third and final round of tomato sauce making

i felt i didnt get enough tomatoes or sauce this year, so i picked up a large amount of tomatoes from the farmers market


after mashing all the tomatoes thru the strainer, i ran the stuff that got spit out of the strainer thru again, and got even more tomato juice.


cooking down. i did run out of patience before it got as thick as the previous batch, but its still good enough.


taking apart the strainer


using a spatula to scrape off the good thick stuff




taking apart the strainer further. you can see the spiral inner piece all gunked up with seeds and skins. but with no more tomatoes to run thru, there is nothing to push the rest of this thru the strainer. so its the end and all goes in the compost bin.


the spiral piece with all the gunk cleaned off


chopping up onions and garlic to cook and add to the sauce once its been boiled down further


making progress


combined the remains to the two stock pots into one after cooking down


the lids, sterilizing in a bowl of boiling water that i boiled in the microwave and then spilled over my hand as i pulled it out of the microwave. my fingers in the blue cup filled with ice water. i went thru the rest of the sauce making with that hand in the cup of ice water. made for quite a challenge.


the jars of sauce boiling in the canner


10 jars of sauce. 6 of which came from this batch. you can see the white hard water stains on the jars. my water softener has been dead for years. mostly i dont care. after the jars cool i wipe the hard water stains off and they look fine.


one jar i accidentally put TWO lids on. oops. and BOTH lids popped separately! there were 7 pops for 6 jars. i didnt want to mess with it taking the second lid off since it seemed to seal fine.