In article >,
"Giusi" > wrote:

> "Sheldon" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> ps.com...
> > 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.

They shanghai the kids into helping peel. :-)
That is what mom always did...

She used to put up 50 to 100 quarts of tomatoes any year she was able to
get her hands on that many.
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