Food canned tomato paste

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Faroe

Un-spun
Just a reminder. These don't store well. Opened up bucket #100 from 2011 for a jar of molasses. YIKES! Mold on everything. Ran the bucket out onto the porch - will deal with the bio-hazard mess later. Glass jars of food look ok (minus the paper labels), but all the cans are a loss.

I'll be going through our entire bucket collection this week, and isolating everything containing canned tomatoes. I love tomatoes. I stored a lot of cans. :(
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
BTDT

Two to three years for tomato paste in cans. The acid in the paste starts to eat at the lining and even if the can doesn't bulge and split it tastes like crap. So that is definitely an item you want to rotate. I've thrown out a lot in the past myself.
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

TB Fanatic
I really don't even use tomato paste or sauce anymore. And I've never stored cans in buckets. I do have quite a few cans of diced tomatoes and I've started dehydrating them. And I do have tomato powder. Everything I have in buckets is dried foods in mylar. And anything I have in mylar also has 02s in them.

God is good all the time

Judy
 
SouthernBreeze

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Hfcomms said:
BTDT

Two to three years for tomato paste in cans. The acid in the paste starts to eat at the lining and even if the can doesn't bulge and split it tastes like crap. So that is definitely an item you want to rotate. I've thrown out a lot in the past myself.
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Agree. I store only what I think I can use over a two year period. Always in rotation. Any longer than that, it gets "iffy". Smaller cans of paste don't take up as much room as larger cans of tomato sauce. I buy by the case, and they're easy to stack. I use it a lot. I've never tried tomato powder.
 
Kathy in FL

Kathy in FL

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Stephlin's Mountain: Turn Tomato Powder into Fresh Tomato Paste. Or Sauce. Or Juice.

Turn Tomato Powder into Fresh Tomato Paste. Or Sauce. Or Juice.


So after yesterday's post, we all know how super simple it is to make tomato powder. Right?

Now, what do we do with tomato powder? Of course, it could be added into your cooking as is. It also could be incorporated into any pre-made dry mixes you might wish to make. (I have some "rice-a-roni" ones I'll share with you sometime.) Today, however, I'd like to show you how quickly and easily you can turn that powder into fresh tomato paste. Or sauce. Or juice. (You get the idea.)


In order to reconstitute your powder into paste or sauce, you just need to add a bit of water. Whether you want paste or sauce, it's all about the ratio. One part powder + one part water = paste.


And one part powder + three parts water = sauce!


Though I didn't make any juice, the recipe I have is 1 tsp. powder + 1/2 cup water. Of course, you are the chef, so the consistency of any of these is really up to you.

No more tomato paste tubes! Or, no more opening a can of either paste or sauce and only using half of it! No more added salt or chemicals! And the flavor of this is intensely * deliciously * tomato-y. (Like how I did that?) If you're lucky to be using tomatoes from your organically grown garden, there's the added benefit of no pesticides involved. Need I say more?

Here's a pinnable pic to sum things up. Enjoy!
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Faroe said:
Just a reminder. These don't store well. Opened up bucket #100 from 2011 for a jar of molasses. YIKES! Mold on everything. Ran the bucket out onto the porch - will deal with the bio-hazard mess later. Glass jars of food look ok (minus the paper labels), but all the cans are a loss.

I'll be going through our entire bucket collection this week, and isolating everything containing canned tomatoes. I love tomatoes. I stored a lot of cans. :(
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BTDT, well Orion Commander did anyway, this fall. Lost a lot of canned goods. Glad he checked on our inventory, it's all been sorted now and replaced with reasonable amounts, no more planning for five years, 18 to 24 months is more reasonable now, for us anyway.
 
SouthernBreeze

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
packyderms_wife said:
BTDT, well Orion Commander did anyway, this fall. Lost a lot of canned goods. Glad he checked on our inventory, it's all been sorted now and replaced with reasonable amounts, no more planning for five years, 18 to 24 months is more reasonable now, for us anyway.
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Yeah. I rotate through my complete inventory on an 18 month to 2 year basis, except for our long term storage foods that have a shelf life of between 25 and 30 years under proper storage. Even keeping things in rotation, I have lost a few cans of kraut, tomato sauce, Spam, and canned milk along the way.
 
Cag3db1rd

Cag3db1rd

Paranoid Pagan
Oh no. I made ketchup and canned it up last year. I had planned to work through my stockpile of storebought b4 using them.
 
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summerthyme

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Cag3db1rd said:
Oh no. I made ketchup and canned it up last year. I had planned to work through my stockpile of storebought b4 using them.
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You don't can in metal cans, do you? Home canning in jars is the best way to store tomato products.

I will say that homemade ketchup is best used within 2 years. It tends to darken badly after that...

Summerthyme
 
kyrsyan

kyrsyan

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Cag3db1rd said:
Just glass. I don't even know how to use metal cans.
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I have home canned ketchup and salsa. Both last for years just fine in home canning jars. I might start canning a Rotel copycat this year. But I love that I can play with the flavors. And for ketchup, I drastically reduce the sugar so you can actually taste the tomato and spices.
 
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