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Cooking & Baking

rockbluff botanist

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5. I froze 10 gallons of my home grown vine ripe beauties

Reply to Duncanpup (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2024, 04:10 PM

Sep 2024

Hi Duncanpup. I love your posts!

Last tomato season was fantastic! Bumper crop x2.

I dip the tomatoes very briefly in boiling water to remove the skins. After removing the skins, cut the tomatoes in half and remove the seeds with a spoon. Put the tomato halves in a colander and finish processing all the tomatoes. Place in a freezer bag and press out as much air as possible. Flatten the freezer packages as much as possible.

I'm still using the frozen bounty. We love Italian.

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? On freezing tomatoes [View all] Duncanpup Sep 2024 OP

Don't think it matters; I quarter mine to save room in the bag. notemason Sep 2024 #1

I usually take the skins off first then cook them down a little bit, say simmer 1/2 hour Diamond_Dog Sep 2024 #2

They'll only be good for cooking... Nittersing Sep 2024 #3

I chop roughly KatK Sep 2024 #4

I froze 10 gallons of my home grown vine ripe beauties rockbluff botanist Sep 2024 #5

I take the core out of the tomato with a spoon. Drop the tomatoes in boiling water until the skin cracks. twodogsbarking Sep 2024 #6

My mother the old farm girl never froze tomatoes. lastlib Sep 2024 #7

Loretta doesn't like freezing them because it takes up Emile Sep 2024 #9

I remove skins and freeze whole. I make soup with them. sinkingfeeling Sep 2024 #8

I always canned tomatoes for soup, chili, and spaghetti sauce, just as my mother and grandmother japple Sep 2024 #10

Japple I love canned tomatoes and homemade bread with butter. Duncanpup Sep 2024 #11