Such a simple thing and, for me, a complete godsend.\u00a0 I like to store enough tomatoes to last us the year.\u00a0 This year we planted 300 tomato plants.\u00a0 Canning is so much work for tomatoes.\u00a0 And I’d have to can them in gallon size jars.\u00a0 Half of the tomatoes have individual weights of 2 pounds!\u00a0 And where would I even put all the giant jars?\u00a0 And all that blanching.\u00a0 I’d be blanching for days.\u00a0 Actually, I was still blanching tomatoes to store in the freezer when a friend of mine, Diane, told me that I can freeze the tomatoes with the skin on.\u00a0 She told me that the skin slips right off when they thaw.\u00a0 I clutched my pearls and gasped.\u00a0 Well, she was right.\u00a0 All I had to do was core them and move on.\u00a0 Love that woman.\u00a0 No more ice baths and standing for hours over a pot of boiling water.\u00a0 Needless to say, I was still stabbing myself in the hand with a paring knife when I came across this lovely little gadget.\u00a0 I can process so much faster now and with way less mess.\u00a0 Now if I just had another chest freezer…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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