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Default Tomatoes - faulty measurements?

On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 3:07:55 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:00:30 -0800 (PST), Lenona <
> wrote:
> >I made about a gallon of spaghetti sauce last night and I'd say it tasted very good. Just the right amount of pepper, for one thing.
> >
> >The recipe called for 18 tomatoes. I only had cans of diced and crushed tomatoes.
> >
> >Here's the weird part. When I googled, it said that there are two large or three medium tomatoes per pound, which certainly sounds right. But...when I asked how many tomatoes are in a 28-oz. CAN, it said...TEN tomatoes!
> >
> >How can there be more than six?

> This is ridiculous and so are you. lol. You cannot figure this out??
>


Not very polite. Since even WHOLE canned tomatoes are submerged in juice, it never occurred to me that they would REMOVE juice, just to add more tomatoes!

Obviously, tomato paste is a different matter entirely.


Lenona.