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Old October 8, 2011   #11
lakelady
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Originally Posted by brokenbar View Post
It's even worse when you dry them...you lose about 90% of weightwhich is why sun-dried tomatoes are so expensive.

And if you are using just any old tomato. it's worse too. The ones I grow (and my son) are dry-ish and have few seeds. I had a friend who picked about 10 lbs of tomatoes and thought it would be enough for 8 quarts. She thought "a pound equals a quart" was a fair estimate!

Somewhere I read a table of "how many tomato plants to grow to have X-amount of finished sauce" and it was way more plants than than I would have guessed.
Considering there are 2 lbs in a quart, your friend was a bit off on her calculations, yes? I have learned long ago when cooking or canning anything at all, it always takes more than I thought it did, so I buy/gather/grow more than I need for sure!
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