On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:04:09 +0300, Opinicus
> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:27:04 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
> >>>Conversely, tomato paste is a concentrated form of tomato sauce.
>
> >> Nope... sauce is seasoned, paste is just tomato.
>
> I wondered when someone was going to catch that. In villages here in
> when tomatoes have become dirt cheap in late summer you'll still see
> houses whose slightly pitched roofs are completely covered with ripe
> tomatoes laid out on plastic sheeting. The fruits are left there until
> most of the mosture has evaporated. I'm not sure what the finishing
> steps are but I know they include mashing-up and salt. The resulting
> tomato paste is some of the densest and most delicious you'll ever
> find. Because it's salted it keeps better than the store-bought kind
> but it's still more than we could ever use, hence the tubes.

Catch what? It was a simple answer to someone who couldn't figure out
that tomato paste is concentrated tomato. Anyone who reads a label
can figure out the rest. As far as Janet using sauce instead of
paste, again so what?


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