On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:55:35 +0800, JBurns >
wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:28:47 +0200, "ViLco" > wrote:
>
>>Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> Where did you find such a thing? I never see anything like that in
>>> this area. Not that I would likely buy it. Canned tomato products
>>> can be bought for cheap here. I do have canning supplies but it just
>>> doesn't seem very cost effective to can, given all the time involved
>>> and the other supplies I would have to buy.
>>
>>Better jarring than canning, it's easier: all you need is a 20 bucks mill
>>and some jars, which can be jam/marmalade jars so they don't cost you a
>>cent.
>>My mother uses and old crank operated one, it's the one in the upper right:
>>http://www.borghiprogettoenologia.it...Id=2229.htm l
>>My sister has one with an electric engine attached, like the bottom one in
>>that picture.
>>In both of them you add tomatoes from the top, tomato sauce will drop down
>>from that perforated conical exaust on the left while the peels and seeds
>>will exit the cone from the tip.
>>
>>Saturday, if my GF won't be able to come to town I'll be helping mom and
>>sister in a conserva day: from 8Am to 6PM boiling tomatoes, pressing them
>>through the mill, jarring them and boiling the jars, then the next day we'll
>>remove the jars from the big pot. Just tomato, salt and a tablespoon of EVO
>>oil on top, nothing else, not even a leaf of parsley or basil. That's what I
>>call conserva, or plain tomato sauce.
>
>That is basically what I have done with the bulk of the tomatoes,
>except I have added about a 2 tablespoons of lemon juice per litre for
>acidity. Do you think the EVO on top would aid in preservation, as in
>excluding air?
>
>I could have done with a food mill, I peeled and seeded them all by
>hand.
>
>Julie's comment about it not being worth it when expense and time is
>taken into account just does not make sense. I had everything except
>the tomatoes (which cost $3.00) and I was not doing anything else that
>might bring in income. Factoring in time expense is silly unless you
>are forgoing income making activities or paying someone else to do
>what you would normally being doing instead of making tomato sauce.
>
>JB

I agree. In recent years I have canned, dried or frozen the things
from our garden. Purchased some things when I found a source with a
good price, or maybe pick your own. Before we had room for a garden a
group of us would get together and find a farm or orchard and each buy
whatever we felt we could handle. I remember getting a call from a
local farmer at 7 am to see if I still wanted the 100 ears of corn I
had asked. When I said yes he said he would go pick them. He also
had you pick strawberries.

To me the best thing about preserving my own is that I know exactly
what I put into it. If I don't want salt in some of the vegetables I
don't add it. I also know if the produce was sprayed or not and if so
when and with what.

Got to go out in the back yard and see how many Roma beans I can pick
this morning.
--
Susan N.

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