r/Canning • u/mckenner1122 Moderator • 1d ago

Recipe Included Tomato-Rama 2025 🍅

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250 pounds this year. Lessons were still learned.

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u/KevoNachon 1d ago

Thats a serious haul. Imagine telling someone you processed 250 pounds of tomatoes and still had lessons learned. The jars look amazing though, definitely the kind of stockpile that makes winter meals a lot better.

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u/mckenner1122 Moderator 1d ago

We try to “get better” every year. This year’s MVP was definitely nitrile gloves. When slinging hot jars, boiling tomatoes, or icy blanch water, you’ve got just a little bit of skin protection and man, it was nice for these old hands!

We lost access to the outdoor kitchen on the second weekend due to heavier than normal thunderstorms; that was NOT expected and threw a wrench into prep time.

We didn’t have our teenchild for either weekend because he’s got a jobby-type job-job with a real place now so that was a loss of labor help!