Ridgerunner
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Some people just pop whole tomatoes in the freezer. I don't. I grow a lot of the big beefsteak so they are not perfect. They always have some bad spots that need to be cut out and I can't do that when I thaw them. They are too mushy to core and trim efficiently for me, though some people on here have posted they can do it if they get them before they fully thaw. That's too complicated for me.
I core and trim the tomatoes and freeze them in gallion sized zip-lock type bags. When I take them out, I just put them in a big sauce pot and thaw them, slowly at first but hotter after you get some juices. I stir constantly. Use a long metal spoon to stir. The wooden ones will break when you are first getting started stirring. I pick out a lot of the skin when they are thawing. It comes loose and sort of curls up but you can burn your fingertips learning a technique to pick that skin out.
I always either go through a food mill or Squeezo strainer. I have to to get the seeds out or my wife can't eat it. That gets the skins I miss too.
Editted to add: You'll find we all do these things differently. It's not that one is right and the others are wrong. We just do things differently.
I core and trim the tomatoes and freeze them in gallion sized zip-lock type bags. When I take them out, I just put them in a big sauce pot and thaw them, slowly at first but hotter after you get some juices. I stir constantly. Use a long metal spoon to stir. The wooden ones will break when you are first getting started stirring. I pick out a lot of the skin when they are thawing. It comes loose and sort of curls up but you can burn your fingertips learning a technique to pick that skin out.
I always either go through a food mill or Squeezo strainer. I have to to get the seeds out or my wife can't eat it. That gets the skins I miss too.
Editted to add: You'll find we all do these things differently. It's not that one is right and the others are wrong. We just do things differently.