Can I use my juicer to make tom sauce? Sieving is hard work!
If so, should I cook them first?
Our juicer is definitely not good for tomatoes, we'd waste far too much pulp. Once the mixture is cooked, I liquidise/food-process or Bamix it very quickly, then put it through a large sieve. It is really not that much hard work. Tip: use a ladle to work it through, that works much much more quickly than eg a wooden spoon. Same applies to sieving any soup, always use a ladle to push it through. And use a large flat-bottomed sieve if you can find one. Even with large quantities it goes through quite quickly.
Thanks for the tips, peanuts :D
We bought a passata machine this year http://seedsofitaly.co.uk/product/444 (http://seedsofitaly.co.uk/product/444) and it was a great help.
Pop the toms into boiling water for a few seconds to loosen the skins, then put then through the machine. We recycled the pulp to get the remaining juice out, and got a 79% extraction rate, which I think is pretty good.