Canning Tomatoes: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

[@thehometownhomestead]

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[@LisaTurek-px9jc]

From this laundry magician.... Use a bar of Ivory soap and cold water. Scrub the material where the stain is between your fists UNTIL THE STAIN YELLOWS. At that point you can spray virtually anything on it and it will come out. Does not matter if the stain is 5 minutes old or 50 years old. There has never been a stain I could not remove!

[@thehometownhomestead]

This sounds worthy of the first round attempt! Your confidence is giving me HOPE! Thank you!!

[@LisaTurek-px9jc]

@@thehometownhomestead . You are very welcome. You got this!

[@stephencameron1709]

Great job! Sauce looks wonderful. I agree with trying peroxide, massage into fabric, let it sit a few hours, then launder. The other option I rely on is to wet the fabric, then massage lemon juice into the stain and finally let it sit in the sunshine. Letting fabric with the lemon juice on in the sun helps to lighten and remove stains. Wash on delicate and line dry. Hope this helps Val C

[@thehometownhomestead]

Love the lemon juice idea! Thanks for sharing and I’ll make sure to update with the final results soon. Thanks for watching!

[@janisraytik845]

Try using Fels Naptha laundry bar soap on the stain, oxystain powder while washing and hang on a line in the sunshine. Thats my go to for any stain. My grandsons play baseball twice a week. Baseball dirt and grass stain can be a bugger to get out. But this regime works every time 😊

[@pnwusa]

thanks for the great share for the different ways of preserving tomatoes and cucumbers. and to begin removing the stain, a water diluted peroxide solution to gradually remove it and then dabbing peroxide at full strength to make it disappear. hoping for the best for you. continued blessings.🕊

[@thehometownhomestead]

Thank you so much for the tip! I’m nervous to start working on it, but I will be really happy when it’s gone! Time to get started!

[@pnwusa]

@@thehometownhomestead i get that! hoping you are stoked about it soon.

[@lisapop5219]

I let my tomatoes thaw almost entirely and peel the skins. I definitely do it in the sink so I can warm my hands. A lot of the water comes out so they get cooked less

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@lisapop5219 I’ve done that in the past but I heard that dumping the water off vs cooking it down can change the acidity of the final product, so I started doing it this way. That said, your way is definitely quicker and easier, and there might not be much to that concern. Thanks for watching!

[@carolclarkson4859]

Sauce looks great. I'm wondering about freeze drying the sauce and salsa.

[@thehometownhomestead]

Ahhhh, I’m behind the times on the freeze drying info, although I have visions of one next year. Do you have one already? If so, do you love it?

[@butteryum]

have you tried putting peroxide on that stain? it works like bleach, but isn't quite as destructive as bleach. might be worth doing a small test spot on the stain to see if it makes a difference before treating the entire stain.

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@butteryum this is a fabulous idea. I haven’t tried it yet. Thank you for the suggestion!

[@healthyliving9601]

I used all my tomatoes and made spaghetti sauce in the crockpot last night. Hopefully my family likes it. 😅

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@healthyliving9601 I feel you on this one!!! 😬 I’m sure it’s fabulous. Thanks for watching, and I hope to see you back soon!

[@kareneakers9540]

I use shout on everything of mine that has stains and I let it set for about 15 minutes and it works great

[@thehometownhomestead]

Thank you for the advice! I’m anxious to get the beauty cleaned up.

[@marieparks5674]

Years ago I bought a Victoria strainer which was hand cranked but worked great, I just canned sauce, then I could make whatever

[@debbienossavage7419]

if you have dirty eggs, can you still leave them on the counter until ready to use? washing at that time of course😀

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@debbienossavage7419 yes, just wash before using!

[@cindypoling5922]

I buy vintage linens, and I have luck with oxy clean and line drying in the sunshine.

[@thehometownhomestead]

I really appreciate your input!

[@robinhart1390]

What’s the white powder you put in your jars before the tomatoes?😊

[@thehometownhomestead]

It’s citric acid. It helps to make sure they have the proper pH for canning. I usually use lemon juice, but was out!

[@villagesteader3552]

I’m got tomatoes cooking down right now. This might be the last load of tomatoes for us, I already have over 100 quarts and about a dozen pints. Apples will be next! About your stain, have you tried peroxide? Bleach? I would try but think Q Tips not the washing machine. Of course test a small part of the stain. Have clean water handy and something to blot with. Proceed with caution. It looks like the fabric is in great shape. Can’t wait to see what happens! ♥️👍🙏🤓

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@villagesteader3552 I still have tomatoes coming in, but I’m growing excited for the first frost date, if you know what I mean… 😬 I’m going to try your options. Thank you for the suggestions. I’ve tried Puracy stain remover, which works super well most of the time, but have been too scared to use any sort of bleach.

[@villagesteader3552]

@@thehometownhomestead I used to manage a lingerie store and people would get lipstick and makeup stains on thing like robes and pajamas. I would use these methods for spot cleaning. This was a high end boutique and to not try to remove stains could seriously cost thousands of dollars a year, so not at least trying wasn’t an option. The truth is it may not budge at this point, however if nothing works you could find a experienced seamstress or quilter to repair your quilt by carefully cutting out the stain and replacing with an in damaged piece taken discreetly from somewhere else in the quilt.

[@marieparks5674]

If you can’t get the stain out, fashion a patch to go over it

[@erincallaway3792]

If it’s blood which it looks like dry blood use hydrogen peroxide. I used to work in a dialysis center and that’s what we put on our clothes when we got blood on it.

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@erincallaway3792 this is a great tip! Looking forward to trying.

[@Loretta12]

melaleuca prespot

[@user-gt1co6xd5d]

I have a saucemaster and the tomatoes need to be cooked and then put through the device. You can not put them through raw. It is not a juicer for raw veggies. Give it another try.

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@user-gt1co6xd5d I knew someone would have the info. This device had no such directions, sadly. So you just cook them and then put them through? Is there any real advantage over cooking them down in a roaster like I did in this upload? It seems like an extra step if I have to cook them first.

[@user-gt1co6xd5d]

@@thehometownhomestead if you blend them the seeds remain. If you put them thru the sauce master it removes the seeds and skins. I then dehydrate the seeds and skins to make tomato powder. I use this like tomato paste. We didn’t like seeds in our tomato products.

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@user-gt1co6xd5d I agree with that completely. I dehydrated my skins a couple years ago and still have some left.

[@ritasnider2998]

Hydrogen peroxide gets out blood stains. Since it’s old you need to soak and hand scrub probably several times but eventually it will come out.

[@thehometownhomestead]

@@ritasnider2998 thank you for the encouragement that even old stains can be tackled! Hope to see you back soon!

[@alisavanaken8171]

Seventh Generation stain remover I swear by

[@agathareimer2924]

I got a stain out of our quilt with shout stain remover. Hope something works for you.

[@thehometownhomestead]

Thank you for the suggestion!

[@janemccowan2655]

Try hydrogen peroxide