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Blanch and Peel Tomatoes

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How to can tomatoes..fun and easy

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What happens here

Fill a large pot with water and bring it to a rolling boil. Carefully lower a batch of tomatoes into the boiling water for approximately 30-60 seconds, or until the skins begin to split. The ideal blanching water temperature should be between 150-190°F (65-88°C). Immediately transfer the blanched tomatoes to an ice bath to stop the cooking process and cool them down, making the skins easier to peel. Once cooled, use a paring knife to remove the loosened skins and core the tomatoes, removing the stem end and any hard white parts. Discard any remaining damaged sections.

Goal: Blanch the selected tomatoes in hot water to easily remove their skins, then core them using a paring knife.

Tools and materials

  • Kitchen Thermometer
  • Large Bowl or Basin
  • Large Pot
  • Paring Knife
  • Slotted Spoon or Spider Skimmer
  • Healthy Tomatoes
  • Ice
  • Water

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kitchen and preserve these all right we've got our water hot in our big pot back here so that we can go ahead and start blanching tomatoes and blanching basically is heating up the outside edge of the tomato let me put this over here so what I mean by blanching the tomato is dropping it in that hot water for 30 seconds and pulling it out you don't want to cook the tomato you want to blanch the tomato you don't want to cook it because you will waste whatever cooks you want to cook it about two millimeters below the surface of the skin and that way when you get to working with the tomato the skin just goes whoop and it just pops right out and we'll just pop them right into the jars it's gonna be cool let's show you what we're doing Stoney Ridge farmer kitchen tip these are pot holders these are what you put flower pots on well we use these in our kitchen for putting hot pots and pans on so we can set them on the counter so we're going to take our sterilization pot and we're going to set them on these little pot holders they're made out of cork you can get them at Walmart or whatever this is what we use so we're going to set this guy to decide get him out of the way for safety sake and will slide forward our blanching pot now for blanching we're gonna get you in closer so we're gonna take the lid off of our blanching pot and we're just gonna take our tomatoes and we're gonna gently drop them over into this blanching pot and we want to do similar size Tomatoes all together we want to go fast with it so we gots to move we got to get done we got to get busy dropping these guys in there gently don't just drop them from way up here set them down in there gently and be smart about it okay we're about 30 seconds is all we want this water is probably a hundred and ninety degrees it's not quite boiling yet and we want to test one out I want to kind of grab it nope it's not ready absolutely not ready this one starting to seem a little bit ready get these guys nice and blanched actually gonna probably shouldn't have done that using a special little spoon for dipping these guys out so that the water drains right out of it okay this one is ready to rock all of them are ready to rock so let's set them out of here all right we don't have to be too awfully gentle with these guys right now we can get to rocking and rolling with them don't get too far ahead of yourself don't put all your tomatoes in one blanching cuz you'll cook them you won't to have time okay now for the…

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