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Default how the hell do I dice 500 tomatoes?

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Sheldon > wrote:

> On Oct 25, 3:56?am, "GUINEAGiusi" > wrote:
> > "Sheldon" > ha scritto nel
> > ooglegroups.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.

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


Ugh.

You have obviously never canned tomatoes Sheldon!
Nothing could be further from the truth...
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