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Originally Posted by semi_lucid
"100 pounds of raw tomatoes (before processing through tomato mill) equaled 6 gallons of raw sauce"
That would be 16.66 pounds per gallon. I would guess the raw sauce would weigh around 8 pounds per gallon, so that tomato mill must be removing 8 pounds of something.
Is it removing skins? Water? I don't know what a tomato mill is.
Edit. I didn't see the post above when I posted.
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No problem! The mill puts out the seeds, etc. on one chute and the debris-free tomato sauce out another chute. I get a big bunch of skins, seeds, etc that I have to dump. There is also some water in the debris bucket. I usually run the contents of the debris bucket through the mill once more and quite a bit of juice/sauce comes out of it second time around.
This is why I like Costoluto Genovese for sauce...it comes out practically finished through tomato mill and requires very little "cooking down" to reach optimum sauce consistency. I like a really thick rich tomato sauce for my Marinara.