How to make sauce in 28 steps or so..... by dfrobbins ● portfotolio

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dfrobbins: Step 1. Start with fresh, ripe tomatoes

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dfrobbins: Can never have enough fresh ripe tomatoes

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dfrobbins: Step 2. Inspect and wash each tomato to ensure there is no dirt, bad spots, or damage

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dfrobbins: Step 3 - cut out any bad spots

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dfrobbins: Step 4. Separate the cleaned tomatoes and get them ready for boiling

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dfrobbins: Step 5. Load cleaned and inspected tomatoes into the boiling pots

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dfrobbins: Step 6 - Add just the right amount of water and get tomatoes ready for boiling

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dfrobbins: Step 7. Place pots on the burners and bring the tomatoes to a boil

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dfrobbins: Step 8. Bring tomatoes to a boil - watch that the water does not overflow

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dfrobbins: Step 9 - Stir the tomatoes to ensure even boiling

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dfrobbins: Step 10. Make sure you have enough propane and pots to scale the operation

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dfrobbins: Step 11. Hire people with lots of experience

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dfrobbins: Step 12. Try and pass along years of experience to the next generation. Expect mixed results.

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dfrobbins: Step 13. After tomatoes are boiled, remove strainer and drain to remove as much of the water as possible

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dfrobbins: Step 14. Scoop boiled tomatoes into the tomato strainer/press machine

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dfrobbins: Step 15 - Use a hand press to feed boiled tomatoes through the strainer/press

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dfrobbins: Step 16 - Ensure there is not too much water being extracted

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dfrobbins: Step 17. Ensure you capture the skins and seeds to feed back through the press to get every drop of sauce out of the tomato's

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dfrobbins: Step 18. Feed the skins through 2 times

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dfrobbins: Step 19. Ensure you don't overfill the sauce pots

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dfrobbins: Step 20. Freshly strained sauce ready to be boiled and jarred

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dfrobbins: Step 21 - Prepare fresh basil from the garden by washing and drying it

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dfrobbins: Ensure the basil leaves are separated and cleaned

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dfrobbins: Step 23 - Get the basil leaves ready to place in the empty sauce jars.

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dfrobbins: Step 24 - Place the cleaned and dried basil leaves in the sauce jars

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dfrobbins: Step 25 - Ensure there are plenty of jars ready to fill with the boiled and strained sauce

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dfrobbins: Step 26. - Boil the strained sauce and add salt

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dfrobbins: Step 27. - Strain the sauce again to ensure no seeds or skin made it through and fill into the jars with the basil leaves

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dfrobbins: Step 28. - Vacuum seal the jars and let cool slowly overnight