Canning tomatoes
Got a pretty good deal on some tomatoes or at least less price than I can grow them. I started this morning around 9am and by 3pm they were sealed in jars. I ended up with 21 quarts of juice and 17 quarts of whole tomatoes with the skin removed. I don't know what kind of tomatoes they are, but they are juicy and have a good taste. The wife is visiting relatives this week in NW Arkansas, so cleanup is on me which is usually the hardest job. If the SHTF I am ready.
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Looks good. My mom used to have cases of canning jars stacked to the ceiling in the back room. Green beans, tomatoes, potatoes just about everything we grew in the garden she canned or packaged and froze
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Looks good. My mom used to have cases of canning jars stacked to the ceiling in the back room. Green beans, tomatoes, potatoes just about everything we grew in the garden she canned or packaged and froze
That's the way we grew up and still live, seldom is money spent on eatable food items here and it makes for big savings. The last several decades of additives / harmones / preservatives plus the country of origin I think should concern all.
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Wow, great job. Good looking tomatoes.
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Nice!
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That's a lot of tomatoes! I have never have canned them. But would like to know how... Have plenty of quart jars and seem to bring home new ones I find in free boxes. Even have a few antiques I'm proud of. Useable history...
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Nice congrats on a job well done
my parents and in laws well basic all our families all canned just about every thing, it was a way of life for generations even my wife and I use to can a lot of stuff but it became to easy to go the store and buy a can of any thing for about a quarter ( back then any way when on sale I remember 4 or 5 cans for a dollar was not uncommon ) I know we still have some canning jars but nothing like we use to have
I also remember stringing up green beans to dry to make them last ( as a kid mom would give us 3 cents or so for each string we managed to get
but doing it at home you knew what you had where it come from
I admire any one still putting the effort into it its a laybor of love and saves money if done right
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Looks like you have beef on the hoof right outside your window.
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A lost art. We did 77 jars of jam. We give a lot away but ask for the jars back.
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Toolman286: 30002865085083/comments/30002882300955
Looks like you have beef on the hoof right outside your window.
Yep, around 90 cows. I have two very lean grass fed 600 lb. dressed out calves in the freezer. I don't want no old cow or fat azz calf as the meat is low quality.
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elubsme: 30002865085083/comments/30002837957275
A lost art. We did 77 jars of jam. We give a lot away but ask for the jars back.
A lot of work, but worth it. It has no additives and all organic. Unreal the difference in taste compared to the store-bought.
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Very Nice, Sir.
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Some critter got in our garden this summer and ate a bunch of our tomatoes, all of our muskmelons, and some of our watermelons. It looked to me like it might have been a possum. I put up a 6' tall fence when my wife wanted to start a garden years ago. My intent was to keep the deer out of the corn, and it worked. But the little critters bent up the lower wires on the fence and got in that way.
Joe
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Based on the first picture, I'd say they are Roma tomatoes, best ones to use for making salsa and red sauce (gravy) for pasta imho.
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Looks great!!! I used to put up at least 10 cases of canning tomatoes each year. We would use them for everything....we always ran out. Its funny because I don't can anything at all these days, but I don't eat the things we used to when we had the canned tomatoes readily available. I used to LOVE putting them up. I was not all that fond of canning with the big canner....that thing scares the crap out of me.
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So @KenK/84Bravo do you disagree on them being Roma, or the best for what I said? You are entitled to your opinion but for a member that has posted many times about others owning up to their disagrees, I wonder what yours was for?
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Looks amazing!
You can make things out of the canned juice, like chili starter/marinara/ whatever your needing.
Good job, it's addicting.
My wife's family used to make fun of me for doing "woman's work".
My grandfather taught me young, and then left me all of his canning supplies in his will.
I'm teaching my daughters. I was a prepper before that was a thing, I guess
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Locust Fork: 30002865085083/comments/30002852281883
Looks great!!! I used to put up at least 10 cases of canning tomatoes each year. We would use them for everything....we always ran out. Its funny because I don't can anything at all these days, but I don't eat the things we used to when we had the canned tomatoes readily available. I used to LOVE putting them up. I was not all that fond of canning with the big canner....that thing scares the crap out of me.
Kasey, are you referring to a pressure cooker?
At 15 when my mom passed away, I became the families chief cook and bottle washer. I was making some kind of boiled dinner one late afternoon in her old pressure cooker on top of the stove. Made the mistake of unscrewing the lid without releasing the pressure!!!! I was lucky that I escaped injury but had cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and pork to clean off the ceiling and out of a lot of nooks and crannies! Another lesson learned from my School of Hard Knocks education!
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So @KenK/84Bravo do you disagree on them being Roma, or the best for what I said? You are entitled to your opinion but for a member that has posted many times about others owning up to their disagrees, I wonder what yours was for?
I hit it by mistake. I went back and deleted it. I was unaware I had. I operate off of a Tablet. If you just touch the screen without realizing it, it does what it does.
(And) Yes, if I hit disagree (knowingly) I own up to it and say why.
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Another good canning tomato is Amish paste. Similar to a Roma but bigger.
My mother and her sisters would only can Rutgers tomatoes.
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Brookwood: 30002865085083/comments/30002889310235
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Kasey, are you referring to a pressure cooker?
At 15 when my mom passed away, I became the families chief cook and bottle washer. I was making some kind of boiled dinner one late afternoon in her old pressure cooker on top of the stove. Made the mistake of unscrewing the lid without releasing the pressure!!!! I was lucky that I escaped injury but had cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and pork to clean off the ceiling and out of a lot of nooks and crannies! Another lesson learned from my School of Hard Knocks education!
Yes!!! I used to water bath can the tomatoes.....but to put up almost all the other things it had to go in the big pressure cooker to seal properly. My grandmother had a small pressure cooker that she would cook beans and such in regularly....it had a little weight that would pop up and down letting out steam like a locamotive engine. I loved watching it and hearing the little hiss hiss sound. So, I eventually found one and tried cooking lima beans in it. WOW....that was a mistake. It looked fine, the steam wasn't coming out of the hole in the top when I took the weight off. I twisted the arm of the handle over to ope it and it exploded......LIMA BEANS EVERYWHERE. It burned a line across my tummy where the steam hit me....not terrible, but no fun at all. The beans had clogged the steam hole and I had no clue. I never pressure cooked another thing.....gave my canner away along with that evil contraption. I'm not doing anything but waterbath from now on....unless the end of civilization comes.
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Yes!!! I used to water bath can the tomatoes.....but to put up almost all the other things it had to go in the big pressure cooker to seal properly. My grandmother had a small pressure cooker that she would cook beans and such in regularly....it had a little weight that would pop up and down letting out steam like a locamotive engine. I loved watching it and hearing the little hiss hiss sound. So, I eventually found one and tried cooking lima beans in it. WOW....that was a mistake. It looked fine, the steam wasn't coming out of the hole in the top when I took the weight off. I twisted the arm of the handle over to ope it and it exploded......LIMA BEANS EVERYWHERE. It burned a line across my tummy where the steam hit me....not terrible, but no fun at all. The beans had clogged the steam hole and I had no clue. I never pressure cooked another thing.....gave my canner away along with that evil contraption. I'm not doing anything but waterbath from now on....unless the end of civilization comes.
I felt exactly the same way about having a fear of a pressure cooker! It took a few months before I pulled the old contraption out of the lower cupboard and used it again. Like riding a horse, if you don't get back up on it after it throws you, you'll not only never ride one again but keep the fear inside you for life.
My dear old dad RIP instilled this in me way back when and maybe about the time I had that bad pressure cooker happening.
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