Tomato Strainer
Imported Tomato Strainer
What do you do when your new neighbor gives you a ton of plum tomatoes that are already nice and ripe? If you are me then you pull out your tomato strainer and put it to use.
Top of Strainer
I’ve had mine for about 15 or more years at this point and I love it, I got it in a little Italian import store way back then. It is still shiny and bright and is made of stainless steel. If you go looking for one of these let me suggest you get the tallest one you can find, the shorter ones make it hard to get a bowl under the places where the pulp or skins come out. This one stands at 12 inches tall and I would like one even taller if there was one. If you can’t find one in a store in your area and would really like one then give EBAY a try, I saw them on there when I did a search a few minutes ago, I always try to at least find a place for readers to get the things I put here as they often ask.
Tomato Strainer
Mine has suction on the bottom that adheres it to the counter or a table, a lot of the others have a clamp that adheres them, for me the suction is better as my counters are too thick for the clamp to hold onto well, plus the fact that if I did adhere it with a clamp to the counter top there is only one place I would be able to work and that would throw off the flow to get into and thru the kitchen area, so I would be getting interupted often.
These strainers are very simple to use. You either take whole or cut plum tomatoes and put them into the hopper at the top and turn the handle, a few turns and you get one bowl of tomato pulp and another bowl filled with the skins and seeds from those tomatoes. When fresh tomatoes are in season and very ripe you get an amazingly fresh tomato sauce with the addition of some fresh herbs and a bit of onion and garlic and a quick cook to thicken it up a little. I make a little sauce as soon as I finish processing the tomatoes and then freeze the rest of the pulp for later use. You just can’t beat a nice fresh tomato sauce, and having the rest in the freezer all ready to go into sauces or soups is really handy and tastes so good in the middle of a cold winter spell.