Ideas for glut of tinned tomatoes?

sarahlouise210

studentphil wrote: »

Otherwise if you don't cut the top out you get that hard part where the tom links to the plant.

nope...never found any hard parts ...all soft and yummy from my tins!

studentphil

sarahlouise210 wrote: »

nope...never found any hard parts ...all soft and yummy from my tins!

It is a matter of personal taste I suppose.

Lyndsay_21

i sometimes have to cut the tops off and sometimes with the cheaper ones they're very yellow at the top. I chop mine in the tin with scissors.

Queenie

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

A few thoughts on the subject ...

Firstly, tinned tomatoes are evidently even better for you than fresh ones - the canning process increases or concentrates some beneficial chemical.

Secondly, buy the whole ones. For a start, they are slightly cheaper than the ready-chopped ones. Also, you can use the whole ones for things like full English breakfasts (Mmm - roll on tomorrow morning!) and chop them up for pasta sauces, etc. It is difficult to stick the ready-chopped ones back together again.

Finally, if you do decide to chop them up, drain off the liquid and do the evil deed in the can - this is much easier than chasing the slippery little ****ers around the pan!

Quicker and easier to use your kitchen scissors to chop them in the can then with a knife.

And don't forget, whizzing up a tin of tomatoes (whole or chopped!) in the food processor/blender gives you .... passata and much much cheaper than buying passata.

smitty2702

I confess, I prefer the chopped ones, If i chop myself its more uneven or goes to mush!! fine for pizza but i like a bit of bite to spag bol etc...

Claire

love_lifer

tinned tomatoes on toast, salt and pepper. excellent.

scrimperjan

I prefer the chopped ones; the juices seem thicker. If you drain the watery juice off the whole ones and then chop them there isn't as much left (sorry, I suppose that's obvious but you know what I mean). I don't eat them on their own anyway, but I use them a lot in pasta sauces, bolognese, chilli and so on.

Whichever sort you use in a sauce, a squirt of tomato puree thickens it up and adds more tomato-ey flavour, and tomato puree is also cheap & good for you. I think Tesco's is 27p for a biggish tube.

floyd

I make huge quantities of pasta sauce and freeze it to use as a base for lots of things but have discovered that the Sainsburys basics whole ones are far superior to any of the others I have tried (Lidl, tesco, Aldi, Costco organic, Asda). The juice they come in is much thicker so takes much less reducing to pass the 'spoon-standing-up' test and as a result you get more portions of sauce per can.
I used to buy the chopped tomatoes but they have far too many 'nubs' in them (the stalky bit), mind you once they are whizzed up in the pan you can't see them anymore

EagerLearner

Hmmm... In a blind taste test, Mr EL preferred the Sommerfield tinned chopped toms to the tinned Sainsburys ones (both value range)...

floyd

Ahhhhhhhh maybe I will try Somerfield then, not tried those ones, is the juice quite thick?