[Aidy]

It's that time of the year again 
Had two crops of me plum toms Amish Paste +a few salad to make the passata for winter.
Thus far 58 portions (2.5 ladles portion) in the freezer and still loads to come.
Did a batch last night / this morning.

[Yorkie]

Lovely 

How do you deskin the tomatoes?

[Aidy]

So basically...
Slow roast the toms for a couple of hours and leave over night in the stock pot.
Then in the morning I use a food blender to whizz then passed through a sieve.

I am toying with buying a Rigamonti 'Velox' or the master which is bigger as I know someone with one and they say it is so easy to do it.

[snowdrops]

Snap, that’s what I’m in the midst of doing, except they’re in the fridge, all 12lbs of them. They’re waiting to be blitzed & sieved or I might try out the passata maker machine I picked up in a charity shop a couple of months ago for £2.50 . The only difference is I will can mine to add to the pantry shelves

[madcat]

So basically...
Slow roast the toms for a couple of hours and leave over night in the stock pot.
Then in the morning I use a food blender to whizz then passed through a sieve.

I am toying with buying a Rigamonti 'Velox' or the master which is bigger as I know someone with one and they say it is so easy to do it.

It is!  It completely changed my passata game - putting it through the sieve was getting very old with the quantities.  I've got the Velox and I'm a real fan.  Took a while to work out a way to do it and the various dishes to collect the passata and the waste. I poach the toms lightly in a big frying pan of boiling water so the skins come off easily, then just squish them in the machine.  Put the waste back through a second time and it is absolutely great.

[Growster...]

Like the idea of a special machine!

I've just been zapping the toms in a standard blender, and then reducing them down to puree status in a big pan, and it seems to work, skins, white bits and all! 

[Aidy]

Thanks Madcat, pretty much sold to me now.

How much do you do at a time? As you can see from my photo that is an average picking, I guess the Velox would cope with that, am I correct?
Cheers

[Aidy]

Just made another 8 pints of passata, bit different this time as I bit the bullet and bought the Passata machine from Seeds of Italy.

WOW. How quick and easy was that  Why oh why did I not buy one of these before
cant wait for the toms to ripen now. So so so glad I couldn't buy tickets for Oasis  money well spent I say.

[mumofstig]

It's what I've always recommended since 2011 and it does make a huge difference doesn't it 

https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=82201.msg918774#msg918774

[snowdrops]

Snap, that’s what I’m in the midst of doing, except they’re in the fridge, all 12lbs of them. They’re waiting to be blitzed & sieved or I might try out the passata maker machine I picked up in a charity shop a couple of months ago for £2.50 . The only difference is I will can mine to add to the pantry shelves

Forget that, I found out why the passata maker was at the charity shop….it was rubbish lol, it leaked all over everywhere, should really have had a seal/gasket in it, but no room for one. So I looked at the ones you all mentioned but sat in my basket is the one that fits on my Kenwood chef except I need a bit to put in the ‘hole’ to adapt it to fit as my machine is a few years older but there’s non of tge adapters in stock