Peeling tomatoes

[Liberty]

I'll never, ever use the old method of dropping tomatoes in boiling water, then cold water to remove the skins. That's one unnecessary, time-consuming and dangerous step removed from the process.

Recently someone here mentioned that you could core fresh tomatoes and freeze them, so I did, in hopes of canning them when I had enough to make it worthwhile. Today I let the bags of tomatoes thaw in the sink and voila! The skin fell off in my fingers. Wow! That is SO much easier.

Thank you so much to whoever posted that method. Whodathunk?

[willowlady]

What type of tomatoes were you freezing? I'm only going to get a few at a time, and that sounds like an awesome idea.

[Liberty]

Big Boys, Better Boys and Rutgers.

[Animal Lover]

Groan. When I think of how many I did the old fashion way Your way sounds wonderful now that my family is all grown up.

[Green Man]

Isn't that a huge load on your freezer? How much energy does it take to drop in boiling water for a few minutes, retrieve and let sit for a few minutes before easily removing the skins?

[pogonip]

Best part is, after peeling, all the water drains out of the tomatos when they thaw, so you don't need to use extra energy to reduce them for sauce.

[silvertop57]

We dont peel tomatoes at all for a thick juice or sauce wash tomatoes and core cut in half and place in blender blend until no chunks are left pour in tomato cone colander run mallot around and its done. My cone has a stand so I place it directly over my kettle and just dump the juice in all thats left is the seeds.No waste.

[peekaboo]

You can do the same thing with peaches.

[hunybee]

just a thought about those skins:



nutritionally, there is a huge amount of good stuff in the skins. perhaps save those skins and dry them, then powder them in the blender and save for making sauces and other things

[carol b]

That is a great idea, Huny. Thanks!