Canning frozen tomatoes. A great way to process the harvest on your own schedule.

hey y'all today i cleaned out the freezer from um some of the tomatoes that i put in there this summer it's hunting season so i really need to free up some freezer space for the deer mate so um what i did this summer i didn't have time to process all of these tomatoes this summer so i just i washed them a lot of them i cored them and popped them in these freezer bags so i probably have 25 to 30 pounds of tomatoes in these bags and well i've already emptied a couple of bags in this pot so that that took up a good bit of my freezer space so now that things have slowed down in the garden and there's really nothing coming in other than greens um it's a good time for me to pull these out of the freezer and let them fall and tomorrow when everything's thawed and um [Music] ready to go i'm gonna i'm going to put up some tomatoes so what i do is i just um pour all these tomatoes in the pot it'll take these won't be ready for me to process tonight it'll take a while for these to fall out so i'll just come in here every so often and stir them just to kind of um move them around this is this is rock solid hello but the thing i love about this technique is i don't have to pour boiling water on them to get the skins off of them since they've already been in the freezer when they stall out the skins are going to crack and they're just going to peel off and everything will be good to go and be ready for me to process some canned tomatoes so i'm just going to go through here and empty these in my pot and empty them in the prop and i'll just cover them cover them with a dishcloth on the crop i'll cover the crock with the dishcloth and then i'll cover my stewpot with the lid while everything's falling out oh this is so easy this is so easy and you can see this took up a lot of room in my freezer so it's gonna be nice to free up some freezer space um for when we start harvesting our our deer feels gracious i may have to get another big pot maybe i can fit all these in here one of the reasons i think i'm gonna like this technique is with my old technique i would put my tomatoes in a the clean sink and then pour boiling water on them to scald um the skin so they would fall off and i and i know you're gonna be losing some of the good healthy juices you know in that sink when you're doing that but this way this technique all my juices are going to be in my pot so i'm not going to lose any of the good vitamins i'm not going to lose any of the juices from the tomatoes so i'll just leave this sitting here this is going to soften up as it thaw so i'll squish them down come through and stir them today and tonight and sometime tomorrow they'll be soft enough they'll be thawed enough for me to actually process them and do some canned tomatoes so goodness gracious that's a lot of motors it freed up a lot of freezer space so all right so i'm done with this project for the day and i'll check back with y'all tomorrow after these have thawed enough for me to actually make some tomato sauce out of them y'all i'm gonna tell you putting the tomatoes in the freezer is a game changer for me with canning tomatoes um it was nothing to it they're thought enough and now look at all that good yummy juice in there these are thawed and now i'm just going to go through them and pull the peels out put them in my compost bin um and then i'm gonna i'm gonna be ready to can these big bad boys this is so much faster than the way i used to do them i would recommend coring the tomatoes before you do this next time i did about half of minecord and half of them with the core still in but one of the good things about um that is a thor burn terracotta i can tell by looking at that one it's supposed to be that color supposed to be orange like that one of the great things about using this technique for canon tomatoes is it makes it it cuts the process down and probably half the time it normally takes me to peel the tomatoes and it lets me be able to to can my tomatoes when i have time on my own schedule so those little white looking things i couldn't take those out those don't those don't look very appealing to me so i'll go ahead and take those out of there so look at that how easy is that a beautiful tomato that's been cored frozen and now the skins just come right off and whatever skins i miss getting off they'll float to the top when i'm actually processing the tomatoes so i wash these real well before i put them in the freezer bags and cord about half of them if you want to i don't i don't get the seeds out of my tomatoes um i just like i like them being in my tomato sauce so you can just squeeze them like that and get all the pulp out [Music] y'all can skip this step if you want to you can leave your tomatoes whole i just like to get mine kind of juicy some people don't really like chunks of tomatoes and their soup and stew so this is your own preference i don't always do this step so for my pints i put a half a teaspoon of canning salt in the jars and for my quartz i put a whole teaspoon of canning salt in the jars so y'all make sure you clean those rims off well nothing makes you more sick than to have tomatoes that ruin because you didn't clean those rims off and you didn't get a good seal i've learned that the hard way y'all oh looky there y'all that is some yummy looking tomato goodness right there oh that's got my mouth watering y'all [Music] oh look at that little bit of summer goodness in a jar y'all like and subscribe and we'll see y'all next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Keywords: canning frozen tomatoes, tomato canning, winter gardening, tomatoes

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Length: 9min 18sec (558 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 23 2022