother do it, my neighbors in the US and now those in Italy. They peel
the tomatoes, put them into the jars with salt, seal and process. If you
cooked them before canning them, they would fall apart.


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