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Default how the hell do I dice 500 tomatoes?

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> Lets say you have 500 pounds of tomatoes hypothetically and want to
> transform it to salsa. Is there a machine that can chop them up nice
> and small, maybe even control the size of the dice too? My food
> processor is pureying (sp) them. I don't want to prep the tomatoes in
> any way other than removing the stem are and tip maybe.


When I worked at Taco Hell yonks ago, we had something like a
wall-mounted vegomatic-- it looked something like those wall mounted can
crushers, but with interchangeable blades (I think the one we used for
tomatoes was about 1/2 inch, and the ones for onions maybe 1/4 inch).

Here's a tabletop model:
http://tinyurl.com/q67s2 (3/8") or
http://tinyurl.com/msryn (1/2").


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