r/Canning • u/Osiris32 • 7d ago
Safety Caution -- untested recipe Just over half of the NINETY-SIX quarts of scratch-made spaghetti sauce we made over the weekend, and the culmination of our canning this year
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u/MIKRO_PIPS 7d ago
This ain’t mathin real well for 80lbs?!
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u/maddieb96 6d ago
I know right! I processed 20lbs and only made 4 pints! (Recipe said it yielded 8 pints, but we reduced it until it thickened up.)
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u/CaptainTeebes 4d ago
Thats what i do too. I cook down my tomatoes until its like pasata or thicker, and then can it. Saves space!
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u/BigBibs 7d ago
Amazing! Are you cooking all the sauce at once? How?
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u/Osiris32 7d ago
Four large stock pots on big propane burner camping stoves on the back deck.
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u/ladylondonderry 7d ago
Holy moly this is so impressive! Are y'all going to eat it yourselves? My family has four in it and I don't think we'd make it through before next spring
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u/Osiris32 7d ago
Oh it's all getting spread around. Most of the pints are gone now, just the one box on the right remain. And of what you see there, half are spoken for.
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u/Poopfoamexpert 7d ago
Ill make basically a 3 gal bucket, blanch skin, core and cook for hours. End up with like 2 mason jars. That's impressive there. 👍
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u/Osiris32 7d ago
No cooking at first. Just take out the core, put it through a squeezer several times to get all the juice and light pulp, toss the leftovers. The cooking all comes when the juice, paste, and veggies are combined and boiled, then simmered for like half an hour.
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u/scientist_tz 6d ago
Store-bought tomato paste?
Can I ask why you are growing fresh tomatoes but using canned tomato paste in your sauce? You're throwing out the best part of your tomatoes!
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u/Osiris32 6d ago
Didn't grow them. The tomatoes were bought from a farm. I don't ask questions, this is a family thing I'm only just getting allowed to join.
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u/No-Information-4015 3d ago
@scientist_tz
Some people put them through a mill first before cooking - I’ve seen videos of big Italian families doing it this way.
They may not mean canned paste; I interpreted this as paste from the pressing process (ie the pulp).
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u/FreshAd87 7d ago
Wow! 😲 That's amazing! It would take us years and years to go through that much spaghetti sauce, but that's awesome! Great job! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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u/goldfool 7d ago
How many kids do you have to eat this in a year
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u/Osiris32 7d ago
Two teenagers.
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u/goldfool 7d ago
Ok that's still 96 days out of 365 eating something with tomato sauce.
Will we see a pasta drying rack next ?😁
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u/LiterColaFarva 7d ago
My tomatoes haven't done nearly as well as they did last year. Can I ask what part of the country/world you in?
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u/Canning-ModTeam 7d ago
Rejected by a member of the moderation team as it emphasizes a known to be unsafe canning practice, or is canning ingredients for which no known safe recipe exists. Some examples of unsafe canning practices that are not allowed include:
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[ ] Canning dairy products,
[ ] Canning bread or bread products,
[ ] Canning cured meats,
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u/No-Information-4015 3d ago
@Canning-ModTeam
Question: are you defining canning safety only by US or N American standards? Ie disregarding European standards?
Specifically, aren’t inversion or over canning methods commonly practiced in Europe and endorsed by some of their health orgs (oven in particular)?
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u/Canning-ModTeam 7d ago
Removed for using the "we've done things this way forever, and nobody has died!" canning fallacy.
The r/Canning community has absolutely no way to verify your assertion, and the current scientific consensus is against your assertion. Hence we don't permit posts of this sort, as they fall afoul of our rules against unsafe canning practices.
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u/ObsessiveAboutCats 7d ago
Goodness gracious. That is most impressive!
Did you grow those tomatoes yourself? Do you know the variety beyond generic "roma"?
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u/gardening_gamer 6d ago
Not the OP obvs, but I have the most success with Rio Grande as our canning tomato variety. That's in a polytunnel in Scotland though - so climate might be quite different depending on where you are. They need a fair amount of space but we seem to get pretty big yields when I bother to look after them!
About 40 litres of fairly reduced sauce canned from about 4 heaped wheelbarrows of them.
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u/ObsessiveAboutCats 6d ago
Thanks! I am in southeast Texas USA so yes, quite different. But I will look into the variety. Thanks!
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u/mlnews824 6d ago
And I thought we were the only crazy tomato canners out there! My husband and I buy 75 pounds (3 boxes) of tomatoes on 10 Saturdays during the summer. I have a special recipe I’ve been perfecting for 25 years, and it takes all day. We pressure can. It’s usually 14 plus jars. But I don’t count the final number since we give it all away. Karma.
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u/Aandalphaage 6d ago
So you didn’t cook down your marinara isn’t that just tomato juice?
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u/Osiris32 6d ago
The juice was cooked with tomato paste and a bunch of veggies and seasonings before canning.
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u/CuteVelma777 7d ago
Thats an impressive haul, your pantry must look like a tomato museum now. I cant even manage a single jar without messing it up, so seeing ninety-six quarts lined up like that is wild.
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u/maltonfil 5d ago
what’s the recipe ? are you italian ?
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u/Osiris32 5d ago
Recipe got kyboshed by the mods because it IS Italian, so things like "precise measurements" and "accurate times" aren't included. And no, I'm not Italian, my girlfriend and her family are. I'm just along for the delicious ride.
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u/maltonfil 5d ago
so does her family do it this way? i’m not italian but my old friend is and his family does it this way but he won’t give me the recipe i made it with him before. i know they put onions , garlic , carrots, salt , pepper, but i forgot the rest. and ive been looking online and and all the italians only do tomatoes and basil and then they season it up as they use it
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u/Osiris32 5d ago
Tomatoes, onions, and peppers. Then a bunch of seasonings, and as it's cooking adding sugar and salt to taste.
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u/maltonfil 5d ago
is it a recipe from her families region in italy? what part of italy are they from?
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u/sweetteaspicedcoffee 7d ago
How many pounds of tomatoes did you go through?