Tomato freezing methods

[LPS]

Good morning all of you tomato raisers.  I used to blanch my tomatoes then pull the peelings off and freeze them.  Sort of a bag of mush but perfect for soups and stews.  A couple of years ago the wife just threw tomatoes in a freezer ziploc bag and froze them.  How easy is that.  They look nice too.  Still works to throw in a soup or stew or hot dish.  Now I wonder if it is worth the time to go through the blanching.  I suppose a guy gets more in a bag when they are blanched.  What do yous guys do?? 

[glenn57]

so, when i got a whole bunch of extras, i wash them off, cut out bad spots and run them thru a food proccessor. i try to just get them chopped up so it dont take much. i then take a cake pan, spray it with pam, pour the maters in the cake pan. freeze it. when froze i stick in microwave for about a minute, this loosens it up from the pan. throw it in bread bags doubled up and throw back in the freezer.

[LPS]

Good idea Glenn..  I'm not sure I am OK using the Food Processor while home alone and without the wifes Supervision!   

[Rebel SS]

I do the blanch thing, 'cuz I don't want icky skins after being frozen throughout my food.

[LPS]

 Good point.  Ok I am on it boys. 

[glenn57]

I do the blanch thing, 'cuz I don't want icky skins after being frozen throughout my food.

big baby!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

They get stuck in yer teeth and stay there!  Who wants to eat a buncha stingy 'mater skins?!

[Jerkbiat]

We just throw them in a ziploc freezer bag and into the freezer. When we take them out we just run them under hot water from the faucet and the peels come right off. Works easy enough for us. No peels to get stuck in your teeth.

[Rebel SS]

I shoulda said ones that are coarse chopped or chunked up.....maybe it was stoopid to do that to 'em with the skin on. Glenn, shut up! 

[LPS]

I ended up doing the JB method.  Brought all of the red ones in from the garage where they have been ripening.  Rinsed them off just took the top of the stem area off and put them in Freezer Zip Locks.  Got 7 qts.  Actually fun.  Hunter, fisher, gatherer that we all are here. 

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[Rebel SS]

Weren't you doing the "paper wrap" thing? I can't remember....

[LPS]

No this worked pretty darn easy.  Hot as heck here too so I didn't want to do the blanching.  If it was cold out I may though.

[Rebel SS]

I mean wrapping them in newspaper to ripen, and tuck away....I had posted on doing that to ripen green ones....

[LPS]

OH ya the paper wrap thing you told me about.  Sorry Rebs I didn't get it at first.  Yes I found a big flat box and I line it with old Outdoor News mags.  Then sit it on the deep freeze in the garage.  Lay papers over the top and it works great!!!  That flat full made the 7 qts that I froze.  Some of them were 2 weeks old and still just fine.