? On freezing tomatoes

[Duncanpup]

What would you recommend freeze them whole or sliced i never tried this before and thank you in advance.

[notemason]

1. Don't think it matters; I quarter mine to save room in the bag.

I also like to remove the peels before freezing.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. I usually take the skins off first then cook them down a little bit, say simmer 1/2 hour

Then pour into containers or freezer bags and freeze for use for chili or soup.

To take the skins off, cut the top stem part off. Score an X on the bottom of the tomato with a knife. Just cut through the skin, not through the whole tomato. Dip tomato into a pot of boiling water deep enough to cover the whole tomato, leave it in the water for about 1-2 minutes, remove, and the skin from the bottom will start to peel right off you can then proceed to peel the whole thing. Discard the skins. They will be hot when you take them out of the boiling water, so use a slotted spoon and wear gloves.

I’m sorry this is time consuming, but tomato skins in frozen tomatoes to me is yucky.

[Nittersing]

3. They'll only be good for cooking...

so it doesn't really matter. I chop them and store them flat in a baggie.

[KatK]

4. I chop roughly

I remove stem and any marks, chop in about 1" pieces, pop in labeled freezer bag, remove as much air as as possible, seal, then freeze.

I like them chopped because then I can just dump them into whatever I'm making.

[rockbluff botanist]

5. I froze 10 gallons of my home grown vine ripe beauties

Hi Duncanpup. I love your posts!


Last tomato season was fantastic! Bumper crop x2.

I dip the tomatoes very briefly in boiling water to remove the skins. After removing the skins, cut the tomatoes in half and remove the seeds with a spoon. Put the tomato halves in a colander and finish processing all the tomatoes. Place in a freezer bag and press out as much air as possible. Flatten the freezer packages as much as possible.

I'm still using the frozen bounty. We love Italian.

[twodogsbarking]

6. I take the core out of the tomato with a spoon. Drop the tomatoes in boiling water until the skin cracks.

Then into the sink of cold water. When the cool enough to touch squeeze out the juice and seeds.
The tomatoes will fall out of the skin. Chop or not, drain more if you like. Place in plastic freezer bags and freeze. They don't take up much space
and are recipe ready. You can freeze them whole in bags but they take up too much space and are a pain to clean when you are ready to use them.

[lastlib]

7. My mother the old farm girl never froze tomatoes.

She always canned them. I don't know her exact procedure, but I think she boiled them and peeled them before putting them in the canning jar whole--never sliced or chopped.

[Emile]

9. Loretta doesn't like freezing them because it takes up

freezer space. So she mostly cans them in mason jars.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I remove skins and freeze whole. I make soup with them.

[japple]

10. I always canned tomatoes for soup, chili, and spaghetti sauce, just as my mother and grandmother

did before me. We peeled, cored and heated them up to boiling and put them in sterile quart jars with 1 tsp of salt and 2 TBSP lemon juice. Then we processed them in a water bath canner. They always maintained that rich tomato taste.

Had to give it up due to arthritis. Can't lift those heavy pots any more. I sure miss the home canned tomatoes, but store bought canned tomatoes are pretty good, esp. the Italian varieties.

[Duncanpup]

11. Japple I love canned tomatoes and homemade bread with butter.