Canned Tomatoes

[lvdkeyes]

If you only have canned whole tomatoes and need chopped tomatoes, use a pair of kitchen scissors to cut them up while still in the can. It is much less messy that doing it with a knife on a cutting board.

[Kitchen Witch]

If using them in a sauce, stew, soup, etc. I do what my mom, gram, great gram, etc. always did - using your fingers - smash them while putting into the pan. They break real easy.

[lvdkeyes]

I used to do it that way too, but I have had tomato juice squirt all over the place. I tend to be messy, so I started using the scissors.

[Kitchen Witch]

: ) - that has to be funny to see! Sorry - but I had to chuckle with that one.

[lvdkeyes]

Funny until time to clean it up. Funnier yet, once a fiend at dinner replaced the ketchup cap but didn't screw it on. I always shake a ketchup bottle before I use is. You know "the rest of the story." (The late Paul Harvey)

[Kitchen Witch]

it's amazing how many things happen that could have been prevented!

this could make an interesting thread!