Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> Omelet wrote on 15 Dec 2006 in rec.food.cooking
>
> > The seeds can be tossed outside where they can sprout in the spring. ;-)
> >
>
> My neighbours wouldn't like me just growing tomatoes willy nilly on my
> lawn.

They won't grow if you mow... probably not many will even germinate.

> The benifit of canned is that you know what it'll taste like before you start...wIth
> fresh crushed, no 2 tomatoes taste the same.

That makes no sense, no sense wyhatsoever. You telling us you use only
one tomato separately for each tiny batch of sauce... if you blend
many tomatoes together (in whatever you're cooking) how pray tell can
you know which tomato tastes different?!?!? Canned tomatoes are no
different, they're processed in huge batches so all the canned tomatoes
from one lot number will taste exactly alike. But a different lot
number will taste somewhat different, but from the same canner so
slight a difference that very few could tell anyway.... generally
commercially canned crushed/sauced tomatoes are a blend of different
tomatoes, that's what they do with the imperfects (which most are
btw).... the perfect tomatoes are those used for canned *whole*
tomatoes, that's why they cost a little more.